Quadsect, the London-based printer, has gone into administration through Begbies Traynor with the loss of about 30 jobs... [more]

Warner Chilcott, the Craigavon-based pharmaceuticals company, has accepted a £1.6bn takeover offer from a private equity consortium of DLJ Merchant Banking and JP Morgan... [more]

South Staffordshire, the West Midlands water company, is to be acquired by First Islamic Investment Bank for £143m... [more]

Frank Galliers, the Shropshire-based contractor with 100 staff, has been acquired by Pan Atlanta Developments for undisclosed terms... [more]

Friends Provident is to acquire Lombard International, the Luxembourg-based life assurance company, for up to £414m... [more]

Kleeneze has acquired I Want One of Those, the online retailer of gifts and lifestyle accessories, for £6m... [more]

One Way Circuits has acquired Circast Electronics, the Warwickshire-based electronics manufacturer with 100 staff... [more]

Hampson Industries has acquired Texstars, the US manufacturer of aircraft parts with 250 staff, for £22m... [more]

Meggitt has acquired Schreiner, the Canadian manufacturer of military vehicles, for £2.9m... [more]

VT Group has acquired The Guidance Enterprises Group, the Yorkshire-based careers advisory company, for £2.5m... [more]

Dicom has acquired Neurascript, the Cambridge-based supplier of information sorting software, for up to £8.3m... [more]

The European Commission has raised concerns that government plans to sell off the Tote, the state owned pooled betting service, may be uncompetitive. Under the Government's plan, the tote will be sold... [more]

Shareholders in Kidde, the fire protection group, have indicated they would be prepared to sell out if United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the US industrial conglomerate, increase its takeover offe... [more]

One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put on the market. The London-based company who produce the Harry Potter games has sacked about 100 employees due to a severe... [more]

CES UK has acquired Liverpool Exhaust Supplies and Fairfield Motor Services for undisclosed terms... [more]

East Anglian Pharmaceuticals, the Norwich-based drugs wholesaler with 130 staff, is to be acquired by Phoenix Healthcare Distribution for undisclosed terms... [more]

Vinci Energies has bought Ford Communications and Arthur Ford out of administration for undisclosed terms, securing 70 jobs at an engineering site in Nottingham... [more]

European Supplies, the supplier of British foods to Spanish retailers, is being acquired by Lennox Holdings, and £4m will be raised in a flotation on Aim... [more]

Rumours are circulating that London's most expensive restaurant, Sketch, could be put on the market. Since opening £5m over budget 20 months ago, the Mayfair complex which houses a restaurant, two bar... [more]

Perkins Foods, a supplier to Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s, has put its UK chilled food division on sale for more than £60m. ABN Amro Capital, Perkins’s private equity owner, has appointed Stamford Part... [more]