Lastminute.com is to acquire Travelprice, the provider of online travel services in France, Italy, Belgium and Spain, for £32m.... [more]

Terence Chapman, the software adviser to investment banks, has put itself up for sale following pre-tax losses of £2.8m.... [more]

Easynet is to acquire most of the German web-hosting assets of Ision Internet and Ision Sales & Services out of administration for £2.2m. ... [more]

Grand Vacation Club has acquired CBM Group, the Spanish holiday firm with resorts in Majorca and Gran Canaria, for £7.5m.... [more]

Auto Credit Trust is planning to acquire Direct Car Finance, the provider of car loans to people with poor credit ratings, for about £10m.... [more]

Wolseley has acquired a number of plastic pipe distribution companies from Glynwed Pipe Systems for £23m.... [more]

AF Blakemore has acquired John Edwards of Bangor, taking its cash and carry estate to eight.... [more]

Scrivens has acquired Melson Wingate, the Dorset-based chain of 40 opticians, creating an enlarged nationwide network with about 100 branches and 1,000 staff.... [more]

PDG Helicopters of Inverness has acquired Irish Helicopters for £2m, and is now looking to buy two charter helicopter operations in England. ... [more]

Pernod Ricard is to sell BWG, the Irish convenience stores group with 233 Spar and Mace stores in Northern Ireland, to a management buy-out for £220m.... [more]

Albert Fisher's receivers have sold the group's frozen and chilled recipe dish business to Coldwater Seafood, securing the future of 250 jobs in Redditch.... [more]

Boosey & Hawkes, the music business, has been trying to sell off its instruments business. It needs to sell this division before disposing of its music publishing division, which owns one of the bigge... [more]

Spectris, formerly Fairey, the controls and instrumentation group, is to buy Phillips Analytical for £96.5m.... [more]

Spectris is to acquire Philips Analytical, the Dutch-based analytical instruments business of Royal Philips Electronics, for £96m, partly funded by a £40m share placing.... [more]

Northgate is to acquire a 40% stake in Fualsa, the Spanish van rental company, for £10m, and has an option to buy the remaining 60% by May 2006.... [more]

Corus is to acquire Companhia Sideurgica Nacional, the Brazilian steelmaker, for £2.7bn, which will provide access to cheaper supplies of iron ore.... [more]

May Gurney has acquired T Cartledge, the Chelmsford-based lighting contractor, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Morse has acquired SSI Computer Group, the Irish computer supply and services company with 30 staff, for £3m.... [more]

DS Smith is to acquire Zewathener, the German bag-in-box packaging group with 80 staff, by buying a 51% stake from SCA Packaging and the remaining 49% from the current management.... [more]

Genus has acquired the business and certain assets of Dunwood VS, the Aberdeen-based wholesale veterinary distribution company currently in receivership, for £0.9m.... [more]