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Kier is to shed 45 of the 1,200 jobs at its council buildings maintenance business in Sheffield. 16-Jun-2009 Kier is to merge its facilities management operations into a new division called Kier Facilities Services with 1,200 staff in London, Cardiff, Basingstoke and Sheffield, but about 20 back-office jobs will be lost. 29-Oct-2008 Kier Group is to close three Kier Residential regional offices in St Neots, Borehamwood and Glasgow, with the loss of up to 300 jobs. 08-Jul-2008 Kier has closed two housing offices in Lincoln and Spalding, but some of the 90 staff will be redeployed. 26-May-2008 Network Rail is forming a joint venture with Kier Property for the £500m redevelopment of six station sites across the South East, including Enfield, Epsom, Guildford, Maidstone, Twickenham and Walthamstow. 03-Apr-2008 Kier has acquired Hugh Bourn Developments, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £53m. 03-Aug-2006 Kier has acquired Ashwood Homes, the housebuilder operating in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, for £24m. 14-Jun-2005 Kier has won a £20m contract from Barnet Healthcare NHS Trust to build a mental health facility at Barnet General Hospital. 11-Nov-2004 Kier has won a £12m contract from Shanks Waste Services to build a materials recycling plant at Rainham in Essex. 26-May-2004 Kier has acquired Tudor Homes, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £15m. 03-Feb-2004 Kier has won a £1.5m contract from Inverclyde Royal NHS Trust to build a sterile supplies unit in Greenock. 15-Jan-2004 Kier's Wallis subsidiary has won a £17m contract from De Vere to build a Village Hotel & Leisure Club near Maidstone. 22-Jan-2003 Kier has acquired Partnerships First from Belan, in order to create a new social housing division called Kier Partnership Homes with four offices in Dorking, Bristol, Aldridge and Southampton. 28-Nov-2002 Sheffield City Council has selected Kier as preferred bidder for a £640m contract to repair and maintain up to 60,000 buildings. 17-Oct-2002 Kier is planning to more than double the size of its support services division over the next two years, by setting up a stand-alone business unit and increasing turnover to £150m. 19-Sep-2002 John Laing has sold its property development business to a joint venture of Kier Group and Bank of Scotland for £40m, as part of a £120m disposal programme to reduce debt. 16-Apr-2002 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 Kier has acquired Allison Homes, the housebuilder that trades as Swallow Homes in eastern England, for £17m. 13-Sep-2001 Kier has won a £198m contract from Prospect Healthcare to build a 200-bed hospital in Reading. 04-May-2001 Kier has won a £18m contract to build a 123-bedroom hotel at Thorpe Park in Leeds for Shires Inn. 26-Oct-2000 Kier has won the first stage of a tender process to build the £55m out-of-town Hampshire Centre shopping complex in Bournemouth, which is being developed by Castlemore Securities. 20-Jul-2000 Kier Rail has won a £20m contract from West Coast Traincare to prepare six Traincare centres for the arrival of the new Virgin tilting trains. 15-Mar-2000 Kier is to build a £60m PFI hospital in Port Talbot for Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust. 08-Jan-2000 Kier is expected to win a contract from Castlemore Securities for the construction of a £70m leisure and commercial development in Maidenhead. 25-Mar-1999 Kier has won a £9m contract to build a Virgin cinema complex in Glasgow. 04-Dec-1998 Kier is planning to acquire Bellwinch for about £13m in order to expand its housebuilding business in the south-east. 02-Jun-1998 Kier Group, in partnership with the Innisfree investment fund, has won a contract from the Hairmyres & Stonehouse NHS Trust to build and run the first Scottish hospital under the private finance initiative. 02-Apr-1998 London & Continental Railways has announced preferred bidders for two tunnelling contracts on the Channel tunnel rail link, and they are a consortium of Kier, Edward Nuttall and Wayss & Freytag, and a consortium of John Mowlem, Besix and Phillip Holzmann. 16-Jan-1998 Kier Group has acquired FM Contract Services, the building maintenance company, for an initial £4.5m. 08-Oct-1997 Kier and Crown House Engineering have won a £36m contract to upgrade Gillingham's Medway hospital. 21-May-1996 Railtrack is expected to award £760m worth of contracts to a group comprising Kier, Bovis, John Laing, YJ Lovell and Taylor Woodrow, to improve rundown railway stations. 17-May-1996 A Kier Group subsidiary has won a contract to build a new Sainsbury superstore in Street, Somerset. 03-Oct-1995
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