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BM Group cuts gearing with US sale

BM GROUP, the engineering concern, has sold Mitchell, its US distribution business, for $22m ( pounds 14m) and reduced gearing below the 100 per cent level, writes Robert Cole.

As a result, BM's group debt fell from pounds 66m to pounds 52m as of 30 June 1994, the end of the company's financial year.

Mitchell specialises in the sales and servicing of construction and mining equipment. It supplies excavators, cranes and compacting equipment for manufacturers such as Komatsu Dresser and Ingersoll Rand.

Mitchell, which is based in Charlotte, North ...

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