Takeover
By the beginning of 2010, the company was listed on the FTSE 250, and had a commercial presence in over thirty countries, and manufacturing plants in the United Kingdom, Spain, China, India, Thailand and CIS.
In July 2010, SSL agreed to be bought by household products company Reckitt Benckiser in a £2.5Bn deal. The takeover was completed in November 2010.
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“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
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