Lyndale Foods is acquiring Maison Blanc the patisserie company for £12m as part of a strategy to develop a national group of regional bakery chains... [more]

Harry Dalby Engineering has acquired Regent Engineers the Narborough-based pressings company for undisclosed terms... [more]

Wilmington has acquired 81% of Central Law Group the provider of publications training and conferences for £25m... [more]

TBI is acquiring Airport Group International the airports operator for £89m and the move should help TBI benefit from forthcoming airport privatisations around the world... [more]

FI is to acquire OSI Group the business consulting and management services company for £106m as part of a strategy to expand its enterprise resource planning and outsourcing operations... [more]

Schroder Ventures is acquiring the document outsourcing division of Danka Business Systems for £200m and the business will be renamed Document Services International... [more]

Therapeutic Antibodies is to merge with Proteus International to create a combined biotechnology group with a market capitalisation of about £63m... [more]

Ferguson International is to sell its US-based printing subsidiary DMI to Porter Chadburn for £8.1m... [more]

Raychem the US-based electronics manufacturing company that employs 1150 people in Swindon has been acquired by Tyco International of the US for £1.8bn... [more]

Skyepharma is acquiring Hyal Pharmaceutical Corporation of Canada for £3.8m... [more]

Bodycote has expanded its metal processing business with four acquisitions for a total £13m - Janini of France LJ Broutman of the US and Ferrodur and Fuji Metallveredelung of Austria... [more]

Bioprocessing Corporation the Durham-based supplier of chromatographic media is being acquired by Millipore of the US for £12m... [more]

Wagon has sold its Forkardt workholding operations to management for £11m in order to focus on the automotive and storage sectors... [more]

Crown Leisure the amusement machine company is to undergo a management buy-out in a £8.4m deal backed by the Bank of Scotland... [more]

Johnston Press is to acquire Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers the regional newspaper publisher for £266m having beaten off rival bids from Newsquest and News Communications & Media... [more]

Scottish Radio Holdings is acquiring Visions Posters the Birmingham-based outdoor advertising company for £15m... [more]

United News & Media is acquiring Strategic Marketing Corporation the US market research company for £11m... [more]

JP Corry of Belfast has acquired RK Timber the timber distributor from Raab Karcher Shareholdings of Germany for undisclosed terms... [more]

Taylor & Francis is acquiring Europa Publications the publisher of reference works from MPG for £12m... [more]

Senior Engineering has sold its precision tube division to Tyco of the US for £31m and the proceeds will be invested in its Flexonics business... [more]