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Mayflower is said to be looking to sell Mayflower Vehicle Systems, the manufacturer of car panels and truck cabs, which could raise about £55m. 01-Mar-2004 Mayflower is planning to build a new £30m bus manufacturing plant in Falkirk by 2005, with the transfer of 1,000 staff from its existing TransBus site nearby. 12-Sep-2003 Mayflower is to shed an unspecified number of jobs in its Falkirk-based TransBus bus manufacturing business, following the loss of 110 jobs in Guildford and Wigan last month. 05-Aug-2003 Mayflower Corporation has announced plans to build a £23m car body pressings plant at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham by early 2004, having won a contract from Ford to supply the new Land Rover models. 27-Feb-2003 Mayflower is set to win a £70m contract to install 30 wind turbines six miles off the coast of Anglesey for RWE of Germany, in partnership with Vestas Group of Denmark. 15-Jul-2002 Mayflower is to raise £67m in a rights issue, in order to reduce debt and fund acquisitions for its truck and bus manufacturing business. 18-Apr-2002 Mayflower has won contracts worth £70m to manufacture buses for London United, Go-Ahead and Metroline Travel. 16-Apr-2002 Mayflower is paying £6m for a 33% stake in PHL, a new joint venture company formed for the commercial development of the e3 Variable Motion Engine. 02-Oct-2001 Mayflower is planning to expand its windfarm engineering operations following the development of a new system to install and maintain offshore turbines. 01-Aug-2001 Mayflower is to close its TransBus bus-building plant in Scarborough with the loss of 700 jobs. 04-May-2001 Lola Cars is forming a joint venture with Mayflower to manufacture sports cars at Longbridge, and negotiations are taking place with MG Rover to lease some of the land. 19-Mar-2001 Mayflower has won a contract to build 330 new buses for Stagecoach at its Alexander factory in Falkirk, which will safeguard hundreds of jobs. 22-Dec-2000 Mayflower and Henlys are forming a joint venture for their bus manufacturing operations, which will include 3,300 employees at seven locations in Scotland and Yorkshire. 02-Aug-2000 Mayflower has agreed a £19m deal with Razorback Vehicles of Australia to manufacture vans at its plants in Coventry and elsewhere. 01-Jun-2000 Mayflower is to set up a new £15m parts manufacturing facility at Larbert, near its existing bus plant in Falkirk. 07-Oct-1999 Mayflower is selling Dennis Eagle, the manufacturer of refuse vehicles, as well as Douglas Equipment and Schopf to Natwest Equity Partners for £31m. 29-Jul-1999 Mayflower is forming a joint venture company with DaimlerChrysler called Thomas Dennis, in order to manufacture and distribute buses in North America. 23-Jun-1999 Mayflower is looking to sell its Dennis Eagle refuse truck business and two airport equipment businesses, in order to raise up to £40m. 18-Jun-1999 Mayflower is linking up with DaimlerChrysler to build a US factory to manufacture 1,000 buses a year. 03-Mar-1999 Mayflower has won a £40m contract to supply buses to New World First Bus, the Hong Kong bus operator in which First Group has a stake. 12-Nov-1998 Mayflower has won government approval to continue with its £269m takeover bid for Dennis, the bus chassis maker. 14-Oct-1998 Mayflower is in discussions with Daimler-Benz about a possible technical tie-up in the bus sector, which could lead to a series of worldwide joint ventures. 17-Sep-1998 Mayflower is acquiring a 40% stake in Metrotrans, the US busmaker, for £15m and will take a majority stake within two years. 25-Aug-1998 Henlys has increased its offer for Dennis Group, the specialist vehicle maker, to about £300m, which beats the latest bid from Mayflower of £255m. 15-Aug-1998 Mayflower may bid for Dennis Group, the bus chassis maker that has agreed to merge with Henlys, and is also looking for engineering acquisitions in the US and Europe. 05-Aug-1998 Mayflower has sold its Ribbons seat belt subsidiary to a company set up by Gresham Trust for £6.5m. 12-Mar-1998 Vickers has announced that it is expecting a hostile takeover bid from Mayflower, the car parts company that is about half its size. 06-Nov-1997 Mayflower, the UK automotive engineering concern, is acquiring SCSM, the US automotive body-pressings company, for £101m. 08-Nov-1996 Mayflower and TWR, the two engineering companies, have expressed an interest in the acquisition of Lotus, the sports car and engineering consultancy. 12-Aug-1996
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