Acquisition Resources

Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy, the world' s largest luxury goods group, considers its loss making retailing division which includes Duty Free Shoppers and the Sephora cosmetics chain to be a non-core bu... [more]

WPP is to acquire Global Sportnet Beteiligungs, the German sports marketing agency with 16 staff... [more]

CSS Stellar has acquired The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group, the London-based talent agency, for up to £22m... [more]

Torex has acquired McKeown Software, the Letchworth-based supplier of financial and procurement systems to the NHS, for £12m... [more]

Blue Band Express has undergone a management buy-in for undisclosed terms, and plans to provide a nationwide delivery service from its 13 depots... [more]

Lloyds TSB has acquired CashFriday, the Gloucester-based provider of funding and payroll services to the temporary recruitment sector, for £10m, in order to expand its Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance op... [more]

Whitehead Mann is to acquire Baines Gwinner, the financial and professional services executive search firm with offices in London and New York, for £10m... [more]

Biddle, the Nuneaton-based heating manufacturer, has been acquired by Carver of Walsall for £13m... [more]

Ferschl has acquired Cleveland Flexible Engineering, the Teesside-based manufacturer of stainless steel flexible hoses, and is now looking to increase capacity at its tubeform division and invest in n... [more]

Firth Rixson is selling its Enpar alloy and stainless steel distribution business in Germany to Bohler-Uddeholm of Austria for £4.7m... [more]

Lander Carlisle has acquired the assembly department, main plant and warehouse from the receivers of Halesowen-based car components manufacturer Plastic Moulding... [more]

Tribal has acquired APD Technical for up to £10m, and is planning to raise £21m in a share placing to fund further acquisitions for its professional support services business... [more]

Thomsons, the Manchester-based independent financial adviser, has been acquired by AWD of Germany for £31m... [more]

John Laing is in the process of offloading its development and property division. The group now states: "John Laing has commenced initial discussions with buyers for its subsidiary Laing Property. Th... [more]

Highbury House Communications has acquired Millennium Magazines, the publisher of the Satellite TV Europe programme guide, for up to £ 1.5m... [more]

Maclay Murray & Spens is to acquire the private client arm of legal firm McGrigor Donald, which will involve the transfer of two partners and 15 staff... [more]

Express Dairies has sold its central Scotland dairy business to Graham's Dairies of Bridge of Alan for £0.5m... [more]

Unilever is to sell its DiverseyLever commercial cleaning business to Johnson Wax Professional of the US for £1.1bn, in order to reduce debt following the acquisition of Bestfoods... [more]

P&O Princess Cruises has announced a £4.2bn merger with Royal Caribbean Cruises, which will create a combined group with 41 ships and 40,000 staff... [more]

Scoot.com is in discussions with as many as 6 potential buyers or partners as the online directory service continues to shore up its finances. Scoot was worth up to £1.9bn in March but is now worth j... [more]