Acquisition Resources

Carphone Warehouse has bought 27 French stores from Multiples for £8.7m and they will be rebranded as The Phone House... [more]

Granada Media is to acquire the broadcast programme production and international distribution business of United News & Media in a £1.75bn deal that includes the Meridian Anglia and HTV franchises... [more]

Incepta is to acquire DVL Smith Group the strategic research company for up to £7.5m... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Forum Verlagsgruppe the German education and recruitment publisher for £18m... [more]

Incepta has acquired Cunningham Communications the US agency that focuses on technology for £49m... [more]

Glynwed has acquired Mono the Swansea-based bakery equipment manufacturer in a deal thought to be worth more than £11m... [more]

Tibbett & Britten has acquired Logis International which includes two logistics businesses operating in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as part of a strategy to expand across central and eastern Europ... [more]

CGNU is to sell General Accident Versicherung its German general insurance business to Gerling-Konzern Lebensversicherung for undisclosed terms... [more]

John Menzies is acquiring Ogden Ground Services of the US for £79m in order to expand its global aviation services business... [more]

United News & Media is to sell Miller Freeman Europe the operator of more than 100 trade shows to Reed Elsevier for £360m... [more]

Wolstenholme Rink the supplier of chemicals to the printing industry has accepted a £49m takeover offer from Rutland Trust and the business will be split into two separate entities - pigments and prin... [more]

Kier has bought the trading name of the James Longley construction group from the receivers for a nominal sum in order to strengthen its presence in Sussex... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Trade Exhibitions which includes ten of Australia's leading consumer and trade shows for undisclosed terms... [more]

H Roberts & Son the Leicester-based supplier of precision measuring equipment has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms... [more]

Linklaters is to merge with Oppenhoff & Radler of Germany consolidating its position as one of Europe's leading law firms specialising in mergers and acquisitions work... [more]

ITG is acquiring Targeted Transaction Management Services the Sussex-based supplier of mobile telephone vouchers for £12m... [more]

Tanner Foods has acquired the long-life milk business of Lancashire Dairies and production will be moved to its site in Essex... [more]

Standard Engineering the Leicester-based shoe machinery specialist has acquired rival Whitfield Wylie for undisclosed terms... [more]

Eurocopy has acquired Apex Business Products the Warrington-based photocopier and fax supplier for £0.6m... [more]

Industrial Control Services the manufacturer of safety and control systems is to be acquired by venture capitalist Alchemy for a nominal fee in order to avoid insolvency... [more]