Portman Building Society is to acquire Sun Bank the Stevenage-based mortgage specialist with 180 staff from Sun Life of Canada for £95m... [more]

Ryland Group has sold its Renault dealerships in Warwick Rugby and Coventry to Sutton Park Motor for £1.6m... [more]

Medicals Direct has acquired the medico-legal and clinics operations of The Lancer Group in order to expand its business in the insurance and legal industries... [more]

La Tasca the chain of 16 tapas bars and restaurants has undergone a £28m management buy-in supported by Penta Capital... [more]

Celltech is to acquire Thiemann the German pharmaceuticals marketing company for £31m and is also buying an undisclosed stake in Neogenesis of the US and the rights to the drug discovery technology of... [more]

Kier has acquired Allison Homes the housebuilder that trades as Swallow Homes in eastern England for £17m... [more]

Merant is to sell its DataDirect enterprise data business to Golden Gate Capital of the US for £21m... [more]

Danisco of Denmark has sold its Danisco Pack subsidiary in the UK to Mondi Packaging for £64m... [more]

Richmond Foods has confirmed plans to buy Nestle's UK ice cream business for £5.8m... [more]

David S Smith is acquiring a number of corrugated packaging operations from Mondi Packaging for £21m including sheet feeder plants in Hastings and Kettering... [more]

BPB is to acquire Dogan Alci the Turkish producer of building plasters for £4.8m... [more]

Homestyle Group has acquired The Bed Shed the Scottish bed retailer with 17 stores for an initial £4.5m... [more]

Morse has acquired a 51% stake in Integracion de Sistemas Abiertos the Spanish software company for £1.8m with an option to acquire the remaining stake... [more]

CD Bramall has acquired Tyne Tees Commercial Vehicles which includes DAF and LDV dealerships in Newcastle Darlington and Middlesbrough for £1.5m... [more]

Dobbies has bought the Cross Lane Farm garden centre in Atherstone for £4.3m... [more]

Torex is to acquire Hiscom the Dutch supplier of hospital information systems for £21m... [more]

Millfield has acquired Heritage for £10m in order to double its network of independent financial advisers to 270... [more]

WPP has acquired Mediafax the marketing research agency in Puerto Rico with 72 staff in order to expand its Kantar Media Research division. ... [more]

United Business Media has acquired Kenko Sangyo Shimbun the Japanese exhibition and publishing group for about £5m... [more]

Havelock Europa has acquired McIntosh 88 the supplier of educational science laboratories for an initial £3m... [more]