Acquisition Resources

Headlam has acquired DJ Hann, the regional distributor of floorcoverings, for an initial £0.5m, and will relocate the business to Headlam's distribution centre in Newbury... [more]

Enterprise has acquired Lloyd & Scotter Lighting, the Hull-based provider of street lighting services, for £1.5m... [more]

Smartlogik, the developer of knowledge management software, is to sell its assets to Applied Psychology Research for £1.7m, and APR will take on 36 of the 67 staff... [more]

Nationwide Accident Repair Services, the car repair specialist, has accepted a £24m takeover bid from Guinness Peat... [more]

International Academy, the football holiday company, is to undergo a £7m reverse takeover by Leisure Ventures... [more]

CSS Stellar is to acquire Craigie Taylor International, the Guildford-based sports sponsorship company, for up to £10m... [more]

Venture capital group 3i has put its private care group Care Principles, up for sale for an estimated price of £125m. Suffolk-based Care Principles operates a portfolio of just 300 beds with a focus ... [more]

BP has put its only independent British power station, at Great Yarmouth, up for sale. It is worth about £125m. The 400MW gas fired station was built by Amoco. JP Morgan has been brought in to hand... [more]

ABB, the troubled Swiss group that is backing out of financial services to focus on its core engineering activities, has put its reinsurance arm Sirius International Insurance Corp up for sale. Siriu... [more]

Charles Stanley is to acquire Robson Cotterell, the Bournemouth-based stockbroker, for up to £9.5m... [more]

Idea Integration, the Brierley Hill-based software developer, has undergone a management buy-out from US parent MPS for undisclosed terms... [more]

Pimpernel has expanded its tablemats business with the acquisition of Cloverleaf Group, and will close Cloverleaf's Swindon factory with the loss of 90 jobs and recruit 30 new staff at its base near C... [more]

Mappin & Webb is to acquire Robertsons, the London-based pawnbroker, for about £1m... [more]

Westminster Healthcare is to sell the Priory chain of 29 health clinics to Doughty Hanson for £290m... [more]

Palletways, the logistics company, has undergone a £12m management buy-out backed by 3i... [more]

British European Associated Publishers, the publisher of pu,le magazines, is to undergo a £37m management buy-out from Sanoma Magazine of Finland... [more]

QuantaNova, the biotechnology company that has 58 staff and was formerly known as Scotia, has been bought of administration by Biolitec of Germany for undisclosed terms... [more]

The Ministry of Defence is pushing ahead with the sale of Qinetiq, the government-owned defence research group, which is being privatised. It is believed that at least twelve companies have been invit... [more]

Lossmaking Internet security software maker, Baltimore Technologies, will decide in three to six months whether to put the company up for sale or not. So far, about 450 jobs have been cut with a furth... [more]

Acal is to acquire ATMParts, the Hampshire-based distributor of spare parts for cash dispensers, for £8m... [more]