Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in British engineer Bodycote rose by 8 per cent in early trade after it announced an agreement to sell ...

Engineer Bodycote’s decision to sell its testing business makes it vulnerable to a bid from a predator, analysts claimed yesterday. The Macclesfield-based company revealed that it had sold the ...

The 7.46am train from London to Wigan was full of excited Bodycote analysts and investors on Wednesday, eager to don goggles and traipse around the engineer's laboratories. Some 47 people made the ...

24 February 2007New facility will offer the latest in testing technology and provide a host of new services to clients Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Al-Futtaim Bodycote Testing LLC, a joint venture ...

ENGINEERING giant Bodycote today agreed to sell its testing division to an American private equity firm for £417m and said it would return £260m to its shareholders. The Macclesfield-based company ...

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LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - British engineer Bodycote has agreed to sell its testing business (BTG) to U.S. private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R) for 417 million pounds and will return ...

In response to the large investment in infrastructure being made in the Middle East, Dubai Civil Defence (DCD) and Bodycote Testing Group have signed a contract to set up and operate the first fire ...

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) - British engineer Bodycote International Plc said it planned to sell its materials testing businesses and focus on its heat treatment operations, lifting its shares to a ...

ENGINEERING giant Bodycote has received `significant' interest in its testing business - which it put up for sale last month with a £400m price tag. Shares in the Macclesfield group ticked up 1.5 per ...