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Vp is to acquire Power Tool Supplies, the Brighton-based tool hire company, for £1.1m, in order to expand its Hill Station subsidiary. 24-Oct-2008 Vp has acquired the Lincoln-based tools and telehandler fleet of UCS Plant for £0.9m. 14-Jul-2008 Vp has acquired Arcotherm, the supplier of air conditioners with branches in Stoke-on-Trent and Oxford, for £0.7m, as well as DJ Tool Hire of County Durham. 08-May-2008 Vp has acquired Redding Hire, the Northamptonshire-based construction equipment rental firm, for £2.9m. 07-Apr-2008 Vp has acquired U Mole, the Cambridgeshire-based supplier of trenchless installation equipment, for £4.5m. 03-Apr-2008 Vp has acquired Northern Site Services, the Middlesbrough-based supplier of temporary lighting and site electrics, for £1.6m. 07-Mar-2008 Vp has acquired Underground Safety Services and Pipe Testing Accessories of Ireland for £0.6m, as well as Able Safety Yorkshire for £0.7m. 19-Nov-2007 Vp has acquired the business and assets of First Engineering's Glasgow-based small plant division for £1.2m, in order to expand its Torrent Trackside rail infrastructure equipment division. 16-Oct-2007 Vp has acquired ET Hire's tool hire operations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Livingston for £1.1m, in order to expand its Hire Station subsidiary. 08-Aug-2007 Vp has acquired Cool Customers, the Alfreton-based supplier of air conditioning units, for £1m, in order to expand its Hire Station tool hire business. 19-Apr-2007 Vp has acquired MEP Hire, the Scottish supplier of press fitting, electro fusion and pipe threading machines, in order to expand its Hire Station tool hire subsidiary. 07-Nov-2006 Vp has acquired Bukom General Oilfield Services, the supplier of compressors, boilers, heat exchangers and other equipment, for £5.7m, in order to expand its Airpac division. 09-Mar-2006 Vp has acquired Dudley Vale, the supplier of piling equipment with sites in Croydon and Oldham, from GE Equipment Services for £3.5m. 29-Nov-2005 Vp has acquired Trax Portable Access, the Worksop-based supplier of portable roads and barriers, for an initial £11m. 08-Nov-2005 Vp has acquired ESS Safety Services and Pivotal Training from Babcock International for £4.5m, in order to expand its Hire Station safety products business. 26-Jul-2005 Vp is looking to spend up to £30m on acquisitions to expand its equipment rental business. 06-Dec-2004 Peterhouse has sold Eve Shorco, its piling and trench support equipment rental business with sites in Glasgow, Andover and the Midlands, to Vp for £2.1m. 16-Mar-2004 Vp has acquired the laser and survey rental business of Sokkia, including premises in Crawley, Crewe and Coleshill, for £1.2m. 02-Mar-2004 Vp has acquired Trench Shore, the supplier of shoring products to the construction industry, for £2.7m. 15-Jul-2003 Vp has raised £1.5m from the sale of the compressed air unit hire fleet of its Airpac Onshore division to Rentair. 28-Nov-2002 Vp, the equipment outsourcing specialist, has acquired the assets and goodwill of the shoring business of Mechplant from the Shepherd Building Group for £3.1m. 23-Oct-2001
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