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Parkdean Parkdean Holidays has acquired Weststar Holidays, the Exeter-based chain of four holiday parks with 300 staff, for £80m, and is now looking to acquire a further 20 holiday sites over the next two years. 20-Jul-2007 Parkdean, the chain of 20 caravan parks, is to be acquired by private equity firm Alchemy for £140m. 20-Mar-2006 Parkdean Holidays, the operator of 20 caravan parks, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 13-Oct-2005 Parkdean Holidays has secured a £152m financing package from Lloyds TSB and Barclays to fund organic growth and acquisitions for its holiday parks business. 10-Mar-2005 Parkdean Holidays has acquired five holiday parks from Bourne Leisure for £42m, including sites in Great Yarmouth, Dorset, Torquay, Carmarthenshire and the Firth of Clyde. 20-Oct-2004 Parkdean Holidays has acquired Border Travel Services, the owner of the Southerness Holiday Village near Dumfries, for £5.3m. 25-Mar-2004 Parkdean Holidays has started a recruitment drive to expand the 70-strong telesales staff at its new call centre in Newcastle. 17-Nov-2003 Parkdean Holidays, the caravan park operator, is planning to move to a larger site at the Gosforth Business Park in Newcastle upon Tyne, due to a rise in direct holiday sales. 24-Sep-2003 Parkdean Holidays is looking to spend up to £33m on the acquisition of caravan parks. 25-Jun-2003 Parkdean is to acquire Pactrem, the owner of two caravan holiday parks in Cornwall, for £13m. 02-May-2003 Parkdean is planning to spend up to £10m on acquisitions to expand its chain of 12 holiday parks across the country. 05-Mar-2003 Parkdean is looking to double the size of its holiday parks business over the next two years, and is seeking acquisitions in Yorkshire and East Anglia. 23-Sep-2002 Parkdean is planning to raise up to £28m in a share issue to fund the acquisition of holiday parks. 25-Mar-2002 Parkdean has acquired the Ruda Holiday Park near Ilfracombe in Devon for an undisclosed sum thought to be about £12m, taking its chain of holiday parks to 12. 21-Mar-2002 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007