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Tarmac Anglo American is said to be planning to sell its Tarmac building materials business next year for at least £3bn. 03-Aug-2007 Tarmac has sold its TopPave concrete landscaping blocks business, including sites in Pocklington and Poole, to Brett Landscaping & Building Products for undisclosed terms. 16-Aug-2006 Tarmac has acquired National Road Planning, the Lincolnshire-based provider of planning services, plant and equipment, from Rand Group for undisclosed terms. 27-Jan-2006 Tarmac has sold its asphalt plant in Littlehampton to Newhaven Roadstone, a joint venture between Tarmac and Colas, for undisclosed terms. 09-Dec-2005 Tarmac has acquired Encore Environmental Aggregates of Lanarkshire from Alfred McAlpine. 28-Jul-2005 Tarmac is to shed 200 jobs at its two main offices in Wolverhampton as part of a cost-cutting campaign following its acquisition by Anglo American. 09-Jun-2000 Tarmac's agreed merger with Anglo American has been referred by the European Commission to the UK competition authorities for investigation. 14-Jan-2000 Tarmac has agreed a £1.2bn takeover bid from Anglo American, the South African mining company, and the combined group will seek acquisitions in continental Europe. 06-Nov-1999 Tarmac has acquired Moffatts, the operator of quarries in the west of Northern Ireland, for £6m. 25-Oct-1999 Tarmac is planning to spend up to £100m a year on investment and acquisitions in order to expand its building materials business, and it aims to double the size of its operations in continental Europe. 06-Oct-1999 Tarmac has acquired Situsec, the Greenwich-based asphalt company, for £9.5m. 04-Oct-1999 Tarmac has bought Marley Paving, the concrete block and paving business, from Brussels-based Etex for £26m. 16-Sep-1999 Tarmac Quarry Products has submitted plans to East Riding Council to open up a sand and gravel quarry at Little Catwick near Hornsea. 24-Aug-1999 Tarmac is planning to invest £13m in the expansion of its US ready-mix and concrete block operations in Virginia. 20-Jul-1999 Tarmac has put its Hilton Hall headquarters near Wolverhampton up for sale at a price of £2m, and it is expected to be converted into a conference centre, hotel, or upmarket retirement home. 28-Jun-1999 Tarmac is to split in two by the end of July, with a new construction division called Carillion based in Wolverhampton and a quarrying division based near Bilston. 14-Jun-1999 Tarmac Heavy Building Materials has won approval from Nottinghamshire County Council to extend Girton quarry to extract an extra 5m tonnes of sand and gravel. 27-May-1999 Tarmac Civil Engineering is seeking 250 construction workers for a £50m contract to upgrade Nine Dock at Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth. 26-Mar-1999 Tarmac is planning to split into two groups later this year, one focusing on construction and the other on aggregates, prompting speculation that it may link up with a rival company. 03-Feb-1999 Tarmac has won a £21m contract from Manchester City Council to build the Manchester International Convention Centre. 28-Jan-1999 Tarmac's Bilston-based Crown House Engineering division is planning to increase its workforce from 80 to 200 by the end of the year, and is seeking new premises. 22-Jan-1999 Tarmac has won a £20m contract to build the Five Ways leisure complex in Birmingham for Richardson Cordwell. 17-Dec-1998 Tarmac and Aggregate Industries have unexpectedly called off their merger talks due to disagreement over the management structure of a combined group. 15-Dec-1998 Tarmac has won approval to build a £60m retail and leisure scheme in the centre of Sheffield, which should be completed in 2002. 12-Nov-1998 Tarmac has won the contract for the £50m Birmingham Mailbox project, which will refurbish the former Royal Mail Sorting Office with restaurants, shops, a health club, a 200-bed hotel, and apartments. 10-Nov-1998 Tarmac and Aggregate Industries are making progress on talks about a £1.6bn merger, and a deal could be announced before the end of the year. 06-Nov-1998 Tarmac Quarry Products has acquired Johnston Surfacing, the road surfacing contractor, from Johnston Group for £0.6m. 05-Nov-1998 Tarmac is in merger discussions with Aggregate Industries, which would create a combined group with a strong position in the market for heavy building materials such as sand, gravel, rock and concrete. 13-Oct-1998 The Foreign Office has chosen GSL, a consortium of Tarmac, Group 4 and British Telecom, as the preferred bidder to rebuild the GCHQ government communications headquarters in or near Cheltenham. 08-Oct-1998 Tarmac has announced plans to merge its UK and international civil engineering operations in order to reduce costs by up to £5m a year, following the government decision to cut back its road-building programme. 23-Sep-1998 Tarmac has increased its stake in WKSM, the Polish aggregates company, from 30% to 56%, and its holding is now worth £4.7m. 16-Jul-1998 Tarmac has acquired a US concrete paving business from Marshalls for £18m, which will expand its presence in the southern states. 09-Mar-1998 Railtrack has awarded a contract worth £18m a year to Tarmac for rail track renewal work in East Anglia. 04-Mar-1998 Tarmac and Bovis are to merge their plant hire operations into a joint venture called Castlewyse, which will unite Bovis's Wyseplant branches with those of Tarmac's Castle Plant Services subsidiary. 25-Feb-1998 Tarmac, Balfour Beatty and other construction companies, are said to be considering the idea of taking small equity stakes in London & Continental Railways in order to improve the chances of the high-speed rail link between London and the Channel tunnel being finished on time. 02-Jan-1998 Tarmac is planning to expand further into rail maintenance work as its new roads business has fallen to 15% of group turnover. 24-Sep-1997 Ennstone is to raise over £8m in a share placing in order to fund the purchase and expansion of Tarmac's masonry products division, as part of a plan to widen its product base and strengthen its balance sheet. 30-May-1997 Tarmac is in discussions with two companies about the possible sale of its Castle Plant Services plant hire business. 09-Apr-1997 Tarmac is leading a consortium that has won a £100m contract to build a 400-bed hospital in Dartford under the Private Finance Initiative. 12-Feb-1997 Tarmac and Amec have won the £100m contract to build a second runway at Manchester airport. 11-Feb-1997 Tarmac has ended its dispute with the government over the privatisation of the Property Services Agency, having agreed to repay £22.5m of the £50m it was paid by the government to take away the PSA projects division. 25-Jan-1997 Tarmac and ARC are merging their Midlands quarrying operations into a joint venture called Midland Quarry Products, a move which will result in the mothballing of ARC's Nuneaton and Whitwick quarries. 19-Nov-1996 The UK Highways M40 consortium, which includes Hyder Welsh, Tarmac, John Laing and two French companies, has won a £100m contract to widen and maintain the M40 motorway between London and Birmingham. 09-Oct-1996 Wimpey and Tarmac have completed a deal to swap Wimpey's quarrying and contracting operations for Tarmac's housebuilding. 09-Feb-1996 George Wimpey and Tarmac are said to be nearly ready to announce the swapping of their housebuilding, quarrying and contracting activities. 11-Jan-1996 Wimpey has denied reports that a management buy-out is being considered instead of the planned asset swap with Tarmac. 08-Jan-1996 Costain Group is selling Costain Building Products, the precast concrete products operation, to Tarmac for £3.6m. 30-Dec-1995 Tarmac has bought out Trafalgar House's interest in Richard Lees, their concrete flooring joint venture for £5.9m. 08-Dec-1995 The financial institutions that backed the failed attempt to buy Tarmac's housing division are still actively looking to buy a housebuilder or building materials concern. 18-Nov-1995 Wimpey is acquiring Tarmac's housing division in exchange for its contracting and quarrying businesses. 16-Nov-1995 A management buy-out is among 6 possible buyers of Tarmac's housing business. 05-Oct-1995 Tarmac has received a number of approaches from parties interested in buying its housing division. 28-Sep-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007