Manchester City Football Club will be bought by Abu Dhabi United Group for Development & Investment in a deal worth £200m.... [more]

Change Capital Partners has sold Jil Sander, the fashion label with 61 stores accross the globe, to Onward Holdings of Japan for £135m.... [more]

Bodycote is to sell its Testing Strategic Business Unit to Clayton Dubilier & Rice for £417m. The sale is to inlude 130 laboratories in over 25 countries worldwide, in order to focus on thermal proces... [more]

Charisma Colourprint, the Sheffield-based commercial printing firm, has been bought out of administration by Progressive Print Solutions of Leeds. 34 of the 50 jobs have been secured.... [more]

Proventec has bought a 60% stake in Frank, the German manufacturer of hygienic products and high pressure washers with 25 employees.... [more]

United Business Media has purchased Pyramid Research, the telecoms market research company with 50 employees in the US, London and Hong Kong, for £4m.... [more]

Melrose has bought the Canadian and Welsh operations of Fishercast Global Corporation, the manufacturer of high-precision zinc and magnesium components, with the aim of expanding its Dynacast division... [more]

Countrywide Residential Lettings has purchased Specialist Lettings Management, the chain of nine letting agencies in Blackpool, Bolton, Brighouse, Doncaster, Hull, Lincoln, Southport, Stockton and Sun... [more]

Triton Group has bought VisualSoft, the Aberdeen-based subsea services firm with nine employees.... [more]

Les Engineering, the Grimsby-based project management and fabrication company with 700 employees, has been acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group of the US for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Kelan Circuits has bought the assets of MI Watson, the Leicestershire-based supplier of electric motor components, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Hill & Smith is going to buy Creative Pultrusions, the US manufacturer of glass-reinforced plastic products, in a deal worth £10m.... [more]

Imperial Energy, the oil exploration firm, is to be acquired by ONGC of India for £1.4bn.... [more]

Guiton Group has sold Channel Island Newsagents, the Jersey-based chain of 12 convenience stores, to Channel Island Wholesale Group for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Axon, the Surrey-based IT services firm with 2,000 employees, has agreed to be purchased by Infosys Technologies of India for £407m.... [more]

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has bought Condor Ferries, the operator of ferries from Weymouth, Poole and Portsmouth to Jersey, Guernsey and France, for £250m.... [more]

Domino Printing Sciences is going to buy Alternative Printing Services, the German manufacturer of thermal inkjet printers, for £12m.... [more]

Technetix Group is going to buy the assets of Dalvi Technology, the Bedfordshire-based developer of pay TV systems for digital networks.... [more]

Langholm Dyeing Company has been bought out of administration by FTS. Posts for 15 former staff at the Dumfriesshire-based textiles factory have been created.... [more]

Centristic, the South Devon-based engineering firm with 30 employees, has been acquired by Waldegrave of Twickenham for an undisclosed amount.... [more]