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Jarvis Jarvis is to sell its Prismo road markings business to Ennis Paint of the US for £9.5m. 06-Nov-2006 Jarvis has sold its Techspan road signs business to Hill Smith for £0.9m. 08-Aug-2005 Jarvis is in negotiations to sell its road repairs business to Accord, in order to focus on rail engineering, plant hire and road products. 19-Jul-2005 Jarvis is to relocate the head office for its rail renewals and plant hire business from London to York next month, but most of the 60 staff have opted not to move. 07-Mar-2005 Jarvis is to shed a further 300 jobs in its construction and engineering business by March, as part of a rescue plan agreed with its banks. 30-Dec-2004 Jarvis has sold its European roads business to the Somaro subsidiary of Bouygues for £25m. 23-Dec-2004 Jarvis is planning to sell its 33% stake in the Tubelines London Underground consortium to Star Capital for about £100m. 14-Dec-2004 Jarvis is planning to sell its private finance initiative unit to Hochtief Projektentwicklung of Germany for undisclosed terms. 15-Nov-2004 Jarvis is to sell its team of 40 staff who bid for new private finance initiative contracts to French construction group Vinci. 14-Oct-2004 Jarvis has sold its division that bids for university accommodation projects, which includes 40 staff, to the Alma Mater Fund for undisclosed terms. 02-Sep-2004 Jarvis has sold its entire stake in Ultramast, the developer of mobile telephone radio masts, to Shere Group, a joint venture company formed by Babcock & Brown and four Ultramast managers, for £0.3m. 03-Aug-2004 Jarvis is looking to raise £150m from the sale of various assets, including its stake in the Tube Lines consortium, and will scale back its school and hospital building operations. 02-Aug-2004 Jarvis, the rail contractor, is planning to rationalise its London property holdings but is expected to drop plans to move to a new £30m headquarters in Smithfield. 16-Jun-2004 Jarvis is to shed 83 of the 286 jobs in its rail signalling and maintenance operation, following a fall in demand. 10-Mar-2004 Jarvis is to move into the rail freight market early next year, which will involve the leasing of rolling stock and an agreement to provide haulage services for Scottish Coal. 26-Nov-2003 Jarvis has won a £339m contract to build and maintain student accommodation for the University of Lancaster. 20-Oct-2003 Jarvis has won a £270m contract to provide environmental services to Herefordshire County Council, which will involve the transfer of 521 council staff. 12-Sep-2003 Jarvis has won a £97m contract to build and operate the UK's first PFI ambulatory care centre at the City Hospital in Birmingham. 10-Jan-2003 Jarvis is to shed 35 of the 2,500 jobs in its accommodation services division, which will affect sites across the country. 30-Oct-2002 Jarvis has been selected as preferred bidder to provide and maintain accommodation for 4,350 students at Lancaster University. 03-Apr-2002 Jarvis has been selected as preferred bidder to build a £25m walk-in care centre for Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust, one of 20 planned throughout the country. 14-Dec-2001 Jarvis and Kier have won private finance initiative contracts worth £358m to build and refurbish 30 schools, with the Jarvis contract covering Liverpool and Kier's covering Essex. 16-Oct-2001 Jarvis has acquired a 51% stake in Avonwood Developments for £1.1m, in order to develop new systems to monitor the condition of railway lines. 06-Sep-2001 Jarvis has won a £54m contract under the private finance initiative to build and maintain a community learning centre at Sandhill View in Sunderland. 23-Aug-2001 Jarvis has announced plans to build a £60m student village to provide accommodation for up to 1,000 people in south-east London. 21-Aug-2001 Jarvis has won a contract from Accor to build a £6m 210-bedroom hotel in Wembley. 12-Apr-2001 Jarvis has been selected as Railtrack's preferred bidder for a £50m contract to maintain the east coast mainline railway, and seven other maintenance contracts have also been announced. 22-Jan-2001 Jarvis has sold its Laybond building products business to a management team for £20m, in order to focus on facilities management. 03-Oct-2000 Jarvis is forming a joint venture with Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire to invest £43m in the upgrade of 20 schools. 07-Mar-2000 Railtrack has awarded a £250m contract to Jarvis for the maintenance of its network in the north-east and eastern England over the next five years. 04-Feb-2000 Jarvis is acquiring Trafiroad, the Belgian road marking and maintenance company, for up to £8.5m, as part of a strategy to expand its facilities management business into continental Europe. 31-Dec-1999 Jarvis is seeking to diversify its rail and road maintenance business into new areas such as buildings and property maintenance. 13-May-1999 Jarvis is looking to benefit from rail privatisation in Australia in partnership with Stagecoach and Australia's Goninan. 05-Sep-1998 Jarvis is in discussions to raise £500m from potential backers to invest in student accommodation, and intends to run the properties it acquires. 21-Jul-1998 Jarvis is considering plans to sell off some of its building materials operations, as well as some properties, in order to increase its focus on the transport sector. 13-Jul-1998 Jarvis has been selected as preferred bidder for four private finance initiative contracts, including the construction of schools in London and Leeds. 24-Jun-1998 Jarvis is to acquire Streamline, the road and airport maintenance and building materials concern, for £184m in order to help it expand overseas and benefit from the growth in outsourcing. 02-May-1998 Jarvis and Railtrack are to set up an "alliance board" in order to reduce the impact of engineering work on train operations. 21-Jan-1998 Jarvis has reached agreement to undertake domestic property repairs for Royal & Sun Alliance policyholders, in a £26m three-year deal. 21-Jan-1998 Jarvis has won three 3-year contracts, worth a total £290m, from Railtrack for the renewal of track in Scotland, the north, Wales and the Midlands. 09-Dec-1997 Railtrack and Jarvis have resolved their dispute over pricing, with Jarvis agreeing to reduce prices for certain track maintenance work. 26-Jul-1997 Jarvis has acquired Fastline, the rail track renewal company, for £50m, and is also buying the outstanding 50% of Relayfast for £5m. 20-Jun-1997 Jarvis is acquiring a 50% stake in Relayfast for £4.9m, thereby adding track renewal to its railway maintenance operations. 30-May-1997 Jarvis is in discussions with Relayfast about setting up a joint venture in railway infrastructure services, in order to share manpower and increase their geographical spread. 17-May-1997 Jarvis is buying Northern Infrastructure Maintenance Company from the British Railways Board, for £9m. 23-May-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007