Acquisition Resources

Holidaybreak has recently bought Hertford Travel Group, the holding company for educational tour operator European Study Tours, in a deal worth £4m.... [more]

Ashtead has sold Ashtead Technology Rentals, the supplier of subsea equipment with 14 sites in the UK, North America and Singapore, to a management buy-out supported by Phoenix Equity Partners in a de... [more]

WM Lawrence & Sons, the Chorley-based textiles manufacturer, has been bought by Apex Textiles of Haslingden.... [more]

ACM Shipping Group is to buy the shipbroking business of Harris & Dixon Shipbrokers of London in a deal worth £2.5m.... [more]

Grant Thornton has sold 32 Ferrari's bakery outlets in Wales out of administration to ICD Wales. The future of 200 jobs has been saved, as well as a further 40 jobs will be saved through a management... [more]

Grahame Stowe Bateson has bought Robert Moore Culleton, the Leeds-based law firm with six employees.... [more]

Southern & Redfern of Bradford has merged with Watsons Building Services of Keighley, a combined building services group called Novitas has been created with more than 200 employees.... [more]

Plumbstop has purchased Mannington Supplies, the supplier of plumbing products with branches in Swindon and Weston-super-Mare. Plumbstop now has nine sites.... [more]

Moy Park, the poultry processing group with operations in Northern Ireland, East Anglia and Lincolnshire, will soon be sold by OSI Group to Marfrig of Brazil.... [more]

Resource Team, the Manchester-based online customer review firm, has undergone a management buy-in supported by Ingenious Media Active Capital.... [more]

VT Group has purchased Estech Europe, the West Midlands-based waste management firm with projects in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Wakefield, in a deal worth £1.6m.... [more]

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Active has put in a bid to purchase parts of Esporta health club, the chain which is up for sale.Virgin Active, which recently appointed former Alliance Boots boss, Richar... [more]

Unilever, the consumer goods group, is to sell its palm oil plantations based on the Ivory Coast. The group's edible oil business has a yearly turnover of £67 million. Last year, Unilever began its st... [more]

Tomkins has sold Stant Corporation, its US-based fuel systems manufacturing business with annual sales of £90m, to private equity firm HIG Capital.... [more]

Lakeland Timber Framed Homes is to sell its assets to Northumberland-based Zero Carbon Group, with the re-employment of most of the 15 staff at its housing components factory.... [more]

Ultralase has bought the Cambridge Eye Laser Clinic, and plans to open a further three consulting rooms this year.... [more]

Euromec, the Market Harborough-based suppler of cleaning machines, has been bought out of administration by one of its directors, securing 19 of the 23 jobs.... [more]

Arran Brewery has been bought out of administration by Marketing Management Services International for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Andrew Neil, former Editor of The Sunday Times and chief executive of the Spectator group, has agreed to pay £4 million for the struggling literary and talent agency, Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD).Mr N... [more]

STM Group is to acquire St George Financial Services, the Jersey-based corporate and trustee service provider, for up to £0.6m.... [more]