Scottish Media Group has reportedly restarted talks about thesale of the Herald group of newspapers, after US firm Gannett felt it was paying too much and attempted to renegotiate its £215m deal.... [more]

Warthog has acquired Zed Two, the Manchester-based computer games developer with 21 staff, for up to £1.5m.... [more]

Christie Group has acquired Orridge, the retail stocktaking company, for £0.6m.... [more]

The Department of Health is to acquire Life Resources, the US-owned group of 24 blood donor centres, for up to £70m, in order to ensure future supplies of blood plasma.... [more]

Keller has acquired McKinney Drilling, the US-based foundation drilling company, for up to £32m.... [more]

Penta Capital is supporting a management buy-in at Out of Town Restaurants, the operator of shopping centre food courts with 1,500 staff.... [more]

James Fisher is to acquire Scan Tech, the Norwegian marine services company, for £8.8m, in order to expand its Underwater Engineering Services business in Aberdeen.... [more]

Berkeley Berry Birch has acquired Weston Financial Group, the independent financial adviser with 63 consultants and eight branches, for an initial £1.9m.... [more]

Dutton Forshaw Group, the operator of 38 car dealerships, has been acquired by Lloyds TSB Asset Finance Division for £49m.... [more]

Arlington Group has acquired Sentinel Business Services Group, the London-based data storage services company operating from a 110,000 sq ft facility in Greenwich.... [more]

Burn Stewart Distillers is to be acquired by CL Financial of Trinidad for £49m, and the new group plans to create a global drinks brand from a Scottish headquarters.... [more]

Fiat may be forced to sell its insurance and aeronautical divisions by its creditor banks. Toro is valued at around 2.5bn Euros and Fiat Avvio is estmated to be worth 1.5bn Euros.... [more]

Highway Insurance, the motor insurer, is thought to be a potential takeover target. One of its shareholders wishes to sell the whole company to realise its investment. The business is valued at £87 mi... [more]

Abbey National has put the sale of First National, its £800m consumer finance division, on hold. It is thought that it may fetch more if sold with other Abbey assets. One business that could be consid... [more]

Pvaxx, the Wiltshire-based developer of a new process to convert waste products into pellets for manufacturing, is to announce a £170m reverse takeover of shell company Worldsec.... [more]

Cybit Holdings has acquired Drive-IT Systems, the Swedish vehicle management and car-sharing solutions company.... [more]

Frederick Pollard has acquired the UK machine tool assets of Hitachi Seiki of Japan, in a £2.8m rescue deal that saves more than 30 jobs in Surrey.... [more]

Diageo is planning to sell its Burger King fast food business to a US private equity consortium headed by Texas Pacific Group for £950m.... [more]

Paladin Resources is to acquire a package of North Sea oil and gas assets from BP and Amerada Hess for £97m, partly funded by a £42m share placing, in order to increase production by up to 40%.... [more]

Mears Group is to acquire M&T Group, the Southampton-based building maintenance company trading as FWA Southern, for up to £3.5m.... [more]