Gyrus has sold its surgical drapes business to Microtek Medical for £2.5m.... [more]

Capita Group has acquired Cost Auditing, the London-based provider of legal cost auditing services for the insurance sector, for up to £7.9m.... [more]

Vertex has acquired 7C, the call centre operator with 434 staff at sites in Liverpool, Birkenhead, London, Pembroke and India.... [more]

Document Express, the Oldham-based office equipment supplier with 40 staff, has undergone a multi-million pound management buy-out.... [more]

RM Neilson and Johnstone Binnie-McKenzie have merged to create a combined Glasgow-based quantity surveying business with a staff of 20.... [more]

Bullough has sold its Boulter boiler manufacturing business to Buderus Heiztechnik of Germany for £8.5m.... [more]

Unilever is to sell Pamol Group, the Malaysian producer of palm oil, to Palmco for £97m.... [more]

Babcock International has sold BMH Chronos Richardson, the Nottingham-based weighing and packing group with about 100 staff, to Premier Tech of Canada for a nominal sum.... [more]

Holders Technology is to acquire the PCB materials business of Cimatec of Germany for £0.7m.... [more]

Hanson has paid £48m for five acquisitions, including Marshalls Flooring of Nottinghamshire, Small Lots bagged building materials of Kettering, the Red Bank soft mud brick factory in Leicestershire an... [more]

RMR is to acquire Talent Group, the independent TV production company, in a £1.3m reverse takeover.... [more]

Lancashire Dairies has sold its flavoured milk division out of receivership to a management team for £3.2m, creating a new company called Pure Milk with 66 staff.... [more]

Durlacher has sold its ShareCast online research service to Digital Look, in order to focus on stockbroking.... [more]

Central Press Features, the Bristol-based provider of editorial content to newspapers, has been sold by Northcliffe Newspapers to the Press Association for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Ford has sold its Hertz Lease car fleet management business to Societe Generale of France for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Medical Solutions is to sell its pharmaceuticals division to Ecolab of the US for £16m and its Cellpath business to Clinicare Products for £1.6m.... [more]

Isoft has acquired Revive, the supplier of e-booking systems to the NHS, for an initial £1m.... [more]

Vantis has acquired the non-audit business of London-based Crompton & Sherling for up to £0.6m.... [more]

Invensys has sold Fasco Motors to Tecumseh Products of the US for £266m, as part of a strategy to focus on product management and energy management.... [more]

Computacenter has acquired GE CompuNet, the German IT services company, for an initial £36m.... [more]