Telent, the telecom support services company with 2,000 staff at sites in Coventry, Chorley and Basildon, has accepted a £346m takeover offer from Fortress Investment Group of the US. Telent, which is... [more]

Mayborn, the supplier of baby products, is to be acquired by Jake Acquisitions, a 3i subsidiary, for £116m. Mayborn, whose brands include Tommee Tippee, is to pay 500p a share in cash. Shares in Maybo... [more]

Tristel is to acquire Vernagene, the Bolton-based supplier of water treatment and hygiene control products, for £1m. Vernagene, which is based in Bolton, focuses on water treatment and purification an... [more]

Robinson has acquired VR Plastics, the Nottinghamshire-based plastic injection moulding company with 85 staff, for £2.8m. The acquisition will be financed by bank debt. Robinson, which is listed on th... [more]

Cosalt, the UK-listed consumer products manufacturer, may entertain offers for some of their non core peripheral businesses, including the Ballyclear childrenswear division. Cosalt's main areas of bus... [more]

The Hunter Rubber Company, the Scottish wellington boot manufacturers, has entered administration. According to KPMG, the administrator, Hunter has already received as many as four approaches from pot... [more]

Polaron has sold Oxford Nanoscience to Imago Scientific Instruments of the US for £2.5m. With the acquisition, Imago now holds almost all of the worldwide patents for such instruments, said Imago pres... [more]

Bekaert of Belgium has acquired Cold Drawn Products, the West Yorkshire-based wire manufacturer with 170 staff, for £12m. Cold Drawn Products (CDP) supplies its high carbon steel shaped wire product t... [more]