A takeover battle looked set to erupt yesterday for Brake Brothers, the UK's biggest supplier of frozen foods to restaurants, after an agreed £434m cash offer from a private equity group provoked a ...

ONE of Kent's most successful business families, Brake Bros, is thinking of selling up. Shares in the chilled and frozen food group rose as chairman Frank Brake, 68, revealed that he was planning to ...

UK catering group Brake Brothers effectively put itself on the market yesterday when it announced it had appointed Credit Suisse First Boston to carry out a strategic review. The move was prompted by ...

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Brake Bros plc, a leading food supplier to the UK and French catering industries, has announced the acquisition of two more strategically important regional wholesalers in France, for a total ...

Brake Bros has agreed to sell its business to US-based equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice for £433.7m. The sale comes after the foodservice supplier’s strategic review of its business which was ...

Brake Bros' chairman Frank Brake is retiring from the company he helped found and his fellow family shareholders are considering selling the company. Family members own 58 per cent of the shares and ...

WATSON & Philip took a hammering yesterday when welcome news that it was jettisoning its Foodservice catering supply business - to focus almost exclusively on its Alldays convenience stores - was ...

The Board of Tritax Big Box REIT plc (ticker: BBOX) is pleased to announce that it has exchanged contracts on a regional distribution centre at Flex Meadow, Harlow, let to Brake Bros Ltd ("Brake Bros" ...

Private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc. agreed to acquire frozen food wholesaler Brake Bros. PLC of the United Kingdom for $653 million (€673), plus the assumption of $267 million in ...

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