The property fund management business of Aberdeen Asset Management is again up for sale after talks with British Land collapsed. ... [more]

Mouchel has acquired GEL Group, the Leicestershire-based gas engineering consultancy with 60 staff, for £3m... [more]

Torex has expanded its healthcare software business with the £1.4m acquisition of the operating theatre and anaesthesia systems business of Civica... [more]

Numerica has acquired Forbes Dawson, the Manchester-based tax consultancy, for £0.7m... [more]

RAL Holdings, the operator of 135 Quicksilver amusement arcades, is to undergo a £40m management buy-out backed by PPM... [more]

Watermark Group has acquired Media on the Move, the distributor of newspapers and magazines to the airline industry... [more]

Advanced Power Components has acquired Silver Birch Marketing and GO Technology, the Cambridgeshire-based distributors of electronic components... [more]

AWG, the parent company of Anglian Water, has yet to find a buyer for Anglian Water International. One of its executive directors is understood to have put an MBO proposal to the company for its prof... [more]

Travis Perkins has acquired Jayhard, the Southampton-based chain of 53 plumbing and heating branches, for £26m... [more]

Cooksons shares have risen as the ceramics and electronics group reduced first half losses and signalled it was prepared to sell its heavily lossmaking Speedline business. Speedline, makes equipment ... [more]

Trinity Mirror is under pressure to carry out a radical overhaul of its operations. This could be the sale of its national newspaper the Daily Mirror meaning it could concentrate on its 260 regional ... [more]

Global Group, the meat company that last year lost a quarter of its sales when Burger King switched suppliers, is to sell its meat trading division and move to Aim. In April it reported profits of £7... [more]

Centrica has agreed to sell the Goldfish credit card and personal loans business to Lloyds TSB in a £112m deal... [more]

Brit Insurance has sold Peoples Choice Europe, the telesales personal lines insurance broker, to Hastings Insurance Services for £7.2m... [more]

Ultra Electronics is to acquire Radamec Defence Systems, the Surrey-based supplier of surveillance and weapon control systems with about 70 staff, for £6m... [more]