Acquisition Resources

Lighthouse Group is to sell two subsidiaries - Lighthouse Independent Financial Advisers (City) and Lighthouse Independent Financial Advisers (Kent) - to a former executive.... [more]

Media Square has expanded its marketing services business with the acquisition of FI Direct, FI System, e-principals and Fourninety, gaining 61 additional staff in Leeds and Manchester.... [more]

Enact Pharma has acquired De Montfort Biopharma of Leicestershire for an initial £0.5m.... [more]

First National, the consumer credit arm of Abbey National, is to be sold off piecemeal. The bank has failed to find a buyer for the whole business and is now trying to sell the 3 divisions separately.... [more]

Whitbread is to sell up to 60 Beefeater restaurants and is considering shedding the Beefeater name. The restaurants are the poorest performing in its portfolio and could fetch an estimated £50m.... [more]

Ferraris has acquired Del Mar Medical, the US supplier of heart monitors, for £6.2m.... [more]

Vivid Imaginations, the toy company, has undergone a £62m management buy-out backed by Phoenix Equity Partners.... [more]

Deutsche Bank is to sell its property investment banking team, which includes 20 London-based staff, to Eurohypo for £44m.... [more]

Crown Sports, the golf and health clubs operator, is to be acquired by Bennelong UK, a bid vehicle formed by its executive chairman, for £20m.... [more]

Sports Resource has sold its International Soccer agency business to a management team, following a decline in the player transfer market.... [more]

Kirker Holidays, the London-based travel company with 30 staff, has been sold to a management team backed by ECI Ventures for about £15m.... [more]

Park Place Capital is to support a £25m management buy-out of London-based Signature Restaurants.... [more]

Punch Taverns has acquired Conquest Inns, the operator of 61 pubs, for £26m, taking its estate to 4,484 sites.... [more]

Spirax-Sarco Engineering has acquired AMPE, the Italian manufacturer of pneumatic and electronic instrumentation, for about £1m.... [more]

Tom Cobleigh has sold its chain of 28 tenanted pubs to Daniel Thwaites for £12m.... [more]

Thomas Potts, the print manufacturer, is planning to focus on print management and away from manufacturing. It has already disposed of 2 divisions and is selling its site in the Docklands.... [more]

Wax Lyrical, the candle retailer with sales of £11m, has been put into receivership by its US owner Blyth Inc. The 35 stores in the UK and Ireland are to be reviewed by Grant Thornton.... [more]

Tomkins has sold Fedco Automotive, the US manufacturer of automotive heater cores, to TransPro for about £5m.... [more]

Meadgate Homes, the Cardiff-based luxury housebuilder, has undergone a management buy-out from the Lexington Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]