Marshalls has acquired Stancliffe Stone the natural stone and paving supplier for £10m... [more]

Scottish & Newcastle is selling 432 managed pubs to Enterprise Inns for £263m and 214 pubs to Noble House Leisure for £97m and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt... [more]

MG Rover is to acquire Qvale Automotive the Italian sports car company with 70 staff... [more]

Shiloh is to acquire Hunters Mobility Services the Sunderland-based supplier of mobility equipment to hospitals for up to £1.1m. ... [more]

Presswork Partnerships has acquired KAB Pressings of Wolverhampton from holding company Ricor to create a combined car parts business with turnover of £10m and a workforce of more than 100... [more]

Bailey Peerless the Birmingham-based specialist engineering company with 200 staff has been sold by the receivers of the Edgbaston Group to Marmon of the US... [more]

Stagecoach is selling its Portuguese bus operations to an unnamed company for £14m as part of a strategy to focus on the UK US New Zealand and Hong Kong... [more]

Maplin the electronics retailer has undergone a £42m management buy-out backed by Graphite Capital and there are plans to expand the chain from 59 to 100 stores over the next few years... [more]

WH Smith has bought Blue Star Consumer Retailing operating in Australia and New Zealand for £38m... [more]

NewMedia Spark is to acquire GlobalNetFinancial the online financial services company for about £9m... [more]

Aerofone the mobile phone service provider has been bought by Stanhope Communications for £20m... [more]

Ciro Citterio the menswear retailer has been bought out of administration by Trident Fashions for undisclosed terms saving 1100 jobs at 130 stores... [more]

Churchill Insurance is to acquire AMP's general insurance operations in the UK for £80m which will involve the transfer of about 420 Peterborough-based staff... [more]

Holland & Barrett has acquired Natures Way the Irish health food retailer for undisclosed terms... [more]

Discovery Store the gift retailer has been bought out of administration by Caudwell Group for undisclosed terms securing the future of 30 shops and 250 staff... [more]

British Airways has sold Go the airline business to a management buy-out backed by 3i for £110m... [more]

Static the interactive media company is being acquired by OpenTV the US supplier of software for set-top boxes for £42m... [more]

GT Cheshire & Sons the Kidderminster-based printing company has undergone a management buy-out from Great Universal Stores for undisclosed terms securing the future of 110 jobs... [more]

CGNU is to acquire Fortis Australia from Fortis Group for £111m in order to expand its general insurance business in Australia... [more]

Premier Farnell is to acquire Buck & Hickman the industrial product catalogue distributor with 29 UK branches from Charles Baynes for £65m... [more]