Aga Foodservice has acquired Belshaw Brothers, the US manufacturer of doughnut equipment, from Enodis for about £16m... [more]

Temprint and Cornwall Lithographic Printers have merged their Redruth-based printing businesses into a newly formed holding company called Pryntya, with combined turnover of £4.8m... [more]

Matalan is to acquire Wolsey, the Leicester-based menswear supplier with annual turnover of £14m, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Zetters is to acquire Financial Spreads, the spread betting company, from Sporting Index for £8.7m, partly funded by a £4.7m share placing... [more]

Pell Frischmann has acquired Morgan Horne, the water and sewage consulting engineer, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Radamec has sold the surface mount assemblies and hybrid microsystems business of Radamec Electronic Systems to Sascal of Hayes for £0.25m... [more]

Delta is to sell Sourdillon, the manufacturer of gas burners in France, Mexico and the US, to Burner Systems International for £18m... [more]

Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mazola corn products business in the US and 18 other brands from Unilever for £248m... [more]

Siemens, the electronics group, has put its network systems business up for sale for around £160m. Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, is believed to be handling the sale. Interested bidders include A... [more]

Britain's biggest brewer, Scottish & Newcastle, is studying a proposal to unlock up to £1.2bn from the sale of all or part of its portfolio of 1400 managed pubs including the Rat & Parrot brand and C... [more]

Private equity firm, BC Partners, is preparing to sell Elis, Europe's second largest textile cleaning businesses, and raise up to £900m. Goldman Sachs has been appointed to handle the sale. Possible b... [more]

Automatic Handling Europe has acquired SHS Handling Systems, the manufacturer of integrated corrugating and materials handling solutions, and will relocate its Northwich operation to the SHS factory a... [more]

Densitron Technologies has bought Ferrograph, the Tyneside-based manufacturer of public information display systems, out of receivership for £0.3m... [more]

T Clarke has acquired WE Manin, the Sittingbourne-based electrical contractor with 60 staff, for £1.6m... [more]

National Grid and Lattice are planning a £15bn merger to create a combined gas and electricity group called National Grid Transco... [more]

Dixon Motors has accepted a £110m takeover bid from Royal Bank of Scotland, which will enable the car dealership to exploit synergies with the Lombard asset finance division of RBS... [more]

NWF Group has acquired the Dukeries Garden Centre in Worksop for £2.4m, and now operates six Country Stores and three Garden Centres... [more]

Medical Solutions has sold Thackray Instruments and Thackray Practice Plus to Williams Medical Supplies of South Wales for £0.7m... [more]

Britmag, the Hartlepool-based magnesium works, has been bought out of administration by a management team under the name of CJC Chemical for undisclosed terms, saving 44 jobs... [more]

Gieves & Hawkes, the menswear retailer, has accepted a £7.9m takeover bid from USI of Hong Kong... [more]