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]

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]

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]

Wigan-based sheet metal manufacturer, Indmar, has been bought out of administration by Kanban Group of Lancaster for £0.25m. Indmar has 70 employees.... [more]

Direct Group has purchased Millennium Insurance, the Midlands-based provider of insurance services to the mortgage market, for an undisclosed sum.... [more]

Intermet Refractory Products, the South Yorkshire-based metal castings supplier with 50 employees, has been bought by the owner of Sheffield Refractories for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Alphasteel, the Newport-based steel plant, is to be bought out of administration by Libala of Russia for a sum close to £50m.... [more]

Cyberview Technology, the manufacturer of gambling machines, is to be bought by US-based Game Technology for £39m.... [more]

Amec is to purchase the US environmental consultancy, Geomatrix Consultants, for £43m. Geomatrix Consultants has 500 staff.... [more]

G4S has purchased Touchcom, the US supplier of electronic security systems, for an amount close to £29m.... [more]

Brightside is to buy Aust Holdings, Group Direct and Injury QED. Brightside intends to expand its insurance broking and financial services business.... [more]

Office2office has acquired Accord Office Supplies, the Swindon-based office products supplier, in a deal worth £6m.... [more]

ECT Recycling, the waste collection business with contracts in London, Somerset and the West Midlands, has been acquired by May Gurney, for £9.8m. ... [more]