Tandem Group has acquired Ben Sayers, the East Lothian-based golf equipment manufacturer, from The Caledonian Golf Group for £1.1m... [more]

Baltimore Technologies has sold its Content Technologies e-mail security division to Clearswift for £21m... [more]

Claims Direct is to acquire Claimline, the personal injury claims specialist, for £1.5m, and has also announced plans to communicate with more customers by post rather than employing claims managers... [more]

Endsleigh Insurance Services, the operator of 129 insurance shops, is planning a management buy-out from Dutch-based Goudse for undisclosed terms... [more]

Biolife Ventures is planning a reverse takeover of Zimed, the North Wales-based developer of an intravenous drip monitoring device... [more]

Carlyle Group, the US private equity firm, is leading a consortium to bid for a major stake in Qinetiq, the former Ministry of Defence laboratories, which the Government plans to privatise. ... [more]

Tower Records, one of the world's largest music retailers, has put its Japanese operations up for sale. Deutsche Bank has been appointed to handle the sale. ... [more]

McInerney Holdings has acquired Charlton Group, the Lancashire-based construction and property development company, for £8m... [more]

Wealth Management Software has sold its estate agency software business to management for £0.2m... [more]

PII Group, the Cramlington-based provider of pipeline inspection services with 1,000 staff worldwide, has been bought from HgCapital by GE Power Systems of the US for undisclosed terms... [more]

Hovat, the Kent-based food packaging company, has undergone a £3m management buy-out, and the subsequent acquisition of Ascom Addressing of Dartford will create one of the country's leading label prin... [more]

Interserve has sold West's Engineering Design of Darlington to a management buy-out for £3m, securing the future of 150 jobs... [more]

Yell has agreed to acquire McLeod US Publishing, the US directories business, for £414m... [more]

Napier Brown has sold its Express Products pi,a manufacturing business in Lymington to management for £0.5m, and the business has been renamed Doughology... [more]

Seeboard, the electricity company based in the South East, will be put up for sale next month by its US parent American Electric Power. ABN Amro and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney are expected to invit... [more]

Apax Partners has pulled out of a bid for Baltimore Technologies' Content Technologies business after shares fell recently. Baltimore Technologies, an internet security group, insists that there are s... [more]

Argonaut Games has acquired Particle Systems, the Sheffield-based computer games developer with 40 staff, for £2.4m.... [more]

VFG's film and TV rental equipment business has been bought out of receivership by VFG Holdings, a new company backed by HBOS and ING Barings, in a £9m deal.... [more]

Cambridge Antibody Technology is to acquire Drug Royalty Corporation of Canada for £55m.... [more]

Schneider Electric, the French electrical equipment group, has hired Merrill Lynch to advise it on how to dispose of Legrand, the rival French group it bought last year. Potential buyers are already t... [more]