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Johnson Service has sold certain assets and maintenance contracts of its Bristol-based Workplace Engineering division to MSS Facilities for an initial £0.2m. 16-Dec-2009 Johnson Service is to spend £6m on the introduction of the environmentally friendly GreenEarth cleaning technology into 150 of its dry-cleaning branches by 2012. 30-Oct-2008 Johnson Service is to sell its Castle Donington-based corporate clothing business, which has 600 staff, to a management team backed by private equity firm Gresham for £82m. 14-Apr-2008 Johnson Service is to relocate its corporate head office from Warrington to London over the next few months, with the loss of about six jobs. 12-Sep-2007 Johnson Service has sold JHS North, its Manchester-based catering equipment hire subsidiary with 25 staff, to a management buy-out, and the business will be renamed CHS Catering Equipment & Furniture Hire. 01-Mar-2007 Johnson Service has sold part of the business of Johnson Hospitality Services to Surrey-based Spaceworks Furniture Hire for £0.8m, and the remainder will be closed by the end of the year. 20-Dec-2006 Johnson Service is considering plans to sell its Sketchley, Johnsons and Jeeves dry cleaning operations for an estimated £90m, in order to focus on corporate wear and apparel. 14-Mar-2006 Johnson Service has acquired SGP Property Services, the Leicester-based property management company, for up to £29m. 12-Oct-2005 Johnson Service Group is to relocate its Bootle-based headquarters and 200 staff to a new site near Switch Island next spring. 30-Jun-2005 Johnson Service has acquired the corporate wear business of Dewhirst Group for £22m. 05-Jan-2005 Johnson Service has acquired S Yaffy, the Scottish manufacturer of outdoor clothing, for £3.5m. 15-Dec-2004 Johnson Service is to acquire Dimensions Holdings, the corporate wear supplier, from Gresham, for £22m. 02-Aug-2004 Johnson Service is to acquire Sketchley Services, which includes 103 dry cleaning shops, from the Timpson Group for a nominal sum. 20-May-2004 Johnson Service has acquired Enfield-based HSS Event Hire from HSS Group for £1.5m, in order to expand its Johnson Hospitality Services division. 16-Apr-2004 Johnson Service is planning to open up to 25 dry cleaning outlets in London over the next 12 months. 15-Mar-2004 Johnson Service is to trial dry cleaning outlets in Tesco stores, involving an on-site cleaning system at the Pitsea store in Essex. 12-Mar-2004 Johnson Service has acquired Jongor North, the catering equipment hire company, for £2.4m. 18-Dec-2003 Johnson Service has acquired Alex Reid, the distributor of packaging and consumables to the clothes care market, for £4.3m. 11-Dec-2003 Johnson Service has acquired 38 dry cleaning branches in southern England from Brooks Service for £1.9m. 16-Oct-2003 Johnson Service is to acquire Workplace Management, the property management company, from Chesterton International for £20m. 14-Oct-2003 PHS has acquired the washroom services division of Johnson Service for £14m. 14-Aug-2003 Johnson Service has sold Connacht Court Group, the operator of Johnson's textile rental business in Ireland, to National Linen for £15m. 12-Aug-2003 Johnson Service has acquired Jeeves of Belgravia, the London-based operator of 12 dry cleaning shops, from Minit Holdings for about £3m. 12-May-2003 Johnson Service, the dry-cleaning group, has sold its airline servicing business to Aviation & Airport Services for £3.5m. 02-Apr-2001 Johnson Service, the dry-cleaning company, is planning to acquire Semara for £95m, as part of a strategy to expand its textile rental business. 31-Jan-2000
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