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• Firms primed for buying spree.

  - 2005-10-18

  Byline: Trevor Hoey Oct 18, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian shares are expected to deliver returns of 11 during the year to October 2006....

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• Thiess bid runs inside track.

  - 2005-09-22

  Byline: James Hall Sep 22, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Thiess group in Australia has linked up with United Group's Alstom engineering business. ...

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• French firm to offload boiler division.

  - 2005-08-15

  Byline: James Hall Aug 15, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The diversified infrastructure conglomerate, Alstom Australia, has a French parent company. In Australasia it has...

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• Fast, careful growth.

  - 2005-06-29

  Jun 28, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) Richard Leupen is the CEO of Australian rail and infrastructure services company, United Group. It recently bought Singapore property services specialist, Premas, and the Australian transport arm of France's Alstom. He does not believe that the...

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• Downer keeping eyes on bigger prize.

  - 2005-06-19

  Jun 19, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Downer EDI MD Stephen Gillies believes the group can still secure two suburban rail contracts with New South Wales' RailCorp. The Australian engineering and rail services group recently lost its bid for Alstom...

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• Big deals and government spending boost United.

  - 2005-06-07

  Jun 07, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The share price of Australia's United Group has increased by 79 per cent in fiscal 2005. The engineering firm is now trading at about $A9.15, however analysts are divided over whether the share price...

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• United's flying after changing direction.

  - 2005-06-05

  Jun 05, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Richard Leupen has been very busy in the 4.5 years he has headed Australian contractor, the United Group. He has relocated the company's headquarters from Perth to Sydney and overseen five major acquisitions,...

  Tags: Alstom, United Group Ltd., Wesfarmers Ltd.

• United gets numbers right on Alstom.

  - 2005-06-02

  Jun 02, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Engineering firm United Group has paid $A267.5m for the Australian transport arm of French group Alstom. The acquisition was expected to cost United between $A350m and $A400m. The purchase has given United Group...

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