Dechra Pharmaceuticals is to acquire North Western Laboratories of Lancashire and its Cambridge Specialist Laboratory Services subsidiary for £2.8m, in order to expand its veterinary pharmaceuticals b... [more]

Aortech is to acquire the critical care operations of Becton Dickinson of the US, which manufactures monitoring devices and catheters and includes a factory in Singapore, for £36m... [more]

Project Telecom has acquired TW Telecom, the Manchester-based mobile telecoms company with 15,000 customers, for undisclosed terms... [more]

United Drug has acquired New Splint, the Hampshire-based supplier of medical devices, for £7m... [more]

Ulster Television is to acquire Treaty Radio, the Irish radio broadcaster, for £10m... [more]

Warthog has acquired 42-Bit, the Swedish computer games developer, for £0.4m... [more]

Lastminute.com has acquired TravelSelect.com, the London-based online travel company, for £12m... [more]

German banking group Commerzbank is expected to slash the asking price for its lossmaking asset management business, Jupiter. Commerzbank is asking for £600m for Jupiter, but may have to accept £200m ... [more]

Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff could go into receivership by the end of the month, unless rescue plans win government backing. Controversially, it wishes to sell long leases on a tranche of water... [more]

Cine-UK, one of the country's biggest multiplex cinema operators, has been put up for sale for £150m, and Odeon, Britain's biggest cinema chain, is seen as a likely buyer. The company owns 25 sites ar... [more]

Premier Management Holdings is to acquire Sports Player Management, the football management agency, for up to £3.4m... [more]

BOC Edwards is to sell its US glass coating business to Von Ardenne Anlagentechnik of Germany, which will involve the transfer of about 70 staff... [more]

Rexam is to sell its Image Products coated films and papers business to Sun Capital of the US for £42m... [more]

Liberty, the world famous department store in London, has been put up for sale as its owners Marylebone Warwick Balfour have announced a four year strategy to dispose of all its assets. This would als... [more]

Energis, the cash strapped UK telecommunications company, has said that it will let its Swiss telecommunications operation go into insolvency after failing to find a buyer. The business was originally... [more]

Biocompatibles, the medical devices specialist, is coming under pressure from shareholders to abandon plans to sell the core of its business following a US court judgement against a competitor, which ... [more]

The long-awaited sale of Consors, Europe's second biggest online broker, has been held up by differences over valuation. Bidders have refused to pay a top price for the lossmaking broker, although ban... [more]

BP Chemicals is to sell its Performance Films packaging business, including plants in Barnsley and Poland with more than 400 staff, to Parkside Flexibles of West Yorkshire for undisclosed terms... [more]

Spence Bryson, the Portadown-based handkerchief factory with 27 staff, has been bought out of receivership by a management team... [more]

Gillman & Soame, the Oxford-based photographic company, has been bought out of receivership by a management team, saving 80 jobs... [more]