Brake Brothers, a United Kingdom-based food supplier, is negotiating to acquire the chilled food distribution business of Caerphilly, Wales-based Peter’s Food Service. Brake Brothers, a United Kingdom ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Sysco Corp. is trying to buy Brake Bros, the European food service company put up for sale by Clayton Dubilier & Rice with a 1.2 billion pound ($2.4 billion) price tag, The ...

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 ...

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 ...

As predicted, profits before tax, goodwill and exceptionals came in around 20 per cent below last year's figure of GBP18.1m - as forecast in a profit warning in July. Foot-and-mouth hit the tourist ...

Sysco Corp SYY, the $20 billion U.S. food service giant, is to go head to head with Archie Norman and Blackstone in the bid battle for Brake Brothers, The Times in London reported on Friday. It is ...