Betinternet.com has acquired Oddsalive, the Malta-based online betting company, for a nominal sum.... [more]

SectorGuard has acquired the manned guarding business of London Alliance Contract Services for an initial £0.5m.... [more]

Bradford & Bingley is to acquire Holden Meehan, the independent financial adviser, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Selfridges, the upmarket department store chain, has instructed Merrill Lynch, the investment bank, to start a formal auction process for the group. An offer has been received by Tom Hunter, the Scot... [more]

Scottish & Newcastle is to acquire HP Bulmer, the Hereford-based cider maker, for £278m, and has also announced the acquisition of Portuguese brewer Central de Cervejas.... [more]

WPP has acquired Sadek Wynberg Research for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Millward Brown market research division.... [more]

Wolseley is planning to acquire Pinault Bois & Materiaux, the French distributor of building materials with 5,300 staff, for £390m.... [more]

Strainstall Group has acquired Prolec, the Dorset-based manufacturer of safety equipment with 24 staff.... [more]

Wolseley, the heating and plumbing supplier, and CRH the Dublin-based building materials group, are eyeing the lumber business of Pinault Printemps-Redoute of France. They are competing against fina... [more]

Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Berlin Verlag Beteiligungsgesellschaft and BvT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlags, in order to expand its literary publishing business in Germany.... [more]

SDL has acquired Lomac, the provider of Eastern European localisation and translation services, for up to £1.2m.... [more]

Valpak has sold its commercial glass collection business to Berryman, including the assets, trade and goodwill of the Recycle-more-glass scheme.... [more]

Linpac, the privately-held packaging group, has been put up for sale by the family that owns it for an asking price of some £1bn. Michael Cornish, chairman and son of the companies founder, Evan, is ... [more]

Brit Insurance is to acquire PRI Group, the professional indemnity insurer, for £156m.... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire Port Financial Corporation, the US holding company for the Cambridgeport savings bank, for £180m.... [more]

Planit Holdings is to acquire Radan Computational, the Bath-based supplier of CAD software for the sheet metal industry, for £3.6m.... [more]

Photo-Me International has acquired the Central Lab Equipment division of the former Gretag Imaging company in Switzerland for £1.4m, in order to expand its photo laboratories business.... [more]

Cordell Group has acquired Structures (Teesside), the steel-working company with 30 staff, and 30 additional jobs will be created within two years.... [more]

Parity Group has acquired the training facilitation business of Technical Training of Edinburgh for £0.7m.... [more]

Lair International of Bridgend has acquired Talisman, the Essex-based manufacturer of nylon handcuffs, for £1m.... [more]