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]

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

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]

James Walker Group has purchased a 59% stake in Devol Engineering, the plastics moulding firm. Devol has sites in Greenock and Edinburgh.... [more]

Miller Graphics has bought Corniche Fine Arts, the Yorkshire-based printing firm, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Vantis has sold SP Packaging & Plastics of Basildon out of administration to Shalam of Israel. The future of 30 jobs has been secured.... [more]

Inisoft, the Glasgow-based software company with 20 staff, has been purchased by the Response call centre division of Murray International for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

The Manchester-based online gaming company with 20 staff, Million-2-1, has been bought by American company International Game Technology in a multi-million pound deal.... [more]

Faber Maunsell has bought Hamilton & McGregor, the Scottish environmental and building acoustics business.... [more]

Co-operative Travel Management has purchased Parador Travel Management, the London-based travel services firm. A nationwide network of 16 offices has been created out of the move.... [more]

AssetHouse Technologies, the Guildford-based software developer has been bought by Amino Technologies for £1.4m.... [more]

Adventis Group has purchased Second2, the Thames-based technology marketing agency, for up to £10m. The 38 employees are to relocate to the Adventis office in Beaconsfield.... [more]

Humberts has handed over Blenheim Bishop Estate Agents of London back to its original owner for £1m. BTFL, the Kent-based rural and commercial estate agency, has been sold for a nominal sum.... [more]

Tullow Oil has sold a 52% stake in the Hewett Unit gas fields in the North Sea to Eni of Italy in a deal worth £210m. The sale includes the onshore Bacton terminal.... [more]

The Luton-based business-class airline, Silverjet, is expected to be bought out of administration by Kingplace of Switzerland.... [more]

It is understood that LK Bennett, the chain of about 70 fashion stores, is to be bought by Phoenix Equity Partners for an amount up to £100m.... [more]

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