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Waddington Waddington, the packaging and printing group, has received a £318m agreed bid from John Mansfield, and a takeover battle could now develop. 08-Dec-1999 Waddington, the printing and packaging group, has received a takeover approach from its management. 21-Sep-1999 Waddington, the packaging company, is seeking UK acquisitions in all three of its divisions - pharmaceutical, food services and printing - and could spend up to £100m. 27-Nov-1998 Waddington is looking to sell its cartons business due to overcapacity in the sector, and hopes to complete the sale within six months. 09-Jun-1998 Waddington has sold its Waddington Arcol protective foam packaging business to Padiham Group for £6.6m. 14-Apr-1998 Waddington has acquired Trans Container Corporation, the Californian manufacturer of plastic bottles for pills, for £20m, in order to complement its existing healthcare packaging business on the other side of the US. 04-Feb-1998 Waddington, the food services and packaging company, is to increase capital expenditure to £40m this year in order to cope with rising demand, with £6m going on its US food services business for the supply of ready cooked meals to Boston Markets. 22-Nov-1996 John Waddington expects to make further acquisitions in packaging and printing this year and has set aside £30m for investment. 06-Jun-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007