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426:, and the new parent company Dee Valley Group was established to act as a holding company to the new company. In 1997, the group purchased Chester Waterworks, and over the next year, combined operations from both entities into Dee Valley Water. In 2002, Dee Valley Group was listed on the London Stock Exchange with the ticker code DVW.
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October 2016 the board of Dee Valley Water announced that they had agreed a takeover of the company by Ancala Fornia Limited. This offer would have allowed the company to remain as an independent water company. Three weeks later the board announced that they were now recommending a 10% higher
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was first established with the aim of pumping water from nearby
Pentrebychan, west enough of the town to not be influenced by pollution. The first works, opened in the same year, were primitive, with only a reservoir and slow sand filter for water treatment, these were made obsolete by the
551:"Proposal by the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) to vary the appointments of Severn Trent Water Limited ("Severn Trent Water") and Dee Valley Water Limited ("Dee Valley Water") as a water and wastewater services company and water only company respectively"
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during World War II. In 1983, the expansion of the company dictated that larger offices were required. The headquarters at
Egerton Street were sold and the company moved to new, purpose built offices at Packsaddle,
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On 1 July 2018, all of the water service area of Dee Valley Water and Severn Trent lying in Wales became part of the Dee Valley Water company, which was granted a new wastewater appointment and renamed as
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