Woodward FoodService Ltd.

Interest in asset-based lending up after slow 2009 start.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England); 10/7/2009; 750 words; ...funding facility for DBC Foodservice Group which included...acquisition of DBC by Woodward Foodservice and again...DBC was acquired by WPD Ltd, a company owned by...Centric Commercial Finance Ltd, the acquisition of DRV by Multimedia Group Ltd and two Bibby Financial...

Foodservice firm lands pounds 35m deal; NEW FUNDS FOR ICELAND CHIEFS' LATEST VENTURE.
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 9/16/2009; 841 words; ...than pounds 35m. DBC Foodservice has secured the three...acquired WF Group Holdings Ltd, which owns DBC, in...its failed merger with Woodward Foodservice, which saw parent company Woodward Food Group make a loss. Mr Ramsden shut several Woodward depots and sold the...

It's all cool, says McKay.(COOLEST CUSTOMER)(Brakes Ltd. to buy Woodward Foods Ltd.)(Brief article)
Grocer; 12/20/2008; 653 words; ...So at ease, in June Brakes shelled out an estimated 20m [pounds sterling] to buy loss-making wholesaler Woodward Foodservice. No-one has been immune to the credit crunch, but we have successfully combated any kind of pressure, he said...

Brakes closes two Woodward depots.(news: WHOLESALERS & INDEPENDENTS)(Brakes Group)(Woodward Foodservice, Ltd)(Brief article)
Grocer; 11/22/2008; 651 words; Two of Woodward Foodservice's eight depots have been closed and a third is under threat...acquisition by Brakes in August for 20m [pounds sterling]. Woodward Foodservice depots in Barnsley and Durham have shut and Brakes is consulting...

Brakes plays it cool over its debt levels.(news)(Brakes Ltd.)(Brief article)
Grocer; 8/16/2008; 755 words; ...warned Brakes' 20m [pounds sterling] purchase of Woodward Foodservice in June was not yet a done deal. The OFT is looking...a lot of questions and we're answering them. Woodward Foodservice lost 16m [pounds sterling] in the year to April...