Tomkins has acquired Milcor, the US-based air systems company with 350 staff, from Gibraltar Industries for undisclosed terms.... [more]

United Polymers, the manufacturer of rubber and plastic products with 140 staff, has been bought out of administration by Aberdare-based UK-Euro Group and has been renamed Crosslink.... [more]

BAe Systems has reached agreement on a £648m deal to sell most of its avionics business to Finmeccanica of Italy.... [more]

CBRE is to acquire Nelson Bakewell, the 330-strong chain of property agents, for about £22m.... [more]

XKO, the listed UK software solutions company, would consider selling at the right price, finance director William Good said in a telephone interview. 'If someone wants to buy us, [and offers] the rig... [more]

Thames Water, the UK-based utility, will probably be broken up and sold for £1bn, according to a reports. RWE, the listed German utility which owns Thames, has restarted the sales process, with Goldma... [more]

Jones the Bootmaker, the UK-based retail footwear group, has been put up for sale, according to chief executive ken Bartle, Bartle said he had not set a price for the chain, which comprises 75 stores.... [more]

Interregnum has acquired Audio Visual Machines, the audio visual solutions provider, for £0.5m.... [more]

GRP Laminates, the Cowes-based boatbuilder with about 30 staff, has been bought out of administration by Oxford-based Seighford Investments.... [more]

Inter Link Foods has acquired Yorkshire Cottage Bakeries, the cake manufacturer with 290 staff in Bradford and Manchester, for £12m.... [more]

International Greetings is to acquire Napier Industries, the supplier of own-label gift products, for £4.8m.... [more]

The Competition Commission has formally concluded that the acquisition by Emap, the UK media group, of ABI Building Data Limited, completed last year, can be expected to result in a substantial lessen... [more]

Aegis Group has acquired De-construct, the London-based digital creative agency, for an initial £1.2m.... [more]

Dinkie Heel has acquired Friedman's, the Manchester-based distributor of lycra-based materials with annual turnover of £2.6m.... [more]

Future Network has acquired A&S Publishing, the motoring magazines and events company, for £6m.... [more]

Jordan Grand Prix, the Formula One motor racing team, is to be acquired by Midland Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Ashworth's Foods, the Preston-based pie manufacturer with 75 staff, has been bought out of administration by a local consortium called Unipex.... [more]

Amec is to acquire Paragon Engineering Services, the US-based oil and gas engineering services company, with the £20m purchase price coming from a £90m share placing.... [more]

Past Times, the UK retail group, has taken on Argyll Partners to conduct a strategic review after an offer for the group came in. The owner Retail Variations does not single out units within the grou... [more]

Harvey Lipsith, the former chief executive of Allders, has launched a last-ditch attempt to rescue the troubled department-store group from administration. Lipsith is working on a bid that could table... [more]