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]

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

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]

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]

Marconi has acquired MSI the London-based wireless network consultancy for £391m as part of a strategy to position itself against the big telecoms companies... [more]

Confetti Network has acquired Braut.de the German online wedding business for undisclosed terms as part of a strategy to expand across Europe... [more]

Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to acquire Burke Ford Group for an initial £5m to create a combined retail insurance business operating within the JLT Corporate Risks & Services division... [more]

Timtec International the Somercotes-based interior contractor has been bought by EuroTelecom Communications of Mexborough Yorkshire for £0.6m... [more]

Alstom is to acquire Sunvic of Germany in order to expand its electrical contracting business into the petrochemical and chemical industries... [more]

Johnstone Douglas the financial planning consultancy has been acquired by Alexander Forbes of South Africa for £42m... [more]

Just2Clicks has acquired Granite Rocks the supplier of geophysical services to oil companies for £0.7m in order to start online trading in the energy sector... [more]