Travelcare has acquired 13 Holiday City outlets, taking its total number of branches to 370.... [more]

Corus is to acquire Precoat International, the steel pressings company with 250 staff at two Welsh plants in Cardiff and Cross Keys, for £7.2m.... [more]

Carphone Warehouse has acquired Opal Telecom, the Warrington-based provider of fixed-line telecom services, for £65m.... [more]

Center Parcs, the chain of four holiday villages, is being acquired by Sun Capital Partners in a £465m sale and leaseback deal.... [more]

Oasis Healthcare has acquired Ora Dental Group, the operator of ten dental surgeries in London and the south-east, for up to £5m.... [more]

Logica and CMG have announced plans for a £510m merger to create a combined IT services business named LogicaCMG, which will lead to the loss of about 1,400 jobs.... [more]

Range Cooker, the supplier of upmarket kitchens, has accepted a £22m takeover offer from Britannia Living and Graphite Capital Management.... [more]

Building Design Partnership has announced plans to merge with Whicheloe Macfarlane, the architecture and design company with 80 staff at offices in Bristol and Southampton.... [more]

RMC Aggregates has acquired FB Gibbons & Sons, the operator of a sand and gravel pit near Peterborough, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Meggitt has acquired Lodge, the supplier of aerospace sensors and transducers with 100 staff at sites in Basingstoke and Rugby, from Smiths Group for £33m.... [more]

Dunn-Line has acquired Durham Travel Services for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 70 jobs, in order to expand its coach business further north.... [more]

Tui, the German tourism group that owns Lunn Poly and Thomson holidays, is selling its energy division Preussag Energie.... [more]

A number of parties are considering bids for Aberdeen Property Investors, the property arm of Aberdeen Asset Management. The business manages assets of over £6bn and is valued at around £200m.... [more]

Teather & Greenwood the listed securities house is selling its private client fund management arm. Several bidders are vying for the business which could fetch an estimated £5m.... [more]

Homeform, the kitchen and bathroom retailer formerly known as Limelight, is for sale with a price tag of more than £100m. Deloitte and Touche has been appointed to handle the sale.... [more]

Specsavers has acquired Leicester-based hearing aid chain HearCare for about £2m, which is expected to lead to the creation of 400 jobs and 100 new private hearing aid centres across the country over ... [more]

Clear Channel has sold its Score Outdoor advertising display business, which has 40 staff, to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Opsys, the developer of mobile phone screens, has been acquired by Cambridge Display Technology for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Ten Alps Communications has acquired Brook Lapping Productions, the producer of TV documentaries, for £2.4m.... [more]

MFI has acquired Sofa Workshop for £12m, and the Sofa Workshop products will be introduced into all 192 MFI furniture stores by the end of 2003.... [more]