Chime Communications has acquired TTA Public Relations, the property marketing company, for an initial £0.6m.... [more]

Dicom Group has acquired Perdata, the Spanish provider of electronic document capture services, for £0.5m.... [more]

Cytomyx Holdings is to raise £2m in a share placing to help fund the acquisition of Clinomics Biosciences of the US.... [more]

Netstore has acquired the UK-based IT solutions business of EMS Global Holdings of New Zealand, for an initial £0.25m.... [more]

KPMG has sold the Loks Plasma stainless steel profiling division of Vernon Stainless out of administration to Metals UK Group of Bolton, securing 35 jobs.... [more]

Isoclad, the North Shields-based manufacturer of panels for the refrigeration and other industries, has been bought out of receivership by a management team backed by One NorthEast, securing 23 jobs.... [more]

Peter Black Healthcare, the Swadlincote-based manufacturer of vitamin supplements and herbal remedies with 240 staff, has been acquired by Perrigo of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Edison International, the US utility company, has put up for sale some of Britain's biggest power generating assets, including two hydro-electric power stations in Wales, as part of a £1.5bn disposal ... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance is reportedly very near to making a deal to sell its U.K. life insurance business, which is valued at around £600 million. According to an article in the Sunday Times, as distribu... [more]

Morrisons has announced a £3bn agreed takeover offer for Safeway, which will create a nationwide chain of 552 supermarkets and lead to the closure of Safeway's head office in Hayes with the loss of ab... [more]

Chime Communications has acquired TTA Public Relations, the property marketing company, for an initial £0.6m.... [more]

Dicom Group has acquired Perdata, the Spanish provider of electronic document capture services, for £0.5m.... [more]

Cytomyx Holdings is to raise £2m in a share placing to help fund the acquisition of Clinomics Biosciences of the US.... [more]

Netstore has acquired the UK-based IT solutions business of EMS Global Holdings of New Zealand, for an initial £0.25m.... [more]

KPMG has sold the Loks Plasma stainless steel profiling division of Vernon Stainless out of administration to Metals UK Group of Bolton, securing 35 jobs.... [more]

Isoclad, the North Shields-based manufacturer of panels for the refrigeration and other industries, has been bought out of receivership by a management team backed by One NorthEast, securing 23 jobs.... [more]

Peter Black Healthcare, the Swadlincote-based manufacturer of vitamin supplements and herbal remedies with 240 staff, has been acquired by Perrigo of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE has secretly appointed Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers to sell its UK life business, which is worth at least £600m. The two advisers have set a deadline of tomorrow for indicati... [more]

Matalan has had a poor run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales (which exclude the effect of new store openings) in the latter half of November were down by more than 10 per cent on the previous year.... [more]

ABBEY National Asset Managers, which may go on the auction block in 2004, would fetch a price of between £200 million and £300m, City sources have said. One leading fund management analyst said: "Abbe... [more]