Bridport the aerospace and medical products manufacturer is to be acquired by Marmon of the US for £30m... [more]

Prudential is to acquire Hung Fu Life Insurance Company of Taiwan for £30m as part of a strategy to expand in northern Asia... [more]

Airtours is acquiring Trivselresor the Swedish holidays company for £7.5m... [more]

Densitron International has confirmed the sale of its Densitron Microwave division to MCE for up to £7.4m... [more]

GWR has bought the Plymouth Sound radio station from The Local Radio Company for £5.3m... [more]

Sports Internet has acquired Opta the supplier of football statistics to newspapers for £3.9m... [more]

Adscene the regional newspaper publisher has undergone a £75m management buy-out with the backing of 3i and Adscene's Midlands business will be sold on to Daily Mail & General Trust for £44m... [more]

NTL is acquiring the field services operations of Simoco the professional mobile communications company for £10m which will involve the transfer of about 150 engineers... [more]

Jennings Brothers is to acquire Cafe Inns the Lancashire-based operator of 73 pubs for about £15m... [more]

Nessco of Aberdeen has acquired Newood Telecom of East Kilbride for undisclosed terms in order to strengthen its position as an international telecoms solution provider... [more]

Bowthorpe is buying a Canadian telecoms testing equipment business from Consultronics for £11m... [more]

Swallow is to sell 659 tenanted pubs to Pubmaster for £127m in order to focus on hotels and managed pubs... [more]

Bullough is to sell Metallifacture the automotive products business to Dura Automotive Systems for £14m... [more]

Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired two US market research companies - Market Development and QCR Associates - for undisclosed terms... [more]

Ulster Fireclays the Northern Ireland-based producer of clay pipes for the building industry has been acquired by Schiedel of Germany... [more]

More Group is planning to acquire a 51% stake in Jolly Pubblicita the Italian outdoor advertising company in a $20m deal that includes an option to buy the remaining 49%... [more]

Invensys is to acquire Marcam the US supplier of enterprise resource planning software for £38m... [more]

Charles Taylor is planning to acquire Tindall Riley the manager of mutual insurance associations but the price has not yet been finalised... [more]

Shanks & McEwan is to acquire Caird the waste management company for £51m and hopes to achieve big cost savings as the two companies have various sites close to each other... [more]

Cannons is to acquire Pinnacle Leisure the operator of 10 fitness clubs for £63m... [more]