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Liberty, the London department store, has been acquired by private equity firm BlueGem Capital Partners for £32m. 20-May-2010 Liberty is planning to close the Regent Street section of its London department store in 2006, in order to concentrate its business in the adjacent mock-Tudor building. 26-Sep-2005 Liberty is planning a £4m refurbishment at its Regent Street store in London, and has also announced a withdrawal from its mail order and e-commerce operations. 08-Feb-2001 Liberty, the London department store, has been acquired by Marylebone Warwick Balfour for £72m, and the main Regent Street building will be refurbished at a cost of £9m. 17-May-2000 Liberty, the Regent Street department store, is in talks with a number of unnamed bidders, but no firm proposals have yet been received. 14-Feb-2000 Liberty has secured £23m of funding to redevelop its Regent Street department store in London and to expand its branded merchandise business. 22-Apr-1999 Liberty has decided not to go-ahead with plans for a £39m redevelopment of its Regent Street store in London, following the recent change in management. 07-Mar-1998 Liberty, the London department store, is no longer seeking offers for the company following changes in the board. 30-Jan-1998 The chairman and three fellow directors have resigned from the board of Liberty following a dispute over plans to redevelop the Regent Street department store. 14-Jan-1998 Liberty, the luxury department store in London, is planning a £43m redevelopment to introduce a rooftop restaurant, a food hall, and other new services, but the plan is being criticised by dissident shareholders. 01-Dec-1997 Liberty, the London department store, has put itself up for sale in order to fend off attempts by two large shareholders to replace the chairman. 04-Nov-1997 Liberty, the Regent Street retailer, could be facing a major change to the composition of its board, as the Liberty family, who hold a 44% stake, have called an extraordinary general meeting. 25-Oct-1997 Liberty is to invest £40m in the expansion of its flagship store in London, and expand its smaller outlets at airports. 19-Apr-1997 Liberty is to launch 963 Liberty Radio in London on November 29, and is spending £7.5m this year to get it established. 19-Nov-1996 Liberty Publishing is preparing to launch a new London radio station called 963 Liberty which will include news and entertainment. 10-Oct-1996 Liberty is to close its 20 regional stores, with the loss of 350 jobs, in order to reverse declining profits. 23-May-1996 Liberty Publishing, the media subsidiary of Harrods, has bought Viva Radio, the radio station for women, for £3m. 04-May-1996 Liberty Publishing has increased its offer for The Observer newspaper to £25m. 16-Mar-1996 Mohammed Fayed has made some senior appointments to his Liberty Publishing company, which are likely to pre-empt a major drive into the UK media sector either in radio or newspapers. 28-Feb-1996
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