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Yorkshire Group Yorkshire Group is to sell part of its US-based textile dyes business to DyStar for £4.8m. 04-Feb-2004 Yorkshire Group is to withdraw from commodity textile dye production in the UK with the loss of 90 jobs, and production will be concentrated at one of its Leeds sites. 09-Jan-2002 Yorkshire Group has acquired the global textile dyes and the European industrial dyes business of Crompton & Knowles of the US, in a deal worth about £50m. 11-May-2000 Yorkshire Group is to acquire the dyes business of CK Witco for £54m, which will give it market leadership in the US and a manufacturing base in continental Europe. 30-Nov-1999 Yorkshire Group is in negotiations to acquire an unnamed dyes company that would more than double its size. 13-Oct-1999 Yorkshire Group has acquired Viochrom, the Greek dyes company, for £12.8m. 05-Jan-1999 Yorkshire Group is looking to invest up to £100m in the creation of a global dyes business, and is seeking acquisitions and joint venture partners in the US and Asia. 07-Apr-1998 Yorkshire Group is looking at the possibility of acquisitions and joint ventures in the dyes sector in south-east Asia, and has £50m of net cash following recent disposals. 16-Sep-1997 Yorkshire Group is selling its Australasian inks and pigments business to Huls America for £23m, and its UK pigments dispersions business to Holliday Chemical for £1.8m, and now plans to start looking for acquisitions. 02-Sep-1997 BTP is acquiring the leather and speciality chemicals division of Yorkshire Group for £33m, allowing Yorkshire to focus on its core textile dyes business. 01-Sep-1997 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007