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Peter Lawrence is chief executive and co-founder of small, diversified British company Lawrence, which went public in 1987. The group has grown through a series of well-timed acquisitions and divestments and currently consists of four businesses, namely Interpet, a pet accessory business; Blackfast Chemicals, specialist in metal blacking and finishing materials; Agil, a specialty chemical supplier; and ECO Animal Health, an animal feed and medicines company. An overview of Lawrence's merger and acquisition activity since 1987 is presented.
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Continental European companies made 156 purchases in the UK in 1995, compared with 112 in 1994. The value of these deals was 13.9 billion pounds sterling, from 3.6 billion pounds sterling. The strong rise in deal value is largely the result of high-profile deals such as the purchase of Fisons by Rhone-Poulenc and the purchase of Northumbrian Water by Lyonnaise des Eaux. Swiss and German companies were also involved in expensive acquisition deals.
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The number of half-year merger and acquisition activities in the U.K. in 1996 are equivalent to those that took place during the first six months of 1995, with acquisitions totalling 27.28 billion pounds sterling, against 25.02 billion pounds sterling in 1995. The number of management buyouts rose to 129, valued at nearly 1 billion, during the first half of 1996, against 98, worth 727 million pounds sterling, during same period 1995.
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