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Wolseley is to sell its Irish building materials business to WIBHM for £24m, with the transfer of 650 staff at 67 branches. 12-Jan-2010 Wolseley is to close its building products distribution centres in Chorley and Didcot, with the loss of 269 jobs. 04-May-2009 Wolseley is to close 200 of its 1,900 building materials branches in the UK and Ireland over the next few months, with the loss of about 2,300 jobs. 19-Nov-2008 Wolseley is to shed 84 head office and support jobs at its builders and plumbers merchant operations in Leamington Spa and Ripon. 09-Sep-2008 Wolseley is considering plans to shed up to 15% of the 14,000-strong workforce in its UK building and plumbing products business. 17-Jul-2008 Wolseley is expected to shed hundreds of jobs from its plumbing and building materials business over the coming months, due to falling sales in the UK and US. 18-Mar-2008 Wolseley has acquired five bolt-on acquisitions for a total £33m, including PFC Corofil Firestops of Surrey, JC Plumbing, Precision Doors & Hardware and Mastercraft Cabinets of the US and Gama Myjava of Slovakia. 11-Mar-2008 Wolseley is to shed a further 1,300 jobs in its heating and plumbing business, in response to difficult trading conditions in the US. 30-Nov-2007 Wolseley has announced five bolt-on acquisitions for a total £84m, including Architectural Building Supply Company, Jacobi Hardware, KBC Construction and JD's Wholesale Plumbing in the US and Sofiparts in France. 09-Nov-2007 Wolseley has acquired five companies for a total £87m, including T&R Electrical Wholesalers of London, ProSource Building Supply of Texas, Western Air Systems & Controls of California, Davidson Pipe Company of New York and PBS of Sweden. 12-Sep-2007 Wolseley is to set up a new £17m regional distribution facility at the former Royal Ordnance site in Chorley, and Pochin Contractors will complete work on the 310,000 sq ft building by November. 02-May-2007 Wolseley UK is to restructure its Plumb Center, Build Center and Brandon Hire depots with the loss of up to 150 jobs in Leamington Spa and the closure of 47 of the 1,900 branches. 09-Apr-2007 Wolseley has announced six new acquisitions for a total £27m, including Hudson Plumbing Supplies of Canada, Onda-Lay Pipe & Rental of the US, Page's Appliances of the US, Tonto Verde Construction of the US, Atout K-RO of France and Etablissments Pochon Felix of France. 21-Dec-2006 Wolseley has acquired six companies for £61m, including Gulf Refrigeration Supply, Kandall Fabricating & Supply, Lee Window & Door and Perfection Truss of the US, Woodcote of the Czech Republic and Hjalmars of Sweden. 03-Nov-2006 Wolseley has expanded its plumbing and heating products business with the £111m acquisition of three US companies - Lawrence Plumbing, Murdock ECD and Northern Water Works Supply - and Finnish kitchen cabinet distributor Helatukku. 10-Oct-2006 Wolseley has acquired six companies for a total £36m, including Lunts Heath of Widnes, parts of Martin Architectural, Water Works Supplies and Palermo Supply of the US, Depont Materiaux of France and Marmon Keystone Anbuma of Belgium. 17-Aug-2006 Wolseley is to acquire DT Group, the Danish building materials company, from CVC Capital Partners for £1bn. 25-Jul-2006 Wolseley has spent a further £89m on seven acquisitions, including Ivybridge Building Supplies of Devon and a number of US-based distributors of plumbing and heating products. 22-Jun-2006 Wolseley is to rebrand its Hire Center branches under the recently-acquired Brandon Hire name, creating a combined network of 270 sites. 31-May-2006 Wolseley has acquired a number of US companies for £49m, including Efficient Electric, United Electric, United Plumbing, DSI and Davies Water Equipment Company. 05-May-2006 Wolseley has acquired AC Electrical, the electrical products distributor with 40 branches, for £18m, as well as K&R Building Supplies of Penzance and US-based companies Davis Homes and Pipe Products. 25-Apr-2006 Wolseley has acquired Nevill Long, the supplier of interior building products with nine branches, from James Latham for £10m. 05-Apr-2006 Wolseley is to acquire Brandon Hire, the chain of 143 tool hire outlets, for £72m. 29-Mar-2006 Wolseley is looking to expand its electrical products business across the country through organic growth and acquisitions, following its acquisition of William Wilson in Scotland. 11-Jan-2006 Wolseley is looking to set up a new building materials distribution centre near Manchester, while its West Horndon site in Essex will focus on winning work for the 2012 Olympics. 09-Nov-2005 Wolseley has acquired William Wilson, the plumbing and heating products distributor with 600 staff at 45 branches in Scotland and the north of England, for £81m. 02-Nov-2005 Wolseley has acquired Encon, the insulation products distributor with 22 branches and 550 staff, for £140m. 25-Oct-2005 Wolseley has spent a further £33m on acquisitions, including a French roofing materials company, an Italian plumbing and heating company and two US-based suppliers of plumbing products. 14-Feb-2005 Wolseley is to invest £100m in the expansion of its plumbing and heating network, including a new national distribution centre in Leamington Spa. 12-Jan-2005 Wolseley has acquired Klockner, the Austrian steel stockholder, as well as US-based fire equipment company Clark Group and home appliances distributor Cline Contract Sales. 06-Sep-2004 Wolseley, the building materials company, has confirmed plans to relocate its head office from North Yorkshire to the Tachbrook estate near Leamington Spa next summer, and more than 600 staff will be based at the new £11m site. 24-Aug-2004 Wolseley is to acquire Brooks Group, the Irish builders' merchant with 18 branches, from UPM-Kymmene for £120m. 02-Aug-2004 Wolseley UK is to create 30 jobs at a new building materials depot in Middlesbrough, the first of its new generation of Trade Park developments. 09-Jul-2004 Wolseley, the building materials group, is to relocate its corporate functions to an undisclosed location in Warwick, and up to 1,100 staff will be transferred from 11 regional offices over the next 18 months. 07-May-2004 Wolseley has acquired Tobler Management Holding, the Swiss supplier of heating and ventilation products with 600 staff and 21 branches, for £52m. 02-Dec-2003 Wolseley has acquired three US plumbing, heating and building materials companies for £14m - Liberty Equipment & Supply, Nuroc and JM Lumber. 23-Sep-2003 Wolseley is planning to acquire Pinault Bois & Materiaux, the French distributor of building materials with 5,300 staff, for £390m. 25-Apr-2003 Wolseley has acquired four companies in the US and Canada for £37m, including three heating, plumbing and valve businesses and a lumber business. 30-Jan-2003 Wolseley Centers has acquired Brooks Group, the chain of 11 timber merchant branches in the Midlands and north of England. 21-Aug-2002 Wolseley has acquired a number of plastic pipe distribution companies from Glynwed Pipe Systems for £23m. 22-Jul-2002 Wolseley has acquired Wasco Group, the Dutch heating equipment and spares distributor, for £38m. 05-Jul-2002 Wolseley has acquired four more building material distributors for £10m - Sumner & Dunbar and Tahoe Truckee Supply of the US, Brock Engineering of Canada and O'Rourke Plumbing Supplies of Northern Ireland. 25-Jun-2002 Wolseley is to acquire Clayton Acquisition, the US distributor of storm-drainage materials, for £77m, in order to gain a foothold in the Florida market. 19-Apr-2002 Wolseley is looking to spend up to £300m on acquisitions to expand its builders' merchants business over the coming months. 20-Mar-2002 Wolseley is to relocate its building materials headquarters and up to 20 staff from Droitwich to Reading in January. 25-Oct-2001 Wolseley is to acquire Westburne Group, the Canadian supplier of plumbing equipment, for £250m, as part of a strategy to expand its presence in the North American construction industry. 24-May-2001 Ascot, the chemical engineering group, has accepted a £305m takeover bid from Dow Chemical of the US, and has also announced the sale of Nationwide Refrigeration Supplies to Wolseley for £22m. 30-Mar-2001 Wolseley is selling off its boiler and burner manufacturing operations, which employ 2,000 people in Europe, in order to focus on builders' merchants. 05-Feb-2001 Wolseley has acquired Atkinson Builders Merchants, and will merge the 11 north-east outlets with its Builder Center division. 28-Sep-2000 Wolseley is looking to spend about £200m on acquisitions over the next year, in order to expand its building materials business in Europe and the US. 27-Sep-2000 Wolseley is selling a number of manufacturing businesses to Cinven for up to £136m, including agricultural, industrial, motor, cable, and photographic operations. 26-Apr-2000 Wolseley is to acquire Anderson Lumber Company of the US for £108m, in order to expand its building materials business into seven new states. 05-Apr-2000 Wolseley has sold its boiler and burner business to Industri Kapital of Sweden for £87m, which will involve the transfer of 250 employees at Nu-Way in Droitwich. 02-Nov-1999 Wolseley has bought four companies for a combined £46m in order to expand its building and plumbing products business, including two in the US, one in Italy and one in the UK. 27-Jul-1999 Wolseley, the building materials company, is to acquire British Fittings for £40m, in order to expand its distribution business. 08-May-1999 Wolseley has acquired five businesses for a total £38m, including heating and plumbing products in Ireland, wall panels in the US, and a sanitary ware distributor in Lancashire. 19-Feb-1999 Wolseley is acquiring Brossette, the French plumbing distributor, and four US companies, bringing its total spending on acquisitions to £178m in the first five months of the financial year. 08-Jan-1999 Wolseley is considering plans to spend up to £300m on acquisitions to expand its building materials distribution business in continental Europe and the US. 21-Oct-1998 Wolseley is to acquire the Hall & Co building materials business from RMC for about £120m, and will merge it with its Builder Center division. 26-Aug-1998 Wolseley is to merge its two heating and plumbing products businesses in the US in order to cut costs in response to cheap imports from Asia. 19-Jun-1998 Wolseley is acquiring three US building materials companies for a total £68m, including the Stock Lumber timber business, the Forward Enterprises pipe distribution business, and the Tozour Energy heating and ventilating business. 03-Jun-1998 Carclo Engineering has acquired the Wipac electrical components business from Wolseley for £2.3m. 23-May-1998 Wolseley, the heating and pumping equipment company, has sold Hunterskil Howard, its contract staff placement business, to AccuStaff for £45m. 06-Nov-1997 Wolseley, the builders merchant, is acquiring Bandt's Brown & Tawse business, for £15.6m. 16-Dec-1996 Wolseley, the building materials distributor, has raised £68m in a share placing in order to fund acquisitions. 19-Apr-1996
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