Brambles Industries has sold the Serviceteam repair and maintenance business of its Cleanaway waste management division to AWG Facilities Services for an initial £7.6m.... [more]

Tenon has sold its Tenon Livingstone Guarantee corporate finance business to eight partners in the Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham offices for undisclosed terms.... [more]

McCormick Macnaughton has acquired the Northern Ireland construction equipment rental business of Hewden Stuart.... [more]

Consort Resources, the North Sea gas business, has abandoned plans of a flotation following tough market conditions. The company has decided to sell the business instead and a formal auction will star... [more]

Express Dairies has agreed terms for a merger with the UK division of Arla Foods, which could lead to annual cost savings of more than £20m.... [more]

Watermark Group is to acquire M'n'H Recycling, the Sussex-based recycler of airline amenity and other travel products, for up to £1.3m.... [more]

Strathclyde Homes has bought Novaside Timber Frames out of receivership for an estimated £1m, securing the future of 25 jobs in Cumbernauld.... [more]

Electronic Packaging Systems of Braintree has been bought out of receivership by an undisclosed buyer, securing the future of about 150 jobs.... [more]

Lastminute.com has acquired Holiday Autos, the car rental broker, for £40m.... [more]

Kroll, the Administrators appointed to Affinity Wireless, the main trading business of Affinity Internet Holdings, said they expect to sell the business. Affinity Wireless, which is profitable, sells ... [more]

Cable and Wireless have reached agreement over their outstanding tax payments which now allows them to look at the restructuring of the group. Analysts have said that the next step is to appoint a ne... [more]

Itouch is acquire Movilisto, the provider of mobile phone services in Spain and Portugal, for an initial £24m.... [more]

GUS has announced a £70m deal to take full control of Scorex, the Bradford-based credit solutions company, in order to expand its Experian business.... [more]

Clarity Commerce Solutions is to acquire Romulus Enterprises, the Edinburgh-based supplier of business intelligence analytic software, for up to £5m.... [more]

ML Laboratories is to sell its Icodextrin glucose polymer manufacturing business in Liverpool to Baxter Healthcare for £6.5m.... [more]

Alpha Newspaper Group of Dungannon has merged with the Northern Newspaper Group of Coleraine, creating a combined newspaper publishing company called Northern Alpha.... [more]

MEB Contracting of Birmingham has undergone a management buy-out from Midlands Electricity for undisclosed terms, creating a new company with 70 staff called Midlands Electrical Services.... [more]

RMC, the worlds largest ready mix concrete maker, has declined to indicate if it was selling its 62.5% stake in Readymix, a Dublin listed affiliate.... [more]

Royal and Sun Alliance the struggling life assurer is having difficulty selling Britains second largest group of estate agents. The 360 strong chain includes names such as Fox and Sons and Barnard Ma... [more]

Zenith Entertainment, the TV production company, is to undergo a management buy-out backed by private equity firm ProVen.... [more]