Acquisition Resources

Metal Bulletin has acquired Atalink the publisher of annual titles for trade associations for £13m... [more]

Bupa has announced a £230m agreed takeover bid for Community Hospitals Group in order to become the UK's largest operator of private hospitals... [more]

Atlantic Telecom is to acquire First Telecom for £520m and plans to spend £100m expanding First Telecom's DSL network in Germany. ... [more]

BAE Systems is to acquire the US-based control systems business of Lockheed Martin for £320m and is also interested in a number of electronics operations being auctioned by Lockheed... [more]

Rodamco is to acquire Scottish Metropolitan Property for £152m in order to increase its investment in the retail and industrial property markets... [more]

Standard Chartered is to acquire banking group Grindlays from its Australian parent ANZ for £823m in order to become the leading international bank in India Pakistan and Bangladesh... [more]

Britten-Norman the Isle of Wight-based aircraft manufacturer has been bought out of receivership by two investors from Oman for undisclosed terms... [more]

Hall & Woodhouse has bought King & Barnes the Horsham-based brewery and pubs group for undisclosed terms and the brewery is expected to be closed with the loss of up to 50 jobs... [more]

Caradon is planning to acquire Columbia the US aluminium extruder company for £75m and has also announced plans to put its bathroom equipment and boilers division up for sale... [more]

Ingenta has announced the reverse takeover of Aim-listed investment vehicle Delyn and will raise £3m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its online academic research business... [more]

Greencore of Ireland has acquired Williams Rodgers Foods the dried fruit manufacturer based in Kirkby-in-Ashfield for undisclosed terms. ... [more]

Currie European Transport the Dumfries-based independent road haulage firm has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms... [more]

Perkin Elmer has sold its Cambridge-based healthcare imaging division to a management buy-out for £0.8m in order to focus on life sciences.... [more]

Invensys has sold Westinghouse Brakes the rail industry supplier to Germany's Knorr-Bremse for £65m... [more]

Momentus the London-based e-consultancy is being acquired by Diamond Technology Partners of the US for £6.2m... [more]

Photobition the supplier of graphics displays has acquired four former Wace businesses in the US from Applied Graphics Technologies for £7.3m... [more]

Wolseley is selling a number of manufacturing businesses to Cinven for up to £136m including agricultural industrial motor cable and photographic operations... [more]

Barclays has sold its Dial car leasing business to ABN Amro for £269m in order to withdraw from the rapidly consolidating market.... [more]

Harvey Nash is to acquire TechPartners International for an initial £15m in order to expand its US recruitment business... [more]

Magic Moments Internet has acquired WebFusion the Nottingham-based web site designer in a deal worth up to £40m... [more]