"Figure 7: Area Analysis of acquisitions abroad by UK companies, 2005 to 2016","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. .. denotes disclosive data " "Unit","Number" "","" "","Europe","Americas","Asia" "2005","175","140","26" "2006","170","163","37" "2007","199","153","35" "2008","131","105","29" "2009","44","41","14" "2010","84","73","16" "2011","104","113","33" "2012","46","59","7" "2013","23","21",".." "2014","48","44","12" "2015","71","79",".." "2016","61","49",".."