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unusual facts about management buyout


Glacio

Through a Management buyout, the management takes over the company and its subsidiaries from Nestlé in 2003.


Harley-Davidson Evolution engine

Harley-Davidson's official name for the engine was likely related to the company's attempt to reform its image following the 1981 management buyout from previous owner American Machine and Foundry (AMF).

Stratus Technologies

The enterprise server portion of the business was of little interest to Ascend and that portion was spun off in a management buyout in 1999, with funding from international investment firm, Investcorp.

Virago Press

In 1982 Virago became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head, and Cape Group, but in 1987 Callil, Lennie Goodings, Ursula Owen, Alexandra Pringle, and Harriet Spicer put together a management buy-out from CVBC, then owned by Random House, USA.


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Aramark

In 1983, Joseph Neubauer was elected CEO of ARA Services and a year later, in 1984, Neubauer led a group of executives to fend off a hostile takeover bid by coordinating a management buyout.

Kevin Bermeister

In 1992, Bermeister and Mark Dyne successfully led a management buyout, together with Sega Enterprises, to form Sega Ozisoft Pty Limited representing exclusively the world's largest video game publisher.

Victrex

The company was established in 1993 by way of a management buyout of the PEEK polymer business of Imperial Chemical Industries plc.

Yates's

When 30% of the Yates Group company shares were owned by the Dickson and Yates family, in June 2004 the company had a management buyout (MBO) offer funded by GI Partners.