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Laporte, the speciality chemicals company, has accepted a £1.36bn takeover bid from Degussa-Huls of Germany, which is expected to lead to the loss of some of the 30 jobs at Laporte's head office. 18-Dec-2000 Laporte, the speciality chemicals company, has received a takeover approach from Degussa-Huls of Germany. 15-Dec-2000 Laporte is selling a number of non-core businesses to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for £810m, including pigments, additives, water technology, timber and electronics. 26-Sep-2000 Laporte is selling its chemicals site in Wolverhampton to Schenectady Europe for £20m, as part of a strategy to focus more on value-added products for the life sciences market. 07-Dec-1999 Laporte Minerals is closing its Cavendish Mill site at Stoney Middleton with the loss of 115 jobs, as its major customer, ICI, is to switch its business to Chinese fluorospar suppliers. 29-Jul-1999 Laporte, the fine chemicals company, has ended talks about a possible £2bn takeover bid from Clariant of Switzerland, apparently due to Clariant's failure to win approval from its largest shareholder Hoechst. 14-Apr-1999 Laporte is to sell its hygiene chemicals division to management for £31m, which means its disposals programme is nearly complete. 24-Dec-1998 Laporte is looking to sell its hygiene chemicals business and has identified four potential bidders. 07-Nov-1998 Laporte has sold its US mining chemicals business to Henkel of Germany for £10m, and more disposals are expected to follow as it aims to focus on life science and niche industrial products. 30-Oct-1998 Laporte, the chemicals company, is to reorganise its electronics division and cut 200 jobs, mainly in the US. 13-Oct-1998 Laporte is to acquire Inspec, the speciality chemicals business, for about £611m, thereby creating a leading European supplier to the pharmaceutical, agrochemicals and life sciences sectors. 06-Aug-1998 Laporte is looking to acquire speciality chemical companies with leading market shares, and has funds of about £130m. 10-Mar-1998 Laporte is selling its cat litter manufacturing business, withdrawing from activated earth production at Widnes, and selling similar businesses in Spain. 30-Oct-1997 Laporte is examining opportunities to spend up to £450m on acquisitions as the worldwide chemicals industry continues to restructure. 16-Sep-1997 Laporte is expecting to announce the sale of its US adhesives and sealants business for about £90m over the next four months. 27-May-1997 Laporte has sold its European adhesives operation to Elf of France for about £100m. 27-Dec-1996 Laporte is to close offices in Luton and Bedford Square and set up its main corporate office in London. 20-Nov-1996 Laporte has disposed of more non-core businesses for a total £23m, including the process chemicals business Gramos, the cleanroon garments operation Countdown Clean Systems, the US pet litter business Waverly Minerals, and its 50% stake in Laporte (Malaysia). 11-Jul-1996 Laporte, the chemicals company, has sold most of its Australasian operations to Fernz Corp of New Zealand for £29.5m. 27-Jun-1996 Laporte, the speciality chemicals concern, plans to cut 40% of its Luton head office staff and to sell businesses worth about 10% of sales. 12-Mar-1996 Laporte may close about 10% of its near 100 plants following a warning of a fall in profits. 09-Dec-1995 Laporte is buying the Clover Bar plant in Canada, which makes advanced drug substances, and it is planning to invest £14m in its expansion. 21-Oct-1995 Laporte has sold Vinings Industries of Atlanta to Chase Manhattan Capital Group for $33m. 21-Sep-1995 Laporte has sold 3 plastics companies to NatWest Ventures for £27m. 02-Sep-1995
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