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Taylor Woodrow Taylor Woodrow is said to be planning to close its head office in Solihull with the loss of up to 200 jobs, due to the planned £5bn merger with George Wimpey. 09-May-2007 George Wimpey is planning to merge with Taylor Woodrow to create a £5bn housebuilding group with 14,000 staff. 26-Mar-2007 Taylor Woodrow is planning to recruit 40 new staff this year and 40 next year, as its infrastructure division has won a number of new rail contracts in London. 01-Sep-2005 Taylor Woodrow has won a £20m contract from the Harefield Academy Trust to build a £20m football academy in Hertfordshire. 19-May-2005 Taylor Woodrow and Mars Pension Fund are planning a £100m leisure development in the Fiveways area of Birmingham, including a hotel, homes and offices, and a planning application is expected by February. 29-Sep-2003 Taylor Woodrow is planning to acquire Wilson Connolly, the Northampton-based housebuilder, for £480m, which is expected to lead to the closure of ten offices and the loss of 300 jobs. 02-Sep-2003 Taylor Woodrow has won a £30m contract from the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust to build a tertiary cardiac centre. 20-Nov-2002 Taylor Woodrow is to relocate its headquarters from Staines to the Bryant Homes office in Solihull, as part of a reorganisation that will also involve 180 job losses and the Edinburgh and Glasgow offices being replaced by one in Livingston. 11-Sep-2002 Taylor Woodrow has acquired Journey Homes of Phoenix, Arizona, for £29m, in order to expand its housebuilding operations in the US. 11-Sep-2002 Taylor Woodrow has sold the UK tower crane hire business of Taywood Plant to Kier Plant for £2.4m, in order to focus on housing, property, construction and engineering. 19-Feb-2002 Taylor Woodrow is seeking planning permission to build a £130m urban village at the headquarters of its construction division in west London, which will include new and refurbished offices for its 700 staff. 20-Dec-2001 Taylor Woodrow is seeking permission to build an 11-storey green building powered by the wind and the sun, as part of a new £130m village in Manchester city centre. 29-Oct-2001 Taylor Woodrow is to sell its Australian housebuilding business to Stockland for £31m, in order to focus on the UK and North America. 06-Jul-2001 Taylor Woodrow has been selected as preferred bidder to build a £10m medical and dental centre for the Ministry of Defence at Tidworth Garrison in Hampshire. 28-Jun-2001 Taylor Woodrow, the housebuilder, is considering plans to expand the range of services offered to customers by introducing kitchen fittings and mortgages. 14-Mar-2001 Taylor Woodrow has announced plans to restructure its housebuilding operations following the acquisition of Bryant Homes, and there will be four regional divisions controlled by the former Bryant head office in Solihull. 07-Feb-2001 Taylor Woodrow has reached agreement for the £535m acquisition of Bryant to create a new group building 6,000 UK homes a year. 23-Jan-2001 Bryant has rejected a £499m takeover approach from Taylor Woodrow, and will instead continue with its planned merger with Beazer to create a combined housebuilding group under the Domus name. 12-Jan-2001 Taylor Woodrow has sold Greenham Trading, the supplier of cleaning supplies, to Bunzl for £76m, and the proceeds will be invested in its property development business. 31-Jul-2000 Taylor Woodrow has won a contract to build a new £20m 16,000 seater stand at West Ham United's Upton Park football stadium. 25-Jul-2000 Taylor Woodrow has won a £10m contract to build the second phase of Doncaster's Earth Centre science project, which will include a theme park. 04-May-2000 Taylor Woodrow is acquiring the remaining 45% of Canadian housebuilder Monarch Development, in a deal worth £89m. 12-Apr-2000 Tesco has awarded a £37m contract to Taylor Woodrow for the construction of a frozen food distribution centre in Daventry. 28-Mar-2000 Taylor Woodrow is planning to move away from construction and focus on house building and property, with the loss of about 500 jobs in its construction division. 09-Mar-2000 Taylor Woodrow has sold Greenham Construction Materials to Robert Brett & Sons of Canterbury for £30m. 08-Mar-2000 Taylor Woodrow is to build a £19m cinema and hotel complex in Swansea. 02-Mar-2000 Taylor Woodrow and Athanaeum Developments have submitted plans for a £25m family entertainment complex in Sunderland city centre, which could create up to 300 jobs. 15-Oct-1999 Taylor Woodrow is planning a £100m redevelopment of the Europe House office complex in London's St Katharine Docks, which will include 15,000 sq ft of ground level retail and restaurant space. 13-Oct-1999 Taylor Woodrow is seeking permission to build a £10m supermarket at Sandiacre in Derbyshire. 02-Oct-1999 Taylor Woodrow is linking up with Centros Miller and British Land to plan a £150m redevelopment of Portsmouth city centre. 02-Sep-1999 Taylor Woodrow Property has acquired Waterlooville's proposed £14m Dukes Walk shopping centre development, at a cost of £3.5m. 19-Aug-1999 Taylor Woodrow is to shed 250 jobs by pulling out of the process engineering market, and it will either close or sell Birtley Engineering in Chesterfield with the loss of 70 jobs. 17-May-1999 Tesco has awarded contracts worth about £15m to Taylor Woodrow for the construction of supermarkets in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gainsborough. 08-Apr-1999 Taylor Woodrow is planning to double the size of its housing business over the next five years, while it will reduce its exposure to the higher-risk general contracting market. 17-Mar-1999 Taylor Woodrow has won a £10m contract to build a glass factory at Selby for Saint Gobain UK. 17-Dec-1998 Taylor Woodrow has sold its windfarm business First Windfarm to Westbury Windfarms, the joint venture between Foras Energy and International Wind Projects, for £5m. 04-Dec-1998 Taylor Woodrow is to build a £155m 500-bed hospital near Bromley under the private finance initiative, in partnership with Innisfree and Barclays UK Infrastructure Fund. 21-Nov-1998 Taylor Woodrow is to cut 90 jobs in its Taymel, Taymech and Taywood divisions. 08-Oct-1998 Taylor Woodrow has won a £14m contract to build the World of Glass visitor centre and museum in St Helens. 01-Oct-1998 Taylor Woodrow is close to winning a contract to build and operate a £120m private hospital in Farnborough, Kent, and is in the final stages of negotiation with the Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust. 24-Aug-1998 Taylor Woodrow has identified a number of unnamed potential acquisition targets in the housebuilding sector. 25-Mar-1998 Taylor Woodrow is discussing the sale of its wind energy business to NEG Micon of Denmark, including two turbine manufacturing subsidiaries but not including its three wind farms. 25-Feb-1998 Taylor Woodrow Construction is to reorganise its worldwide business into five divisions - Europe Building, Europe Civil Engineering, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Worldwide Engineering. 11-Feb-1998 Taylor Woodrow has won a £3.75m contract to build a new stand for Birmingham City football club. 04-Dec-1997 Taylor Woodrow has begun a major review of its construction division in order to focus on projects with higher margins. 17-Sep-1997 Taylor Woodrow is buying 16.5 acres of residential land north of San Francisco at a cost of £4.6m, and hopes to expand further into this area in the future. 01-Aug-1997 South Buckinghamshire NHS Trust is to redevelop Amersham hospital and build a new wing at High Wycombe hospital, in a £35m scheme involving the government's private finance initiative, Taylor Woodrow and United Healthcare. 22-Oct-1996 Taylor Woodrow is to combine its UK and overseas businesses into one single division. 05-Jun-1996 Taylor Woodrow is planning to dispose of a third of its £350m commercial property investment assets in the UK as part of a restructuring process. 27-Mar-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007