QuadraNet is to acquire Accronym Holdings, the developer of operational software for health clubs, for £1.5m.... [more]

Aggreko has acquired Compressores Esteve, the Spanish generator rental company with net assets of £0.3m.... [more]

Pubmaster has acquired Pub.com for £17m, taking its chain of Scottish pubs from 33 to 71, and is now in talks to buy another chain of 20 pubs for £5m.... [more]

Esporta, the fitness club operator, has confirmed that it has received several approaches from potential bidders after warning on profits for the second time in three months. Whitbread, owner of the D... [more]

Smartlogik has bought Insight Technologies, the Surrey-based developer of knowledge capture software, out of administration for £0.3m.... [more]

Aegis has acquired two US interactive media agencies for £1.9m - San Francisco-based Lot 21 and Massachusetts-based Vizium.... [more]

Biocompatibles has sold its eye care division, which includes 950 staff at sites in Farnborough, Australia, Spain and the US, to Cooper Companies of the US for £68m.... [more]

Benlowe Group, which includes the Thomas Lowe staircase business and Bennett Windows, has undergone a £8m management buy-out.... [more]

Simon Group, the ports and logistics company, has put itself up for sale, following pressure from shareholders. Associated British Ports, the UK's largest port operator, is interested in bidding for H... [more]

T Clarke has acquired GDI Electrical, the Manchester-based electrical contractor with 30 staff, for £1.6m.... [more]

Exel has acquired All Cargo Logistics, the Austrian air freight forwarder operating from three sites in Vienna, Linz and Innsbruck.... [more]

Tate & Lyle has sold East African Storage of Kenya to African Bulk Commodities and Tanzania Liquids Storage to Africa Tank Terminals, and the deals include assets worth £1.3m.... [more]

IRevolution has sold Fund Management Services, the provider of software and services to the fund management sector, to Linedata Services for £0.7m.... [more]

Park Lane Caledonian, the Glasgow-based property firm, has undergone a £10m management buy-out backed by Bank of Scotland.... [more]

Allied Irish Banks, Ireland's leading financial services group, has put AIB Govett, its British fund manager, up for sale with a price tag of around £120m. A number of fund managers have been contacte... [more]

Galen Holdings, the speciality pharmaceutical company is to sell its Clinical Trial Services (CTS) division, raising up to £250m. The group intends to focus on women's health. Galen is also expected ... [more]

Bang & Olufsen, the Danish maker of audio equipment, has put itself up for sale for more than £300m. The company has struggled against intensive competition in recent years and has suffered a long ter... [more]

Bridgepoint Capital is to acquire Toman Group of Germany for £80m and merge the business with its IMO Car Wash operation, creating one of the world's largest car-wash operators with 800 sites in 12 Eu... [more]

Yorkshire Cottage Bakeries has bought Mother Hubbard Cakes, the Hyde-based manufacturer of cake bars, out of administration.... [more]

Arrow Therapeutics has acquired Oxford Gene Technology in a deal estimated at £6m.... [more]