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Informa and Taylor & Francis are planning to merge to create a £1.1bn information group called T&F Informa. 03-Mar-2004 Taylor & Francis is to acquire Dekker, the US scientific, technical and medical publisher with 170 staff, for £82m. 19-Nov-2003 Taylor & Francis has acquired Swets & Zeitlinger, the Dutch publisher of scientific and medical books with 37 staff, for £12m. 05-Nov-2003 Taylor & Francis has acquired Frank Cass & Co, the London-based journal and book publisher, for £9.5m. 28-Jul-2003 Taylor & Francis has acquired CRC Press for £60m, in order to expand its scientific publishing business in the US. 03-Mar-2003 Taylor & Francis has acquired Bios Scientific Publishers, the publisher of medical and biological books and journals, for £2.7m. 04-Feb-2003 Taylor & Francis has acquired the publishing business and assets of US-based reference book publisher Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers for up to £3.1m. 10-Sep-2002 Taylor & Francis is to relocate its journal publishing business and about 130 staff from sites in Abingdon, Reading and London to Milton Park, near Didcot. 23-Apr-2002 Taylor & Francis has proposed a £300m takeover bid for Blackwell Publishing. 13-Mar-2002 Taylor & Francis has acquired Curzon Press of London for £1.4m, in order to expand its academic book publishing business. 06-Dec-2001 Taylor & Francis is seeking acquisitions in Europe and the US to expand its scientific and academic publishing business. 20-Sep-2001 Taylor & Francis has acquired the scientific and academic publishing operations of Gordon & Breach for £22m. 15-Feb-2001 Taylor & Francis is to digitalise its 17,000 scientific and academic books in a deal with Versaware of the US, in order to benefit from rising demand for electronic books. 14-Jul-2000 Taylor & Francis has acquired Martin Dunitz, the London-based publisher of medical books and journals, for £11m. 27-Oct-1999 Taylor & Francis is looking to spend over £100m on acquisitions in order to expand its academic publishing business in the UK and the US. 16-Sep-1999 Taylor & Francis is to acquire the international journals business of Universitetsforlaget for up to £4.4m. 21-Aug-1999 Taylor & Francis is acquiring Europa Publications, the publisher of reference works, from MPG for £12m. 18-May-1999
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