Scottish Power has sold its electrical appliance servicing business to amanagement buy-out for undisclosed terms which will secure the future of 140 of the 320 jobs in Cumbernauld and Castleford... [more]

Lister Bestcare the supplier of body scanning units for the NHS andprivate hospitals has doubled in size following the acquisition of Westminster Healthcare's diagnostic units in London East Anglia an... [more]

Virgin has agreed to sell its 16 French Megastores to Lagardere Media for £92m and the proceeds will be used to expand its mobile phones and other Virgin operations throughout the world... [more]

Tate & Lyle is to sell its Domino Sugar cane refining business in the US to Refined Sugars of New York for up to £145m... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Metrolina Antiques & Collectibles Fairs of the US from GAH International for £2.8m. ... [more]

WSP has acquired Marcial Echenique & Partners the Cambridge-based transport planning practice with 16 consultants... [more]

John Wood Group has acquired Lovegreen Turbine Services of the US for undisclosed terms in order to increase its share of the international heavy industrial turbine market... [more]

Centrica has acquired 129 Halfords garages from Boots for £5.7m and will invest £10m in the sites in order to expand the range of motoring services offered by its AA division... [more]

IPC Media the consumer magazine publisher has been acquired by AOL Time Warner for £1.15bn... [more]

HMV Media has agreed to hand over the online book retailing operations of Waterstone's to Amazon.co.uk which is expected to lead to the closure of a dedicated fulfilment centre in Bath... [more]

Hunting is to acquire Performance Drilling Wyoming and Performance Boring Technologies for £2.7m in order to expand its drilling technology business in the US... [more]

PeopleDoc the Edinburgh-based collaboration software specialist has been acquired by Hummingbird of Canada for £13m... [more]

Ellis Fairbank the Yorkshire recruitment group with about 100 consultants has undergone a £19m management buy-out backed by Lloyds TSB Development Capital... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to acquire La Casera the Spanish lemonade company for £72m... [more]

RMC is to sell the Ytong aerated concrete products business in Germany to Franz Haniel for £169m... [more]

Aero-Print the Aylesbury-based airline ticket printer with 100 staff has been bought out of administration by Avia Invest Leasing... [more]

Coats Viyella has sold its Somercotes-based Branded Menswear Unit to a management buy-out securing the future of 210 jobs... [more]

Compass has acquired Vendepac the supplier of vending machines from TM Group for £84m... [more]

CGNU is to acquire the Insurance Corporation of Singapore from DBS Group for £152m which will more than double its presence in Asia... [more]

Enic is to sell its ukbetting.com bookmaking business to a new company called UKbetting for £3m... [more]