Cuttle McLeod Construction has been acquired by Broadwell Holdings of the West Midlands for £5.5m... [more]

Vosper Thornycroft is to acquire Merlin Communications, the communications facilities management company, for £95m... [more]

Alito Colour Group has bought Keldia, the Walthamstow-based printing company, out of administration and is planning to move to larger London premises early next year... [more]

United Packaging, the Cleckheaton-based manufacturer of stretch wrapping machines, has been acquired by MJ Maillis of Greece... [more]

Obvious Solutions has acquired Icarus, the Manchester-based recruitment consultancy, for £0.5m, and is now looking to expand into London and the US... [more]

Latchways is to acquire HCL Group for £2.4m, in order to expand its safety systems installation business... [more]

Reemstma, the world's fourth largest cigarette company, is being auctioned by Merrill Lynch for up to £3.7bn. Potential bidders include Imperial Tobacco of Britain, as well as Altadis and Japan Tobacc... [more]

Brewin Dolphin, the stockbroker, has acquired Russell Newth for an initial £0.9m... [more]

Creston has acquired Real Adventure Marketing Communications, the Bath-based marketing services company, for £7.2m... [more]

QSP's intellectual property assets have been bought out of receivership by Walker Interactive Systems of the US, saving about 100 Tyneside jobs... [more]

Atlantic Telecom's UK business is poised to be broken up after talks over the sale of the operation collapsed. PwC, the receivers, have said that of the assets, Fixed wireless operation, a cable busi... [more]

Lazards may sell itself to a rival in a move that would signal the end of the banks 150 year independence. Sources within the company say that a sale "is an option". There has been a sharp downturn ... [more]

Schroder Ventures, the private equity firm, has put Sirona, a former division of the Siemens Group, up for sale in a move that some have interpreted as a move out of the German Market. The firm is sa... [more]

Laird has acquired R&F Products, the US supplier of electromagnetic interference absorber products, for an initial £3m... [more]

Tribal Group has acquired Cambridge Training & Development, the e-learning consultancy, for £4.2m... [more]

Ennstone has acquired Tarmac Northern's West Coast quarrying and asphalt operations at Furness, Fort William, Aviemore and Elgin for £2.8m. ... [more]

Sportal, the sports internet company, has been acquired by UKbetting for £0.2m, and the remaining 60 UK-based staff will be made redundant. ... [more]

Axon, the IT services company, is to acquire the Bywater business transformation consultancy for £7m... [more]

Sabena, the troubled Belgian airline, is thought to be about to file for bankruptcy as it has not yet found investors. The airline has only twice recorded a profit since its establishment in 1923.... [more]

Brake Bros has acquired VDL, the French regional food wholesaler, for £3m... [more]