Tata buys British Salt

Posted on 21 Dec 2010 by The Manufacturer

Cheshire based British Salt – responsible for around half of all pure salt produced in Britain – has been sold to Indian engineering conglomerate Tata for £93m.

British Salt – supplier to food manufacturers and farms as well as for road gritting and water softening applications – was bought out from its US owners by a mixture of management buyout and private equity in 2007. It has a turnover of £35m. Now, it will become part of Tata Chemicals’ Brunner Mond business,…

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