Nord Anglia Education, the training company, is to be bought by Baring Private Equity Asia for £190m.... [more]

TDG, the logistics group with 7,000 staff and 133 sites across Europe, is to be bought by Laxey Partners of the Isle of Man for £203m.... [more]

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the British pay-TV group, is considering making a bid of €2.5bn for Spanish pay-TV platform, Digital Plus.It is expected that Grupo Prisa, Spain's largest media firm,... [more]

Harry Irving & Co, the Bootle-based pet products supplier, has been bought out of administration by Petlife Ventures.... [more]

MarineTrack, the West Sussex-based telematics firm with 12 staff, is to be purchased by XSN in a £1.5m reverse takeover.... [more]

Ten Alps has bought Twenty First Century Media, the Tyneside-based video production company with operations in Glasgow, Leeds and London, for £800k.... [more]

Arriva has purchased Empresa de Blas y Cia, the Spanish bus operator with 679 staff, for £79m.... [more]

Gardner Energy Management, the Bristol-based steam traps manufacturer, has been bought by Thermal Energy International of Canada for £2.7m.... [more]

British Airways is to buy L'Avion, the French business-class airline, for £54m. The intention is to expand its OpenSkies subsidiary.... [more]

Vitacress Salads, the Andover-based salad grower and distributor with about 1,000 employees, has been bought by RAR of Portugal for £50m.... [more]

Carco Group has bought Bryan Brothers, the Bristol-based Citroen car dealership with 82 staff, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Wavin has purchased Warmafloor, the Fareham-based supplier of under-floor heating systems with 56 staff, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Domino Printing Sciences is going to buy Photon Energy, the German manufacturer of solid state laser sources, in a deal worth £3.2m.... [more]

Happit, the Dunfermline-based discount clothing retailer, has been bought out of administration by 2nd Thoughts. The future of 233 jobs at 32 stores have been restored.... [more]

Cosalt has bought Myhre-Maritime, the Norwegian marine equipment supplier, for £12m.... [more]

Renold is to buy a 75% stake in LG Balakrishnan, the Indian chain manufacturer, for £5m.... [more]

Apollo Sheeters, the Bedford-based supplier of sheeting equipment for paper and board, is to be purchased by MarquipWardUnited of the US for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Greenstar UK has acquired Leicester Paper Processors, the Coalville-based recycling firm. Greenstar is planning more acquisitions and developments.... [more]

Chemring has bought Martin Electronics, the US manufacturer of pyrotechnically-activated devices, in a deal worth £35m.... [more]

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