Leeds Group has sold Sharps Fabric Printers to a management buy-out for £0.7m, completing its withdrawal from textile manufacturing.... [more]

KPMG Consulting the IT consultancy operating in the UK and Netherlands has been acquired by Amsterdam-based Atos Origin for £420m.... [more]

DSM, Germany's biggest outdoor advertising company, which will be privatised this year, is expected to attract a lot of interest from Europe and the US after being put up for sale recently. Potential... [more]

Den norske Bank and Storebrand, Norway's two largest listed financial institutions, announced they would divest their non-life insurance operations as part of a merger deal announced yesterday. These ... [more]

A range of global banks including ABN Amro and Mellon are weighing up bids for the UK fund group Jupiter, whose prospectus has recently been released. The investment house was put up for sale in April... [more]

Gaskell has sold the Crucial Trading business of Tomkinsons to Headlam Floorcovering Distributors for £1.8m, as part of a strategy to focus on its contract carpet tile and broadloom activities.... [more]

Woolworths has announced that its VCI subsidiary has sold the trading assets of its entertainment distribution business, Disc Distribution, to Deluxe Video Services for under £1m.... [more]

Centrica has acquired Tyreserve, the supplier of replacement tyres via a nationwide network, for £0.4m.... [more]

Field & Lawn Marquees has acquired CBC Marquees of Bristol for about £1.8m, which will involve the transfer of about 400 staff.... [more]

Babtie Group has acquired Rushbrook Consultants, the fire safety consultant, and will create a new business unit called Babtie Rushbrook at offices in Glasgow.... [more]

Marks & Spencer has acquired the View From sports wear clothing label for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its portfolio of in-store brands.... [more]

Babcock International has acquired Service Group International, the provider of support services to the Ministry of Defence, from Hg Capital for up to £27m.... [more]

BOC is to acquire the UK industrial gases business of Enron for about £10m, including compression facilities at a Teesside power plant.... [more]

Keenpac Holdings of Leicester has undergone a management buy-out from Bridgepoint Capital, with Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking providing a £20m debt and equity package.... [more]

Teamtalk, the sports radio and internet group, is to be acquired by UKbetting for £14m.... [more]

GET Group has sold the forged products business of its Worcester-based Tower Manufacturing subsidiary to Floform of Welshpool for £1.8m.... [more]

FKI is to acquire DeWind, the German manufacturer of wind turbines, for £12m.... [more]

Ferraris has sold its specialist engineering division, which includes Jenaer Gewindetechnik in Germany, Jena Rotary Technology in the UK and Jena-Tec in the US to Avingtrans for £3m.... [more]

CeNes Pharmaceuticals has sold its cognitive testing division to a management team operating under the name of Cambridge Cognition for up to £1m.... [more]

Whitbread has sold Pelican and BrightReasons, which together comprise 153 restaurants, to a management buy-in backed by private equity firm ECI for £25m.... [more]