Smart & Cook has acquired the insurance broking business of Adams Financial Services of Lincolnshire.... [more]

Kingsbridge Holdings has sold Benson McGarvey and its Shakeit subsidiary to management for an initial £0.2m.... [more]

Forever Broadcasting has sold the Juice Liverpool radio station to Absolute Radio for £3.1m.... [more]

Dairy Crest has sold its Kidlington-based chilled juice business to Princes for about £11m.... [more]

SCI Entertainment has bought the Pivotal Games computer games subsidiary of Kaboom Studios out of receivership for £2.4m.... [more]

Care UK has acquired a 75% stake in Corvedale Holdings, the Shropshire-based provider of residential and educational children's care services, for up to £6m.... [more]

Roxspur is to acquire telecoms services company Cellular Holdings in a reverse takeover, and the new group will be called The Telecommunications Group.... [more]

Sovereign Capital has acquired Laurel Management Services, the operator of 29 funeral homes in the Midlands, Kent, Hampshire and Hertfordshire, for £21m.... [more]

High-Point Rendel, the construction engineering consulting group, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Epyx has acquired Oasis Global Systems, the developer of IT solutions for the automotive sector, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Patrick Kron, The chairman and chief executive of troubled French engineering group Alstom, has indicated that he aims to plans to sell the company's marine division, which makes luxury cruise ships s... [more]

A takeover battle has broken out for music publisher Boosey & Hawkes. Two rival firms - private equity firm HgCapital and rival publisher Music Sales Ltd - have said they are working on offers which t... [more]

Nationwide Mutual Insurance, the American financial services group, is planning a merger or partial sale of Gartmore, the British fund manager which it bought for £1.03bn three years ago.... [more]

Industry pundits expect Northern Foods to be pared down over the next 18 to 24 months to three core divisions - chilled ready meals, frozen food and its Foxes biscuit business. Everything else, inclu... [more]

As expected, the competition commission has allowed William Morrison Supermarkets Plc alone to bid for Safeway, which put itself up for sale in January this year. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia... [more]

WestLB has hired Goldman Sachs to seek a buyer for the television rental business Box Clever as the German bank forced the company's service businesses into administration. Price Waterhouse Coopers wa... [more]

Dreaming of a happy ending, Walt Disney has hired Goldman Sachs to help it sell its troubled chain of Disney Stores in North America and Europe for up to $500m (£310m). The company is hoping to sell t... [more]

John Laing has sold its John Laing Partnership homes businesses to management for £16m, and has also announced that it has been appointed preferred bidder for the Greater Nottingham NHS LIFT project.... [more]

Dipford is to acquire Dowling Kerr, the national business transfer agency with offices in Holmfirth and Luton, for up to £2.1m.... [more]

Ultra Electronics is to acquire the assets of Ocean Systems, the US-based developer of radio frequency devices, from BAe Systems for £6m.... [more]