Edinburgh Fund Managers has acquired Portfolio Fund Management from Liberty International for up to £20m... [more]

Hanover International is to buy the Sundridge Park conference and training centre in Kent from PA Consulting for £15m... [more]

Allied Domecq is to buy two Argentine wine producers - Bodegas y Vinedos Graffigna and Vinedos y Bodegas Sainte Sylvie - for about £30m... [more]

CeNes Pharmaceuticals has acquired Management Dynamics Cambridge a specialist organisational psychology company and merged it with its own cognition division to create a business called Cambridge Cogn... [more]

Domestic & General has acquired Inkfish the operator of call centres in Slough Redhill and Brighton for up to £14m... [more]

Iomart has bought Actis the Glasgow-based internet security company out of liquidation for undisclosed terms... [more]

Kingfisher is to sell its Superdrug health and beauty stores to Kruidvat of the Netherlands for £310m... [more]

Bank of Ireland is to acquire Willis Financial the independent financial adviser for £40m which will provide its Bristol & West division with a network of 18 offices and 100 consultants... [more]

Powderject Pharmaceuticals has acquired SBL Vaccin the Swedish vaccines company for £35m and is now looking to sell the rights to its needleless syringe... [more]

Centrica has acquired the UK division of One.Tel the Australian telecoms company that went into administration in May for £58m... [more]

William Jacks has acquired the assets of Hapstead Engineering the Sussex-based Volvo dealer for £0.4m... [more]

Wardle Group has expanded its West Midlands travel agency business with the acquisition of two local companies - the Towns Travel chain and Lichfield-based Travelbods... [more]

Eurocall has bought Callcom the Manchester-based telecoms installation company out of administration... [more]

Emap has sold its Petersen magazine division in the US to Primedia for £366m in order to focus on its core activities in the UK and France. ... [more]

Smiths Group has sold its Eschmann medical equipment business which employs 230 people in West Sussex and Singapore to a group of private investors for £11m... [more]

Union has sold its margin share trading and foreign exchange operations to Man Financial for £1.8m... [more]

Inter Link Foods has taken up its longstanding option to buy the William Lusty bakery from Bank of Scotland for £0.4m... [more]

Lovells is to merge with Paris and Brussels-based Simeon & Associes creating a combined law firm with more than 130 partners in continental Europe... [more]

Hammond Suddards Edge is to merge with Rossotto e Associati the Italian law firm with 44 lawyers... [more]

LGC has acquired Promochem of Germany for £10m in order to expand its pharmaceutical testing services in a number of European countries... [more]