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...Covance, the US clinical research group, has slipped out of the 2,500 largest groups by market value, as has Securitas, the Sweden-based security group....
...“Numericable and Securitas Direct would have been very, very difficult to do towards the end of last year,” said another senior banker....
...Securitas Direct, a Swedish alarms maker, recently relaunched a long-delayed junk bond....
...Securitas Direct, a provider of burglar and assault alarms and smoke detection for private homes and small businesses, was spun out of Securitas Group in 2006 and was taken private two years later in a deal...
...She sits on the boards of Securitas, the Swedish security group, Volkswagen, the German carmaker, and Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer....
...deal sizes and volumes in the first half of this year remained a far cry from 2007 levels, debt markets had become almost as aggressive as four years ago – culminating this summer in the €2.3bn buy-out of Securitas...
...“We experienced the same issues as Securitas – price pressure, etc. But some quarters you win, some quarters you lose.”...
...the Securitas dispatch centre....
...Bankers are eyeing potential issues from RAC, bought by Carlyle, Securitas Direct, acquired by Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman, and Polkomtel, Poland’s second largest mobile phone operator, taken over...
...Other competitors include catering groups Sodexho of France and Compass of the UK, as well as Securitas, the Swedish security group....
...Morgan Stanley also turned more cautious on G4S , which closed 0.4 per cent weaker at 280¾p after the broker said there was more value in Swedish peer Securitas....
...RBS was selling 141m shares on behalf of the family trust of the Philip-Sorensens, the founders of Securitas....
...Lundbeck, and Novozymes of Denmark; Stora Enso, Amer Sports, and Pohjola Pankki of Finland; and Alfa Laval, Securitas, and SSAB of Sweden....
...The security services group gained 1.4 per cent to 213½p in reaction to results from Securitas, its Swedish rival. Securitas posted flat organic sales and said the economy remained difficult....
...Private equity fuelled gains in Stockholm, with Securitas Direct surging 27.4 per cent to SKr26.50 after receiving a SKr9.6bn takeover bid, the biggest private equity bid in continental Europe since the...
...Group 4 Securicor was marked 3.8 per cent higher at 195½p excited by rumours that rival Securitas could be a takeover target for Industri Kapital, a Swedish private equity group....
...Securitas climbed 1.6 per cent to SKr127.50 on news Alf Goransson will be the new chief of the world’s biggest security company....
...Securitas, the Swedish provider of security services, fell 11.2 per cent to SKr118.50 after Thomas Berglund, chief executive, quit following a more than 50 per cent slump in second-quarter net income....
...Securitas, the Swedish provider of security services, endured a weekly fall of 14.9 per cent to SKr117 after Thomas Berglund, chief executive, quit following a more than 50 per cent slump in second-quarter...
...Securitas, the Swedish security services company, added 1.6 per cent to SKr154 on reports that four risk capital investors were interested in buying its Loomis cash handling unit....
...Group4 Securicor gained 4 per cent to 177p after results from Swedish rival Securitas beat expectations. Great Portland Estates added 3.9 per cent to 429p after backing from Merrill Lynch....
...Shares in Sweden's Securitas, the world's biggest security group, raced up 3.6 per cent in and initial response to an impressive set of second-quarter numbers which showed pre-tax profits up 36 per cent...
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