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Hanson Hanson is to close its brick factory in Caernarfon in May, with the loss of 50 jobs. 02-Apr-2008 Hanson Building Products is to close its brickworks at Stewartby in Bedfordshire next February, with the loss of 217 jobs. 30-Nov-2007 Hanson has acquired Structherm, the West Yorkshire-based supplier of concrete building systems. 04-Jun-2007 Hanson, the building materials group, has accepted a £7.8bn takeover offer from HeidelbergCement of Germany, which is expected to lead to office closures in the UK and US. 16-May-2007 Hanson has acquired Irvine-Whitlock, the Bedford-based brickwork subcontractor with almost 600 staff and annual turnover of £53m, for undisclosed terms. 12-Mar-2007 Hanson Aggregates has acquired an asphalt plant in Runcorn from Aram Resources for undisclosed terms. 02-Jan-2007 Hanson Building Products is to submit plans to centralise its sales and administration operations at its Stewartby brickworks in Bedfordshire by 2009, with the relocation of up to 200 jobs. 03-Nov-2006 Hanson has acquired Formpave, the Gloucestershire-based concrete block paving manufacturer, for undisclosed terms. 19-Jul-2006 Hanson is to close the Waingroves Brickworks in Ripley in June with the loss of 63 jobs. 16-May-2006 Hanson is in talks with unions over the future of 300 jobs at its Stewartby brickworks in Bedfordshire, having been given an ultimatum by the Environment Agency to reduce emissions by 2008. 27-Apr-2006 Hanson is to acquire Civil & Marine, the producer of cement substitutes with five grinding plants and four distribution depots, for £245m, as well as Material Service Corporation, the US aggregates producer, for £170m. 03-Mar-2006 Hanson Building Products is to acquire Red Bank Manufacturing, the Derbyshire-based terracotta clay and concrete company, for undisclosed terms. 25-Jan-2006 Hanson has acquired Thermalite, the manufacturer of aerated concrete blocks with 390 staff at production sites in Newbury, West Thurrock and Sutton Coldfield, for £120m. 08-Mar-2005 Hanson has acquired Marshalls Clay Products, the clay bricks division of Marshalls with sites in Yorkshire and Lancashire, for £65m. 05-Jan-2005 Hanson Aggregates is planning to shed 316 jobs and relocate a further 234 by next June, in order to consolidate its 23 sales offices into six and its 54 materials testing centres into one laboratory. 14-Oct-2004 Hanson is to close the Fagl Lane quarry near Wrexham next month with the loss of the remaining nine jobs, and environmentalists hope to transform the site into a nature reserve. 11-Mar-2004 Hanson has acquired Athens Brick, the US brick manufacturer with 90 staff, for £22m. 02-Mar-2004 Hanson is to close its Hanson TiS prefabricated housing factory in Manchester with the loss of 34 jobs. 27-Jun-2003 Hanson is to acquire Better Materials Corporation, the US aggregates company, for £97m. 17-Apr-2003 Hanson Brick is to close its brick factory in Buckley, North Wales, with the loss of 34 jobs over the next three months. 11-Feb-2003 Hanson has raised £79m from the sale of its 50% stake in North Texas Cement Company of the US to joint venture partner Ash Grove Cement. 19-Dec-2002 Hanson has paid £48m for five acquisitions, including Marshalls Flooring of Nottinghamshire, Small Lots bagged building materials of Kettering, the Red Bank soft mud brick factory in Leicestershire and aggregate operations in Spain. 02-Dec-2002 Hanson Building Products is to acquire a soft mud brick factory at Measham in Leicestershire from Red Bank Manufacturing for undisclosed terms. 09-Oct-2002 Hanson and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are planning to create a wetland nature reserve at a 700-hectare quarry near Cambridge over the next 30 years. 17-Jun-2002 Hanson is to acquire Choctaw, the US concrete pipes company, from Amatek for £92m. 30-May-2002 Hanson is to sell HBcE, its European brick manufacturing business, to Wienerberger for £39m. 20-Feb-2002 Hanson has acquired Centennial Concrete Pipe & Products of Canada from Lafarge for £41m, in order to strengthen its position in Ontario. 09-Jan-2002 Hanson is planning to spend up to £80m on bolt-on acquisitions this year and has confirmed plans to review the future of its European bricks business. 03-Aug-2001 Hanson is looking to sell its bricks division, which could raise up to £500m for the expansion of its aggregates business. 04-Jul-2001 Hanson has acquired Davon, the US aggregates and ready-mix concrete maker, for £66m, in order to expand its operations in Ohio. 05-Jan-2001 Hanson has sold its waste management business to Waste Recycling Group for £185m. 02-Jan-2001 Hanson has bought 14 UK operations from Tarmac for £33m, including limestone, sand and gravel quarries, a concrete plant and an asphalt plant. 13-Sep-2000 Hanson is to acquire Birchwood Concrete Products from YJL for £8.5m, and YJL is expected to use the proceeds to fund future acquisitions. 07-Jul-2000 Hanson is to acquire two US concrete pipe manufacturers for £89m - Cincinnati Pipe and Joelson Taylor. 12-May-2000 Hanson has agreed to sell off two quarries, 25 concrete plants, and three asphalt plants in return for regulatory approval for its acquisition of Pioneer of Australia. 05-May-2000 Hanson has announced plans to expand its building materials business by spending £188m a year on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in the US, the UK, Germany, Poland, and south-east Asia. 18-Feb-2000 Hanson is merging its UK concrete blocks, pipes and precast operations into a new division called Hanson Concrete Products, and is looking to expand the business through acquisition. 03-Feb-2000 Hanson has acquired two US companies - aggregates producer Olin Jones Sand and sand producer Brewer - for a total £34m. 10-Dec-1999 Hanson is planning to acquire Pioneer International, the Australian aggregates group, for about £1.5bn. 29-Nov-1999 Hanson is acquiring two US companies for £45m - aggregates producer BR DeWitt and concrete producer Superior. 16-Nov-1999 Hanson is to acquire the European brick operations of Boral for £59m, in order to strengthen its business in Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. 01-Sep-1999 Hanson is acquiring Tidewater Sand & Gravel, the US sea dredger, for £30m. 07-Jul-1999 Hanson has acquired FC Precast Concrete from Wilshaw for £3.7m, and plans to expand the concrete box culverts factory in Derby. 06-Apr-1999 Hanson is acquiring North American Brick Group from Jannock of Canada for £160m. 03-Apr-1999 Hanson has sold its 24% stake in Westralian Sands, the Australian titanium and zircon producer, to a number of institutions for £87m, as part of a strategy to focus on heavy building materials. 04-Mar-1999 Hanson is forming a more centralised corporate structure, changing the name of its 49 US companies to Hanson Building Materials America, and adopting a new logo. 20-Jan-1999 Hanson has acquired Tanah Raya Group, the Malaysian aggregates company, for £16m. 06-Jan-1999 Hanson is planning to spend about £180m on acquisitions next year, and is particularly interested in aggregates and concrete pipes in the US and bricks and aggregate recycling in Europe and Asia. 18-Dec-1998 Hanson has acquired Nelson & Sloan, the Californian cement and aggregates company, for £23m, as part of an ongoing acquisitions programme in the US. 03-Dec-1998 Hanson is acquiring Condux, the US concrete products maker, for $77m. 20-Oct-1998 Alfred McAlpine is selling its US aggregates and civil engineering operations to Hanson for £73m, in order to focus on UK construction and housebuilding. 08-Oct-1998 Hanson is planning to spend up to £700m on acquisitions to expand its US building materials business. 11-Sep-1998 Hanson is selling its US road paving operation to Colas of France for £55m and will use the proceeds to invest in its core activities. 22-Apr-1998 Hanson has agreed to sell its US road building business to Colas of France for up to $95m, and is close to selling its heavy construction business to Skanska of Sweden for $55m. 09-Apr-1998 Hanson has sold Grove Worldwide, its US crane making business, to Keystone for £380m. 12-Mar-1998 Hanson is acquiring HG Fenton, the US aggregates company, for £50m, as part of a strategy to benefit from the consolidation currently taking place in the US aggregates market. 18-Feb-1998 Emap Radio is said to be discussing the acquisition of Melody Radio from Hanson, but any such deal would probably come under close scrutiny from regulators as Emap already owns a London radio station. 07-Feb-1998 Hanson is in advanced talks to sell its Grove Crane manufacturing business to US buyers for £370m, and its UK commercial property interests to O&H for about £40m. 02-Feb-1998 Hanson is negotiating the sale of its Spectrum heavy construction and civil engineering businesses in the US to Skanska of Sweden, and also plans to sell the Spectrum roadbuilding business to Bouygues of France. 14-Jan-1998 Hanson has agreed an asset swap with Martin Marietta Materials in the US which will result in its Cornerstone aggregates business acquiring the Harding Street quarry in Indianapolis. 23-Dec-1997 Hanson is in advanced negotiations for the sale of its Grove Worldwide cranes business, which is thought to be worth about £360m. 05-Dec-1997 Hanson is said to have ruled out making a counter bid for Redland, the aggregates company facing a hostile bid from Lafarge, as it would probably cause a problem with the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. 16-Oct-1997 Hanson's US subsidiary, Cornerstone-Spectrum, is selling its stake in Koppers Industries, the producer of carbon compounds, for $52m. 15-Oct-1997 Hanson is planning to sell its Grove cranes business, which could be worth up to £400m. 01-Jul-1997 Hanson has sold Hanson Electrical to a management buy-out for £145m, and the business will be renamed Electrium. 15-Apr-1997 Hanson is acquiring Concrete Pipe & Products, the US concrete pipe maker, for £78m. 21-Mar-1997 Hanson is looking to acquire building materials companies, particularly in the US aggregates sector. 30-Jan-1997 Baggeridge Brick and Hanson Brick are both planning to lay off workers over the Christmas period in order to remove excess stock and maintain prices. 13-Dec-1996 Hanson has said it is not considering a trade sale of Eastern Group, the UK arm of its Energy Group which is being demerged in February. 12-Dec-1996 Hanson has put Melody Radio, the London radio station, up for sale at a price of about £10m. 02-Dec-1996 Hanson is opening Europe's longest brick kiln at Perwelz in Belgium, operated by its recently-acquired Desimpel subsidiary. 17-Sep-1996 Hanson, the industrial conglomerate planning a demerger, is to allocate most of its debt to the chemicals division, which will be renamed Millennium Chemicals. 17-May-1996 Hanson has sold its Seven Seas vitamin supplements business to Merck of Germany for £150m. 03-May-1996 Hanson has sold its 12.5% stake in the National Grid for £405m, and the shares are currently held by HSBC James Capel, the stockbroker. 02-May-1996 ARC, the Hanson subsidiary, has bought Boral Edenhall, the Cumbrian-based concrete blocks company, from Boral of Australia for £24m. 25-Apr-1996 Hanson has sold the remaining 122 Powerhouse electrical retailing stores in the Midlands and south of England to a management buy-out team. 07-Mar-1996 Hanson is to close 195 Powerhouse electrical retailing shops with the loss of up to 2,300 jobs. 03-Feb-1996 Hanson is to be spilt into four separate business areas later this year - energy, tobacco, chemicals and building materials, thus breaking up the major industrial conglomerate. 31-Jan-1996 Hanson has bid £125m to buy Desimpel Kortemark, the Belgian brickmaker. 30-Jan-1996 Hanson plans to start work on a £500m new town called Hampton, near Peterborough, in the summer, creating 5,200 homes. 29-Jan-1996 Hanson plans to raise over $2bn by selling Cavenham Forest Products and floating Suburban Propane to reduce debt. 21-Dec-1995 Hanson is planning to raise £2bn from the sale of non-core businesses, including Seven Seas vitamin supplements, Suburban Propane (US) and Cavenham Forest Industries (US). 01-Dec-1995 Hanson is buying the Powerhouse electrical retailing business from Southern Electric, Eastern Group and Midlands Electricity. 07-Nov-1995 Hanson has bought the Civil and Marine subsidiary of Bardon, a supplier of sea-dredged gravel and sand to the construction industry, for £72.3m. 03-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008