Acquisition Resources

Communisis is due to hand over its Bath-based print management operation to management, in a deal worth £13m.... [more]

RPC, Europe’s largest producer of rigid plastics packaging, is currently under a strategic review in order to explore the options for increasing shareholder value. It is understood that RPC believe it... [more]

IAWS is to merge with Hiestand of Switzerland to create a combined baked goods group called Aryzta. International sites of operation will be present in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Polan... [more]

Multi-lab has purchased the Heraeus Quartztech quartz glass factory in East Kilbride. 38 employees have been transfered.... [more]

Turner Group has bought TCL Transport Engineers, the Leeds-based manufacturer of stainless steel tankers, and its sister company QSS for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Greenergy Fuels has acquired a fuel storage facility at Breakwater Hill in Plymouth. Greenergy plans to double its capacity to allow the introduction of Tesco 99 Octane petrol across the South West.... [more]

Rochester-based Advanced Power Components has bought Contech Electronics, the Hertfordshire-based distributor of data input devices with seven staff, for £1m.... [more]

Markham Vaughan Gillingham, the retail property agency with 12 staff in London, Bristol and Manchester, has been bought by Knight Frank.... [more]

The enhanced annuities specialist, Partnership Assurance, is to be purchased by private equity firm Cinven in a deal worth £158m.... [more]

Thomas Cook has bought Jet Tours of France for £56m and TriWest Travel of Canada for £57m. The move is part of a strategy to increase its independent travel operations.... [more]

Jeyes has purchased Power & Liquid Products, the County Durham-based supplier of cleaning products, for an undisclosed amount. Annual sales for Power & Liquid are £15m.... [more]

Publishing group, United Business Media (UBM), and conference organiser and publisher, Informa, are involved in talks that may lead to the creation of a £3bn media giant.Informa is considering the pro... [more]

Minerva, one of London's largest property developers who is subject to a takeover attempt by the sovereign wealth fund, Limitless, is looking to sell off part or all of its largest development- Park P... [more]

Balfour Beatty has purchased Douglas E Barnhart, the US construction management company, with 450 staff, for £58m.... [more]

Rubis is due to buy the Channel Islands-based fuel distributor, Fuel Supplies, from Shell Distributors UK for £20m.... [more]

Siemens has sold Napier Turbochargers of Lincoln to Primary Capital for an undisclosed amount. The future of 160 jobs has been secured.... [more]

Anderson Manning has been bought by Forest Leaf Properties, a venture capital firm. The sale has cast doubt over the future of its call centres in Londonderry and Bangor.... [more]

Herron Fisher has sold APW Packaging, the Bristol-based provider of contract workers to the packaging sector, out of administration to All Packaging Work. APW Packaging has 34 employees.... [more]

Veritair Aviation, the provider of helicopter and pilot services, and Cardiff Heliport has been sold by British International to a management buy-out.... [more]

Tolwood Technologies has sold its Newton Aycliffe-based car parts manufacturing business out of administration to PC Automotive. The future of 150 jobs has been secured.... [more]