Malibu rum is expected to go up for sale after US regulators recently blocked Diageo and Pernod Ricard's acquisition of Seagram's drinks business. Offering to sell the label would allay the US Federal... [more]

Bunzl has acquired Nebraska-based Packers, the supplier of disposable products to the beef and pork industry, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Sage has acquired Coala, the French supplier of business management software, for £13m... [more]

John Mowlem has acquired Daubney, the Lincoln-based mechanical and electrical contractor, for up to £5.5m... [more]

Hartest has acquired Tinsley Group, the Croydon-based manufacturer of cable fault testing equipment, for £1.9m, and is also raising £3m in a share placing... [more]

Toms of Denmark has acquired Parrs Quality Confectionery, the Poole-based manufacturer of wine gums with 250 staff... [more]

Sanctuary has acquired the Black Box Music classical and ja, record label for £0.3m... [more]

Sopheon has confirmed plans to acquire Orbital Software of Edinburgh for £13m, which is expected to lead to job cuts among the 325-strong combined workforce... [more]

RM has acquired Softease, the Derbyshire-based educational software developer, for up to £4.9m... [more]

ITG Group has acquired the Dunfermline-based Transaction Services Division of De La Rue for £6m, in order to expand its business servicing cellular and utility prepayments.... [more]

Budget Financial Services has acquired Dial Direct Insurance Marketing, the insurance intermediary with 536 Coventry-based staff... [more]

Wimpy, one of the UK’s oldest hamburger chains, is up for sale and could fetch upto £20m. Deloitte & Touche have been appointed to find a buyer. ... [more]

Pennon Group has acquired two waste management companies - Suffolk Waste Disposal Company for £8.6m and Manchester-based Lavelle & Sons for £3.6m... [more]

Compass is to acquire Manpower Kantineservice, the Norwegian staff restaurant company, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Bunzl has expanded its packaging consumables business with the acquisition of the DKI Group in Denmark and the Eastern Paper divisionof EPC Industries in Canada... [more]

Ten Alps Communications is to acquire Pacesetter Holdings, the London-based events organiser, for up to £2m... [more]

Nicholl Food Packaging has acquired Ekco Packaging, the Chesham-based manufacturer of aluminium foil containers with sites in Portsmouth,Belgium and France... [more]

RMC Concrete Products has acquired Russell Concrete Products in order to gain three additional manufacturing plants in Scotland... [more]

Oscar Faber, the engineering and facilities management consultancy, has been acquired by Maunsell for undisclosed terms, creating a new group called Faber Maunsell... [more]

Scott Wilson has acquired Oceans Engineering, the St Austell-based wind energy specialist, for undisclosed terms... [more]