Gameplay has sold its CentroMail chain of computer games stores in Spain to Electronics Boutique for £3.6m... [more]

Peoplesound.com the online music company is being acquired by Vitaminic of Italy in a deal worth £21m... [more]

WT Foods the ethnic foods manufacturer is in a £79m management buy-out backed by Bridgepoint Capital... [more]

Online Travel Corporation has acquired the assets of Emap Digital Travel for £2.8m... [more]

First Milk has acquired the Aeron Valley cheese company in West Wales from Milk Marque in a deal believed to be worth more than £5m. ... [more]

Tate & Lyle is to sell its Western Sugar business in the US to the Rocky Mountain Sugar Growers Co-operative and is also negotiating the sale of its Domino Sugar cane refining operation... [more]

Basys Technology the defence contracting company has been bought out of receivership by Space Technology Systems saving 130 jobs at the Gosport factory... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes has confirmed plans for the £419m acquisition of Pernod Ricard's soft drinks operations which include the Orangina brand... [more]

Longacre Partners is to acquire Lommen the Swedish corporate finance house as part of its European expansion programme... [more]

Dixons is to acquire SuperRadio the Danish chain of out-of-town electrical superstores and will rebrand the outlets under its El- Giganten name... [more]

Huntleigh Technology is to acquire Joyce Healthcare the Australian manufacturer of hospital beds for £3m... [more]

Barrier Technology the Manchester-based foil packaging company with 15 staff has undergone a management buy-out from SNEC of France for undisclosed terms... [more]

Firth Rixson has sold its Chesterfield-based Cromdane Steel & Engineering subsidiary to French-owned International Metal Service for £4.1m... [more]

Sportsworld Media has acquired Uplink Sport 2000 and Uplink Media of New Zealand for £2.5m in order to expand its sports TV production Transacsys has acquired Trinity Web Consultancy the software deve... [more]

Innovation Group is to expand its insurance software business with the £8m acquisition of three companies - IBS SDS and Reboot. Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired International Fine Art Expositio... [more]

Telewest is to acquire Rapid Travel Solutions for up to £10m which will enable it to connect travel agents to its broadband internet network... [more]

Metalrax has acquired the Classic Housewares division of Frederick Cooper for £0.8m in order to expand its kitchenware products business... [more]

Toad has acquired SC Hill the manufacturer of Datatool motorcycle alarms for up to £3m... [more]

Lloyd's Register is planning to acquire MHA Systems for undisclosed terms as part of a strategy to move into the international rail safety market... [more]

WS Atkins is to acquire ScanRail the transport consultancy from the Danish National Railway Agency for £6m... [more]