Chelsea football club has received a £50m bid from an American pension fund, having already rejected one approach in December.... [more]

Friends Reunited may be sold off for as much as £25m by its founders. The website has attracted 8 million members in search of old school friends. BDO Stoy Hayward is reviewing options for the busines... [more]

Oshkosh is to create up to 180 jobs at its factory in Llantrisant, having won a £160m Ministry of Defence contract to produce wheeled tankers.... [more]

Glenmuir, the leisurewear company with 80 staff and turnover of £8m, has been acquired by Ruia Group of Bolton for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Edotech has acquired Cominformatic, the Swiss printing and data management company with 110 staff, for £6.5m.... [more]

AEA Technology has acquired Lexware International, the East Kilbride-based provider of environment management services with 30 staff.... [more]

Waste Recycling Group, Britain's biggest waste disposal company, has disclosed that it is in talks that could lead to a bid. Deutsche Bank and Marshall Securities are advising the group, which operate... [more]

Rexam has acquired Luner Glas, the German glass container manufacturer, for £33m, and has raised £86m in a share placing to fund further acquisitions.... [more]

SectorGuard has acquired Gainsborough Events & Security Services of Essex for an initial £0.1m.... [more]

Cobham is spending £50m on three acquisitions, including the Blackburn-based land platforms communications division of BAe Systems, SAAB's Applied Composites Division and Drager Aerospace of Germany.... [more]

Hacas Group is to acquire Stratford Development Partnership, the provider of regeneration consultancy services to London local authorities, which will involve the transfer of 58 staff.... [more]

Sage has acquired Concept Group, the French financial software company, for up to £6.5m.... [more]

Media Square has expanded its marketing services business with the acquisition of FI Direct, FI System, e-principals and Fourninety, gaining 61 additional staff in Leeds and Manchester.... [more]

Enact Pharma has acquired De Montfort Biopharma of Leicestershire for an initial £0.5m.... [more]

Ferraris has acquired Del Mar Medical, the US supplier of heart monitors, for £6.2m.... [more]

Crown Sports, the golf and health clubs operator, is to be acquired by Bennelong UK, a bid vehicle formed by its executive chairman, for £20m.... [more]

Punch Taverns has acquired Conquest Inns, the operator of 61 pubs, for £26m, taking its estate to 4,484 sites.... [more]

Spirax-Sarco Engineering has acquired AMPE, the Italian manufacturer of pneumatic and electronic instrumentation, for about £1m.... [more]

Tom Cobleigh has sold its chain of 28 tenanted pubs to Daniel Thwaites for £12m.... [more]

Wax Lyrical, the candle retailer with sales of £11m, has been put into receivership by its US owner Blyth Inc. The 35 stores in the UK and Ireland are to be reviewed by Grant Thornton.... [more]