Nicholl Food Packaging has acquired Bachmann Aluminium, the German packaging supplier with 43 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Hyder Consulting is to acquire Voigt Ingenieure, the German water, waste and transportation business with 75 staff, for £5.6m.... [more]

Towergate is to acquire Broker Network, the Harrogate-based insurance broker with 450 staff at 25 offices, for £95m.... [more]

Vyke Communications is planning to acquire The Target, the retail Voice over Internet Protocol service provider, for £3.5m.... [more]

Zamano is to acquire Red Circle Technologies, the Irish supplier of digital entertainment services for mobile devices, for up to £17m.... [more]

Kemshell Design & Print of Wakefield has been acquired by Lick of Huddersfield, and the business will be consolidated into Lick's site next March.... [more]

Croudace is the latest builder to put up for sale and is thought to be worth about £130m. Croudace is majority owned by Anthony Brotherton Ratcliffe and family. Commentators, watching the industry, b... [more]

Luke Johnson has recieved a number of approaches for his dog track business. King Sturge have been appointed to sound out sensible offers. GRA, the Greyhound Racing Association owns six venues inclu... [more]

Waterlogic International has hired Price Waterhouse Coopers to find an outside investor fo the business that could value it at £80m. The business makes watercoolers that are distributed in 40 countri... [more]

Buy-to-let lender Paragon has denied that it is up for sale after it was forced to announce a plan to refinance its loans and warned that it was to stop lending to new borrowers... [more]

Readymix has acquired Denis Tarrant & Sons, the Irish aggregate and ready-mixed concrete firm, for about £8m.... [more]

Northern Foods has acquired Ethnic Cuisine, the Swansea-based ready meals manufacturer with 350 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Umeco has acquired George Cole Technologies, the Manchester-based composite materials manufacturer trading as Primco, for £3m.... [more]

Macildowie Associates, the finance and HR recruitment firm with offices in Nottingham and Leicester, has been acquired by Synetecs Group of Belfast.... [more]

Aberdeen-based FirstGroup PLC has announced that it has acquired Laidlaw International Inc., the leading operator of school and inter-city bus transportation and a supplier of public transit services ... [more]

Cobham is to acquire S-TEC Corporation, the US manufacturer of aircraft autopilots with 180 staff, from Meggitt for £19m.... [more]

Mobile Doctors Group is to acquire Medi-fiche, the Chichester-based supplier of medico-legal reports for personal injury claims with 20 staff, for £1.2m.... [more]

Excelsior Technologies has acquired Omni Flexibles, the Salford-based flexible packaging manufacturer, for undisclosed terms, creating a combined group with annual revenue of £40m.... [more]

Sutton Kersh has acquired Thomson & Moulton, the Liverpool-based property agency, creating a combined network of nine branches across the city.... [more]

Barony Universal, the Ayrshire-based aerosol manufacturer with 100 staff, has been acquired by Arnest of Russia.... [more]