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Gala leaves Tote chase
Bookmaker Gala Coral has bowed out of the race to buy the Tote. According to reports, the Nottingham-headquartered company failed to submit a formal bid to purchase the state-owned bookie chain by the 25 March deadline. Gala had previously been one of the favourites to snap up the Wigan-headquartered Tote.
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Deals
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Insider's March Deal of the Month
Midlands Business Insider's assistant editor Sam Metcalf analyses Nottingham-based Staffline's latest move on its ever expanding acquisition trail.
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Keltruck motors on with Silurian merger
Keltruck, the Scania dealership which operates from sites across the East Midlands, has merged with Silurian Scania. The moves comes after Keltruck bought shares in south Wales-based Silurian at the beginning of the year.
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Driver steers African JV
Driver Group Africa, which has its UK headquarters in Northampton, has signed a joint venture agreement with Australian business Evans & Peck. Under the agreement, the companies will work together on energy, resource and infrastructure projects in Africa.
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Property
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Dune Group steps onto Whittle Estate
Footwear retailer Dune Group has taken a 43,000 sq ft unit at Highcross’s Whittle Estate near Leicester. The Dune Group, which includes the Dune, Bertie and Chelsea Cobbler brands, said it will be using the premises for storage and dispatch for its e-commerce business.
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Fields of gold, says Savills
Investment-motivated purchases have more than doubled on farmland. That’s according to new research from East Midlands property agent Savills.
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Business
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K-Form signs Mexican deal
Woodford Halse-based business K-Form has landed a £60,000-a-month contract with a Mexican company that it says will help double its staff to 16 over the next year. The news comes as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have committed to double bilateral trade to £4.2bn by 2015.
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Stevens steps up at Dains
Derby-based law firm Dains has promoted Andrew Stevens to director of its business recovery and insolvency team. Stevens has been with the firm since 2007 and specialises in corporate restructuring, turnaround services and insolvency.
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Private equity backed companies focus on growth
Private equity (PE) owned companies have continued to grow turnover and staff numbers during the downturn, according to a report and survey published by PwC.
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April Fool!
Did you spot our April Fools' Day story about the "major deal done for an undisclosed sum"? Congratulations if you noticed our 1 April spoof by our "Insider correspondent". If you missed it, we have republished it today.
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Community
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In focus: Child’s play
The government's latest initiative to get Britain back on its feet is StartUp Britain. But, asks Sam Metcalf, is giving children a tenner really the road to economic recovery?
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Talking Point: Retirement from a small business is no minor issue
Owners of small businesses starting to plan their retirement need to look at three key areas where cash savings can be made or lost: staff, contractual arrangements and their leases, according to Neil Etherington, a commercial property partner at law firm Rothera Dowson.
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