Moving back to Sage

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HI

We've been on Sage since it was a dos program years ago.  Became part of a group who then ran our accounts for 6 months on their in-house system.  Now there's a management buyout and we want to return to Sage for the 2 companies that have been bought out (ours and another one which was also on Sage previously!).  As the 2 companies are now part of the same group, would it be best to run them on one multi-company licence or keep them on their separate licences?  Any particular choice that would be most beneficial?  Also, when we add the new opening balances, there will be slight changes in customers and stock BOM's from the past 6 months, so is there a way of adding the new info without overwriting the original data?  Is it just a case of importing all the new info on a spreadsheet using the import function?  I thought I was pretty knowledgeable on Sage but this is a new one on me!  Thanks in advance for any advice. SueB