Aggregate Industries has acquired the aggregate and trucking operations of Hammer Group of the US for £11m... [more]

Storyboards Harpers the supplier of presentation services to the advertising industry has undergone a £5m management buyout... [more]

Hillsdown is selling its Continental Bakeries biscuit manufacturing business to a new company created by the venture capitalist IndustriKapital for £42m... [more]

acquired by Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic Partners of the US for £172m... [more]

Tomkins has acquired Aquatic Industries the US supplier of whirlpools for £7.8m... [more]

Umeco is acquiring Aerovac Systems the supplier of vacuum bagging products to the aerospace sector for £12m... [more]

Ladbroke is set to acquire Stakis for about £1.16bn which will give it an extra 54 hotels 22 casinos and 67 health clubs and the Stakis head office in Glasgow is likely to close... [more]

Inchcape has sold its shipping services division to Electra Fleming for £47m and is now seeking to sell its marketing services business in the Middle East and an office automation business in Japan... [more]

Brands Hatch Leisure is to acquire Rebel Group the operator of two karting circuits for up to £5.5m... [more]

Burmah Castrol has acquired two US lubricant businesses for £15m -Lubecon Systems of Michegan and Applied Chemicals International's performance lubricants operation... [more]

Watts Blake Bearne the producer of ball clay for the ceramics industry has agreed a £105m takeover by its largest shareholder SCR Sibelco... [more]

Close Brothers is acquiring the continental European operations of the US securities house Hambrecht & Quist as H&Q has decided to concentrate its European business in London... [more]

Coca-Cola Beverages is acquiring Ozgorkey Coca-Cola the third largest bottling franchise in Romania for £15m... [more]

Delphi the IT recruitment agency has been acquired by Adecco of Switzerland for £167m... [more]

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries is set to win its battle to acquire Marston Thompson & Evershed for £285m having won 73% of shareholder support... [more]

Photobition the media services company has abandoned its £80m takeover bid for Wace but has announced the acquisition of Service Visual Communications for £11m... [more]

British Telecom has acquired Arrakis the Spanish internet service provider for £9.5m... [more]

Shepherd Consulting is acquiring GRC Consultants the Hampshire-based process engineering company for undisclosed terms... [more]

Bethell Group has acquired Electricity Distribution Services the heavy-duty cabling company for undisclosed terms... [more]

Sage is to acquire Peachtree the US software company for £88m in order to double its customer base to about 2m... [more]