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Tamaris Tamaris has sold its main nursing home assets to Omega Worldwide of the US, following the failure of a rescue plan that would have given Tamaris a £6m equity injection. 02-Nov-1999 Tamaris, the nursing homes company, is negotiating an equity injection from US-based Omega Worldwide, which could lead to a full takeover offer. 28-Sep-1999 Tamaris, the nursing homes company, is planning to dispose of its commercial property portfolio. 21-Nov-1998 Tamaris Care has bought a 63-bed nursing home near Bolton for £1.68m, in a sale and leaseback arrangement. 10-Jul-1998 Tamaris, the nursing homes operator, is trying to piece together its new share register following the sale of 200m of its shares by Asian banks, although it appears that a hostile stake has not been built up. 07-Jul-1998 Tamaris is planning to increase its number of nursing home beds from about 5,000 to 10,000 over the next two years. 16-Jun-1998 Westminster Healthcare has sold 12 nursing homes to Tamaris for £20m, and Tamaris will sell and lease them back to a new investment trust set up by Westminster and Holiday Retirement Corp of the US. 16-Dec-1997 Tamaris is planning to set up nursing home joint ventures in Malaysia and Singapore by creating a new subsidiary called Tamaris International. 30-Oct-1997 Tamaris has acquired Caledonian Care, the operator of two care homes in Scotland, from Epsom Investment Service for £1.2m. 29-Jul-1997 Tamaris is paying about £9m to acquire a portfolio of office buildings from Colegate Management, and intends to use the profits from the letting of the properties to expand its nursing homes business. 18-Jul-1997 Tamaris is to increase its number of nursing home beds from 2,000 to 3,000 this year through a joint venture with Principal Healthcare, and will now concentrate on earnings rather than asset growth. 11-Jun-1997 Quality Care Homes has agreed to a £46m takeover bid from Principal Healthcare Investors, which will run the nursing homes in a joint venture with Tamaris. 19-May-1997 Tamaris is acquiring the 60-bed Bearehill Nursing and Residential Home in Brechin for £1.6m. 02-May-1997 Tamaris has acquired two east London nursing homes for £5.9m. 06-Mar-1997 Tamaris is to sell and leaseback three of its nursing homes for up to £7.5m following a deal with IHP. 14-Feb-1997 Tamaris has been selected as the preferred operator for the United Bank of Kuwait's Guernsey-based Healthcare Fund which will purchase nursing homes for Tamaris to operate. 18-Dec-1996 Tamaris has acquired four more nursing homes with 170 beds for £4.5m. 03-Jul-1996 Tamaris is acquiring a 49.9% stake in Continental Shelf 55, a new company which has been set up to acquire the nursing home operator Lodge Care, for £1.6m. 17-Jun-1996 Tamaris has sold three new nursing homes - one in Hartlepool and two in Northern Ireland, to an investment company which is letting them back to Tamaris. 28-Dec-1995 Tamaris is buying a new 76-bed nursing home in Hartlepool for £2.5m. 10-Nov-1995 Tamaris, the nursing homes concern, expects to announce further acquisitions soon. 01-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007