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

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

CLS Holdings is to acquire Citadel the property company that operates mainly in France for £36m... [more]

J&J Dyson has acquired Acme Marls the kiln equipment company for £1.9m and plans to consolidate its business onto the Acme Marls site in Tunstall by the end of next year with an unspecified number of ... [more]

RPC is to acquire WIKO the German manufacturer of packaging for the cosmetics industry for £25m... [more]

Umeco has acquired Richmond Aircraft Products of the US from MA Hanna for £24m... [more]

Alpha Telecom the telecoms reseller with 240 employees has been bought out of receivership by investment vehicle Fusion for £20m... [more]

Seymour Pierce is to acquire PFM the asset management group for up to £13m... [more]

Cable & Wireless has bought five more small internet companies for £67m including Eaisa of Spain Pictime of France Point of Presence of Germany and Widex and Impact of the Netherlands... [more]

National Express has announced a £162m takeover bid for Prism Rail which will give the group seven out of the 25 train operating franchises and a 20% share of the rail market... [more]

Enterprise Oil has acquired R&B Falcon's exploration interests in the Gulf of Mexico for £84m... [more]

Homestyle is to acquire Harveys Furnishings for £136m and the Harveys' high street stores will be converted to the Rosebys and Knightingales formats... [more]

Brake Bros is to acquire Cearns & Brown the Cheshire-based foodservice wholesaler for £24m... [more]

SmartStream the banking software and services company has beenacquired by 3i from Geac of Canada for £71m... [more]