Venteco has acquired SIK Valiguard, the Swedish specialist in food industry hygiene and safety certification, from the Swedish Institute of Food & Biotechnology.... [more]

Group 4 Securicor is to acquire Direct Handling, the Isle of Man-based parcel and document service company, for £0.9m.... [more]

Detica Group is to acquire DFI International, the US provider of services to the security community with 208 staff, for £20m.... [more]

Hasgrove has acquired Cabinet Stewart, the Belgian public affairs consultancy, for up to £1.6m.... [more]

Arriva has acquired Bosak Bus, the Czech bus operator with 50 vehicles and 64 staff, for £1.1m.... [more]

FE Burman of South London has acquired Trigon Mailing Services, in order to diversify its printing business into mailing.... [more]

Volante Transportation Systems of County Durham has been bought out of administration by Gloucestershire-based Invertec for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 30 jobs.... [more]

DeepStore has acquired Interactive Records Management, the document retrieval service with 22 staff at two sites in London, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

TRM Corporation, the NASDAQ-listed provider of ATM machines and photocopiers, has sold its UK-based subsidiary, TRM Limited, to NoteMachine.... [more]

Storage entrepreneur Alister Jack has sold his Armadillo self-storage business to the property and infrastructure arm of HSBC for £40m.... [more]

UK-based ship management company V Ships has confirmed that it is up for sale following rumours over the company's future. It has retained N M Rothschild to handle the sale of the business, after firs... [more]

Arriva is to acquire an 85% stake in Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen, the German bus and rail company, for £20m.... [more]

Scapa is to sell its sealants business, which is based in Hampshire and employs 71 staff, to Hodgson Sealants for around £4.9m.... [more]

United Utilities is to sell its Vertex Data Science business outsourcing division to a private equity consortium led by Oak Hill Capital Partners for £217m.... [more]

Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Research Surveys, the South African custom research company with annual turnover of £7.4m.... [more]

Shepherd Group is planning to sell its York-based Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems Division to a management buy-in, with the transfer of about 130 staff.... [more]

CEPS is to acquire Sunline Direct Mail for an initial £3.8m, including packing and mailing operations in Loughborough and Redditch.... [more]

ArmorGroup has acquired Neil Young Associates, the global security consultancy, for up to £1m.... [more]

WS Atkins has acquired Boreas Consultants, the Aberdeen-based oil and gas services consultancy with 35 staff, for £3.8m.... [more]

Arriva is to acquire Esfera, the Spanish bus operator with 34 staff, for an initial £2.6m.... [more]