Smith Cooper has bought Andersons KBS, the Birmingham-based accountancy firm with 12 employees.... [more]

TV production company, Carnival Film & Television, has been bought by NBC Universal for £22m.... [more]

Cobham is going to buy GMS, the US supplier of surveillance equipment with 50 employees, for £14m.... [more]

BAA's ownership of the main three airports in South East England, and the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports in Scotland, is being questioned after the Competition Commission reportedly decided ... [more]

Wyatt Group has acquired TEBC, the employee benefits consultancy, for an initial £0.15m.... [more]

Filtronic is to sell its Defence Electronics business to Teledyne for £13m.... [more]

Anite is to sell its Anite Public Sector Holdings software division to Northgate Information Solutions UK for £54m.... [more]

Ten Alps has acquired Films of Record, the TV production company, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

BAe Systems is to acquire Detica Group, the provider of information management systems to the national security sector with 1,500 staff, for £538m.... [more]

Whitbread is to acquire 21 Express by Holiday Inn hotels from Mitchells & Butlers, in exchange for 44 pub restaurants.... [more]

Tesco is to take full control of Tesco Personal Finance with the £950m acquisition of a 50% stake from Royal Bank of Scotland.... [more]

Essay Print, the Leeds-based printing firm with 20 staff, has been bought out of administration by Collective UK.... [more]

RM has acquired Orchard Partners, the supplier of education software that trades as EasyTrace, for up to £2.8m.... [more]

BT has acquired Ribbit Corporation, the US telecoms and internet services firm, for about £50m.... [more]

Ridge has acquired Walfords, the quantity surveyor with 30 staff in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Milton Keynes, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Super Aguri, the Oxfordshire-based motor racing team, has had its assets bought out of administration by Formtech of Germany.... [more]

Hill Hire, owned by the investment division of HBOS, is on the market. HBOS aims to raise £300m from the sale of Hill Hire which is one of Britain's biggest truck and trailer rental companies.The sale... [more]

ProCook, the Cheltenham-based kitchenware retailer, has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing the future of 260 jobs at 39 stores.... [more]

Biocompatibles has acquired the business and net assets of BrachySciences, the US supplier of medical devices, for £11m.... [more]

Petrofac has acquired Eclipse Petroleum Technology, the petroleum engineering firm with 50 staff in Aberdeen, London, Norway, Dubai and the US, for an initial £7m.... [more]