KBB Births Deaths and Deals
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UK DIY chain Homebase has been sold by its owner Home Retail Group to Australian retail giant Wesfarmers for £340m. Wesfarmers already owns Bunnings - one of Australia's largest suppliers ...
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Haier Group said it would buy General Electric Co's appliance business for $5.4 billion (£3.7bn), the Chinese company's latest attempt to boost its presence in the lucrative United States market. ...
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Bauknecht is ending its partnership with In-toto as a result of a “strategic review” by owner Whirlpool UK Appliances following Whirlpool Corporation's acquisition of Indesit Group in July 2014, according ...
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US appliance giant Whirlpool approached Aga on September 1 and was in talks over an offer to match the now sole remaining bid from Middleby, an Illinois cooking and industrial ...
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Rixonway Kitchens has secured a £7m contract with the City and County of Swansea, which the company says is one of its biggest ever contracts. The kitchen supplier has been ...
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Gorenje has invested in customer relationship management software Salesforce, which it says will “streamline its service for its customers across the UK”. According to Gorenje and KBB Daily, the software ...
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Snaidero Group have announced that after intensive negotiations, it has signed the agreement for the sale to the German Kitchens Group Nobilia, the controlling block of shares of FBD, the ...
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The former furniture giant MFI which was re-launched as an online retailer following its demise in December 2008 and whose name was bought by plumbing company the Walker Group for ...
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Year-on-year growth for Wrexham-based kitchen company BK Nolte Contracts – BKNC – has led German kitchen manufacturer Nolte Kuchen to make a multimillion-pound investment in the kitchen company to acquire ...
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Canburg – owner of luxury furniture businesses Smallbone of Devizes and Mark Wilkinson Furniture – has secured an £8 million capital investment from Business Growth Fund (BGF), on of the ...