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Hays Hays has acquired James Harvard, the London-based recruitment company specialising in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, for an initial £24m. 28-Feb-2007 Hays is planning to open a further 15 recruitment offices and create 400 jobs over the coming months. 02-Mar-2005 Hays is to float its DX business-to-business mail service in November, in order to focus on its recruitment operations. 08-Sep-2004 Hays has sold most of its logistics business to Platinum Equity of the US for £102m, and is now looking to sell its mail division and the remaining logistics operations in the US and Germany. 27-Nov-2003 Northgate Information Solutions has acquired Hays Consulting & Solutions for £5.5m, and will close the Hays office in Milton Keynes with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs. 11-Aug-2003 Hays has sold its business process outsourcing division to Astron for £21m, as part of a strategy to focus on recruitment. 21-Jul-2003 Hays is to sell its information management services business to Iron Mountain Europe for £200m. 14-Jul-2003 Hays has announced plans to focus on its recruitment division by selling off its interests in logistics, document storage, back office processing and mail delivery. 05-Mar-2003 Hays is considering plans to sell off its logistics business, which has an estimated value of between £250m and £400m. 30-Jan-2003 Hays Distribution Services has reached agreement with Richardson Developments to set up a 260,000 sq ft warehouse at Merlin Park in Birmingham, which will create about 100 jobs. 24-Jan-2003 Postcomm has awarded a seven-year licence to Hays to deliver business mail across the country from January 2003, and TPG of the Netherlands has also won a postal licence. 24-Dec-2002 Hays has won a £30m contract to provide personnel services to Liverpool Victoria, including recruitment and training for 2,800 insurance and pensions staff. 19-Nov-2001 Postcomm has awarded a licence to Hays to start postal services in London, Edinburgh and Manchester, and is also considering plans to issue licences to Deya and the Business Post Group. 18-Sep-2001 Hays has sold its non-core chemicals business to a management buy-in team called Albion Chemicals for £107m, which will involve the transfer of 850 staff at 16 depots throughout the country. 31-Jul-2001 Postcomm has made a provisional decision to award three postal operating licences to Hays Business Group, which will include the collection and delivery of business mail in London, Edinburgh and Manchester. 17-Jul-2001 Hays is considering plans to sell its bulk and packaged chemicals business, which has an estimated value of between £80m and £150m. 18-Jun-2001 Hays Business Group has applied to the independent postal regulator PostComm for licences to operate three new business postal services, which would provide competition to the Royal Mail in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. 13-Jun-2001 Hays has won a contract from the Improvement & Development Agency to create an internet-based purchasing system to cut local authority spending by up to £4bn a year. 11-Apr-2001 Hays has acquired Argon, the French supply chain consultancy, for £6.6m, and has also announced a distribution agreement with i2 Technologies of the US that will enhance its e-commerce capabilities. 22-Jun-2000 Hays is to acquire QA Myriad from Skillsgroup for £31m, in order to expand its IT staffing division. 08-Jun-2000 Hays is expanding its recruitment agency business with the £22m acquisition of Sedi and MD Concept in France and Roozen & van Hoof in the Netherlands. 08-Feb-2000 Hays is to acquire EPS, the Banbury-based supplier of services to mobile phone operators, for £55m. 25-Jan-2000 Hays has won a £200m contract to distribute truck parts for Iveco, which will involve a warehouse in Cheshire and the creation of 180 jobs. 07-Dec-1999 Hays is to create 200 new jobs in Doncaster, having won a contract to distribute goods to B&Q stores. 07-Dec-1999 Hays has acquired IT contractor Hutchinson Smith and delivery service Cannon Couriers for about £46m. 04-Nov-1999 Hays has sold three food ingredients businesses to a new company called Braes Group for £22m, and Braes is planning to build up a £200m food group with the backing of 3i. 21-Oct-1999 Hays has won food distribution contracts worth a total of £50m from Kentucky Fried Chicken, Haagen Daz Cafes, and Yates Wine Lodges, which will lead to the creation of 400 jobs. 18-Oct-1999 Hays has acquired Ceritex, the French call centre services company, for £12m, and Crawfords Computing, the UK database management company, also for £12m. 24-Mar-1999 Hays has won a contract to set up a national distribution network for the B&Q retailing chain, creating 400 jobs. 16-Mar-1999 Hays is planning to spend up to £200m on the acquisition of business services companies in continental Europe this year. 02-Mar-1999 Hays is acquiring France Partner, the French courier company, for an initial £16m, which will increase its share of the French early-morning express delivery market to about 20%. 06-Jan-1999 Hays has acquired Axis Resources, the IT outsourcing company that was recently spun off from Tomkins, for up to £40m. 31-Dec-1998 Hays has acquired Colirail, the French provider of courier services, for £14m. 02-Dec-1998 Hays has acquired Sitinfo, the French computer staff recruitment concern, for up to £13m. 30-Oct-1998 Hays Customer Solutions is planning to create up to 1,000 jobs at a new national call centre at the De Montfort Business Park in Leicester. 26-Oct-1998 Hays is acquiring Castleton Data Services, the billing services company, for up to £15m. 18-Sep-1998 Hays Distribution has won a five-year contract to supply all of BP's forecourt stores, which will result in 400 additional jobs at Hays' distribution centres in Milton Keynes, Glasgow, Manchester and London. 29-Aug-1998 Securicor has acquired Hays Express, the overnight parcels business, from Hays for £16.7m, and will merge it with its Omega Express division. 08-Jul-1998 Hays has acquired Delta Medical Express, a courier service based in France and Belgium, for £2.2m, as well as three French recruitment agencies for £18m. 27-Jun-1998 Hays has acquired two European food distributors - the Cedima chilled food business in northern France for £1m and the Sodibelco Group in Milan for up to £9m. 08-Apr-1998 Hays Group is targeting mainland Europe for the next stage of growth of its logistics business, while its personnel and commercial services divisions also hope to benefit from the increase in outsourcing in Europe. 05-Mar-1998 Hays is acquiring TTN Geodata Services, the Norwegian tape storage and remastering company, for £3.2m, as well as a small membrane production facility from Ionics of Massachusetts for £6.9m. 12-Nov-1997 Hays has sold its dry cargo and tanker fleets as well as Crescent Shipping and Crescent Ship Management for a total £9.7m. 12-Nov-1997 Hays has acquired DEI, the document management company, for an initial £17m, in order to expand its range of back-office support services. 05-Nov-1997 Hays is planning to expand its European distribution business into northern Italy over the next year, and also aims to expand its office service business through acquisition. 17-Sep-1997 Hays has agreed a £100m five-year contract to distribute goods to Shell's petrol station convenience stores, creating over 400 jobs at five distribution centres. 29-Aug-1997 Hays is expanding its European logistics business with the acquisition of FDS in France and van der Heijden in the Benelux from Mayne Nickless for £72m. 21-Aug-1997 Hays has won a £100m contract to supply shops on BP petrol station forecourts, creating up to 500 jobs at its Milton Keynes distribution operation. 07-Aug-1997 Hays, the logistics and business services company, is planning to make more acquisitions in the near future and is bidding for two businesses put up for sale by Mayne Nickless, the Australian transport company. 31-Jul-1997 Hays has acquired North & South Installations, the transporter of refrigeration units for retailers, for an initial £4.5m. 21-Jan-1997 Hays is to acquire Daufenbach, the German logistics company, for up to £30m in order to expand its European distribution network. 03-Jan-1997 Christian Salvesen's directors have rejected the £1.18bn takeover bid from Hays, the distribution group, and are now considering a possible break-up or disposals. 07-Aug-1996 Hays is looking to buy Christian Salvesen, possibly for more than £1bn, in a deal that would create the largest distribution group in Europe. 26-Jul-1996 More from the Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals sector Related pages: McBride AstraZeneca Shire Tristel Ciba Specialty Chemicals Hays website: www.haysplc.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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