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    GKN PLC

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    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      GKN automotive business falls 20% on first day of London trading

      IPO in London comes as market struggles to compete with global rivals

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      LexMelrose Industries PLC
      Melrose/GKN: demerger reflects weakness of auto sector Premium content

      Handing investors shares in this unglamorous car business is a departure for the private equity group

      GKN flag outside its headquarters in Redditch
    • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
      LexMelrose Industries PLC
      Melrose: smelling sweeter as GKN fructifies Premium content

      Interim results show the company is doing most of what its executives said they would

      A Melrose factory worker
    • Saturday, 21 March, 2020
      Coronavirus
      UK government to decide on how to fill shortage of ventilators

      Companies enlisted to make thousands of critical machines ahead of expected influx of patients

      Gtech undated handout photo of their prototype Ventilator. The company which specialises in making home and garden appliances has designed a medical ventilator to be used in hospitals in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. PA Photo. Issue date: Friday March 20, 2020. Gtech said the ventilator could be manufactured in a "matter of days", amid concerns that critical care facilities in the UK will come under pressure as the crisis intensifies. See PA story HEALTH Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Gtech/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
    • Sunday, 19 January, 2020
      Electric vehicles
      Electric car boom drives GKN-Delta link-up

      Partnership will enable automotive component supplier to offer more scalable systems

      File photo dated 04/07/11 of a GKN sign, as investment giant Melrose has offered to inject up to £1 billion into the pension scheme of GKN which is said to be almost twice the amount of GKN's plans to reduce the deficit in the scheme. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday March 19, 2018. GKN shareholders will decide on March 29 whether to accept Melrose's bid for the company. See PA story INDUSTRY GKN. Photo credit should read: David Davies/PA Wire
    • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
      LexMergers & Acquisitions
      Melrose/GKN: visceral venture Premium content

      UK industrial specialist is a healthy business in an unhealthy environment

    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      Melrose Industries PLC
      Melrose bonus award perplexes staff at factory marked for closure

      GKN aircraft parts unit set to close by 2021 despite improved performance last year

      An employee works on a section of wing for an Airbus SAS A380 aircraft, a unit of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EADS), at GKN Plc's Aerospace factory in Filton, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. GKN completed its acquisition of Volvo AB's aircraft-engine unit, Volvo Aero, for 633 million pounds to tap demand for lightweight composite parts and narrow the gap with competitors such as Safran SA, earlier this month. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
    • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
      Melrose Industries PLC
      Melrose Industries to invest more than £250m in electric cars

      UK group outlines ambition to boost margins in aerospace and automotive units

      Melrose image from their website - Global HVAC
    • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
      LexMelrose Industries PLC
      Melrose: drive strain Premium content

      Deteriorating automotive backdrop will make a difficult and unpopular job even tougher

    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
      Melrose Industries PLC
      Melrose Industries takes first steps towards breaking up GKN

      Turnround specialist’s move quells doubts over ability to cash in after £8bn hostile takeover

      The GKN Aerospace logo is seen on the overalls of an employee as he works on a trailing wing edge of an Airbus SAS A380 aircraft, a unit of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EADS), at GKN Plc's factory in Filton, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. GKN completed its acquisition of Volvo AB's aircraft-engine unit, Volvo Aero, for 633 million pounds to tap demand for lightweight composite parts and narrow the gap with competitors such as Safran SA, earlier this month. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
    • Monday, 26 November, 2018
      LexMelrose Industries PLC
      Melrose: metal fatigue Premium content

      Turnround specialist should give its GKN project more time

      BRUSH TURBOGENERATORS: Welding the inner support structure of the stator frame during fabrication
									MELROSE INDUSTRIES
    • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
      UK companies
      Melrose swings to loss after GKN takeover

      Investors welcome news of no ‘black holes’ after hotly contested £8bn acquisition

      A company branded flag flies outside GKN Plc's company headquarters in Redditch, U.K., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Yet another corporate headache has landed on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s lap in the shape of Melrose Industries Plc’s hostile 8.1 billion pound ($11.4 billion) takeover of government contractor GKN. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
      LexMergers & Acquisitions
      Melrose/GKN: Simon says relax Premium content

      The buyout chief is soothing nerves over the impact of the £8bn purchase

      Melrose PLC Picture shows Simon Peckham (Chief Executive), PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIEL JONES 2018 07815 853503 info@danieljonesphotography.co.uk www.danieljonesphotography.co.uk
    • Monday, 27 August, 2018
      Companies
      Melrose puts $800m sale of US subsidiary on hold

      Delay raises questions of funding the GKN pension scheme

      Pedestrians walk into GKN Plc's company headquarters in Redditch, U.K., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Yet another corporate headache has landed on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s lap in the shape of Melrose Industries Plc’s hostile 8.1 billion pound ($11.4 billion) takeover of government contractor GKN. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Monday, 16 July, 2018
      Markets InsightUS & Canadian companies
      Long-term investors are not the enemy for European company chiefs

      With buyout funds on the prowl there is a benefit in engagement

    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      Inside LondonNeil Collins
      It’s time for Melrose directors to take greater responsibility

      Now they’re in the premier league, they need to adjust when it comes to rewards

    • Wednesday, 2 May, 2018
      UK companies
      Melrose faces potential shareholder revolt on executive pay

      Four top bosses at company behind GKN takeover received at least £42m each in 2017

      Melrose - Brush Engineers installing safety clamps prior to a rotar heat run
    • Wednesday, 25 April, 2018
      LombardMatthew Vincent
      Sky, Whitbread and Shire deals test government’s taste for M&A

      Moves highlight new potential hypocrisies for dealing with cross-border transactions

      Including the value of Shire’s debt, the deal is worth more than $80bn, according to data from Dealogic
    • Tuesday, 24 April, 2018
      UK companies
      Clark clears Melrose Industries’ £8bn GKN takeover

      Business secretary secures binding undertakings on future of target’s defence business

      A company branded flag flies outside GKN Plc's company headquarters in Redditch, U.K., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Yet another corporate headache has landed on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s lap in the shape of Melrose Industries Plc’s hostile 8.1 billion pound ($11.4 billion) takeover of government contractor GKN. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Tuesday, 24 April, 2018
      Aerospace & Defence
      UK government will not intervene in Melrose-GKN takeover
    • Tuesday, 24 April, 2018
      fastFTMatthew Vincent
      Opening Quote: LSE - performance over drama; Melrose - ‘I told you so’
      epa06572095 (FILE) - A file photograph showing the sign for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) during trading in London, Britain, 09 November 2016 (re-issued 01 March 2018). The London Stock Exchange Group is to release their preliminary results for year ended 31 December 2017 on 02 March 2018. EPA/WILL OLIVER
    • Tuesday, 24 April, 2018
      UK companies
      Melrose ‘still confident’ in GKN prospects after drab quarter

      Turnround group sees validation of its analysis that GKN was struggling for profits

    • Thursday, 19 April, 2018
      UK defence industry
      UK government to wave through GKN takeover

      Melrose bid avoids referral to competition authority after no security concerns found

      British Royal Navy and Royal Air Force pilots fly a F35B Lightning as it refuels from a RAF Voyager over the skies of Charleston in the U.S. April 10, 2018. Picture taken April 10, 2018. Ken Pike/MOD/Handout via REUTERS - ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
    • Wednesday, 18 April, 2018
      UK economy
      CBI questions role of speculators in takeover battles

      Business group calls for a review of the rules after Melrose-GKN deal

      GKN Aerospace Fokker Wiring Systems from website
    • Tuesday, 10 April, 2018
      The FT ViewShare buybacks
      Takeover defences will not stop short-termism

      The problem goes deeper than the predations of ‘vulture’ investors

      C0F1HP Smucker's and other jams and jellies in a supermarket
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