Markbeech Products, the Rowley Regis-based supplier of coconut products, has been bought out of administration by Singapore-based First Grade Agency, securing 42 jobs.... [more]

Seymour Pierce's investment banking and broking division is to undergo a £7.3m management buy-out backed by Alchemy Partners, while the fund management division will be sold in a separate deal.... [more]

Viridian is to sell the Moyle electricity interconnector between Northern Ireland and Scotland to Moyle Holdings for £122m.... [more]

Oxford Glycosciences has recommended that shareholders accept a £101m takeover offer from Celltech.... [more]

PPL Therapeutics is to sell its xenograft and stem cell activities to a newly-formed US company called Regenecor Holdings, in which PPL will hold an equity stake.... [more]

Propan Homes has acquired Honeygrove Holdings, the housebuilder with operations in Kent and Sussex, for £2m, and the enlarged group will change its name to Honeygrove Group.... [more]

Box Carton, the West Bromwich-based packaging company, has been bought out of receivership by a management team, saving 65 jobs.... [more]

RGIT Montrose, the provider of energy consultancy and training services with 170 staff, has undergone a £10m management buy-out backed by 3i... [more]

Fitness First, the operator of 346 fitness clubs, is to undergo a £204m management buy-out backed by Cinven, and 40 new clubs are expected to open in the coming year.... [more]

InTechnology has acquired Allasso, the German distributor of IT security products,from Articon-Integralis for up to £20m.... [more]

Sweetmans, the operator of 26 shops and three bakeries across South Wales, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, and is now planning to open eight new shops over the next two years... [more]

Curtis Fine Papers has acquired two paper businesses from Klippan International of Sweden for undisclosed terms, and Klippan's Caldwells Mill plant at Inverkeithing will now focus on office paper and ... [more]

Bett is to be acquired by Gladedale of Surrey in a deal that values the Scottish housebuilder at £95m.... [more]

Retail Decisions has sold its Human Resources Technology software subsidiary to management for £0.9m.... [more]

Blick has acquired ISGUS International, the distributor of time recording and production management systems produced by ISGUS Schlenker-Grusen of Germany.... [more]

Enodis, the world's biggest catering equipment maker, which sells fryers and ovens to McDonalds, is set to announce a corporate restructuring. The chief executive has said that the company was on cou... [more]

SFI, the heavily indebted themed pubs group that owns the Slug and Lettuce chain, has been unable to find a viable buyer for its Bar Med Chain. It is understood that SFI's bankers had been pushing fo... [more]

Potential buyers have submitted initial bids for Hays logistics business. The new chief executive, Colin Matthews, said last month he intended to dismantle the business services conglomerate, as well... [more]

Invensys has completed a £1.8bn programme of disposals and has signalled that parts or all the rail systems business, with estimated sales of £380m, could be sold as further debt reduction becomes nec... [more]

Sir Ken Morrison could be forced to sell almost 80 stores if he bids for Safeway in order to satisfy competition authorities worried about local monopolies. A leading data and consulting group shows ... [more]