First Choice Holidays has sold its Spanish retail and business travel operations to Barcelo of Spain for £30m.... [more]

MyTravel is to sell Lexington Services, the provider of hotel connectivity services, to an affiliate of VIP International Corporation for £4.6m.... [more]

Centurfax has acquired Marlowe Graphic Services, which will involve the closure of an office in Ampthill.... [more]

Sage has completed the acquisition of Softline, the South African supplier of business management software.... [more]

Cox Insurance has acquired Bennetts UK, the Worcester-based insurance broker with 20 branches, for £4.5m.... [more]

Sanctuary Group has acquired Creole Records, the reggae music company, for £1.3m.... [more]

Diploma has acquired Filcon Electronic, the German supplier of specialist connectors to the defence and aerospace markets, for £4.3m.... [more]

ITIS Holdings is to acquire Estimotion, the Israel-based developer of traffic forecasting systems based on the position of mobile phone, for up to £2.8m.... [more]

First Choice Holidays has sold its Spanish retail and business travel operations to Barcelo of Spain for £30m.... [more]

MyTravel is to sell Lexington Services, the provider of hotel connectivity services, to an affiliate of VIP International Corporation for £4.6m.... [more]

Centurfax has acquired Marlowe Graphic Services, which will involve the closure of an office in Ampthill.... [more]

The Government is to sell the US arm of British Nuclear Fuels, the state-owned nuclear services firm. Westinghouse has an estimated turnover of $1bn. Earlier this year, Patricia Hewitt, the trade secr... [more]

PayPoint, the payment collection business, has been put up for sale. Ernst & Young has been appointed to handle the sale, which is believed to be worth an estimated £100m. Several private equity and t... [more]

Wood Group has sold Enterprise Engineering Services, which employs 100 staff in Aberdeen, to Dales 2003 of Peterhead for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Grampian has acquired St Merryn, the meat products supplier with 2,000 staff and plants in Cornwall and South Wales.... [more]

Wilson Bowden has acquired Ward Homes Group for £29m, in order to expand its housebuilding operations in the south-east.... [more]

Oasis Stores, the fashion retailer, has been acquired by Baugur of Iceland for £152m.... [more]

Pentagon Protection has acquired FilmTek, the solar and security window film supplier, for £1.5m.... [more]

JJB Sports is planning to sell its TJ Hughes chain of 37 discount department stores to a management buy-out for £56m.... [more]

Wood Group has sold Enterprise Engineering Services,which employs 100 staff in Aberdeen, to Dales 2003 of Peterhead for undisclosed terms.... [more]