Blagden has sold its Blagden Chemicals formaldehyde and resin business to Borden Chemical of the US for £45m and is now looking to sell its three remaining businesses in order to break-up the group... [more]

NTL is to acquire Cablelink the Irish cable TV provider for £438m... [more]

Kartupelis Associates and The Focus Group have merged to create one of the largest PR firms in the Mid-Anglia region... [more]

Senior Engineering is selling its heat-treatment operations to Aalberts Industries of the Netherlands for £25m... [more]

Nycomed Amersham is selling a 70% stake in its Norwegian-based pharmaceutical business to Nordic Capital in a deal that values the operation at £340m in order to focus on imaging and biotech supply. ... [more]

Albright & Wilson the chemicals company has agreed to a £526m takeover from Rhodia of France... [more]

Remington Collins the Leicester-based insurance broker is merging with the Beckett Group of East Anglia... [more]

Tote has acquired 32 Mike Dines betting shops in the North West of England for undisclosed terms taking its total number of outlets to 275... [more]

Lasmo has launched an agreed £550m takeover bid for Monument Oil & Gas which is expected to generate cost savings of about £7m a year... [more]

ICI and J&J Dyson have announced an asset swap in which ICI is paying £8.2m for Dyson's Dycat catalyst business and Dyson is paying £3.3m for ICI's Saffil alumina fibre operation... [more]

Property Asset Holdings is acquiring Northacre the London-based residential property developer for £14m and will adopt the Northacre name... [more]

Stratagem has sold its industrial door and access control business to Kaba of Switzerland for £6.3m in order to focus on refrigeration castings and motor dealerships... [more]

Roslin Bio-Med the cloning research company set up by Edinburgh's Roslin Institute is being acquired by Geron of the US and £12.5m will be invested at the institute over the next six years... [more]

John Lawrie and International Tubular Services are merging to create a combined Aberdeen-based oil and gas services company with turnover of more than £40m... [more]

Beauford has sold three Stoke-based pottery factories - Wade UK Wade USA and Allied Insulators - to a management buy-out team for £7.9m... [more]

The Post Office is acquiring Der Kurier the German express delivery company with 80 depots for undisclosed terms... [more]

Beachcroft Stanleys is merging with Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave to create the UK's tenth largest law firm and the new group will be called Beachcroft Wansbroughs... [more]

SGB is selling Comabi its French manufacturing operation to Zarges Tubesca for £5.5m in order to focus on the development of a European branch network for the rental of access products... [more]

City Business Systems the Leicester-based computer systems supplier has been sold to a management team... [more]

Bensons Crisps is acquiring Country Harvest the fruit and nut snacks company for £6.7m... [more]