Blair Plant & Civil Engineers of Norfolk has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing the future of 30 jobs... [more]

Latimer Trend, the Plymouth-based printing company, has undergone a management buy-out... [more]

Lark Construction, the Redruth-based social housing contractor with 78 staff, has been bought out of receivership by Rok for undisclosed terms... [more]

Anglo American is to acquire Johnston Group, the aggregates and engineering company, for £53m, having beaten a rival offer from Ennstone... [more]

Kingfield Health, the country's second-largest wholesaler of office products, has put itself on the market. The company, who are being advised by the French bank SocGen, has annual sales of more than ... [more]

Investment bank NM Rothschild is to open the books of UK nursing home operator Westminster Healthcare to would-be suitors in a sale that could raise over £400m. The sale is expected to attract interes... [more]

One of Scotland’s most famous distillers, the West Lothian-based Glenmorangie group, has been put up for sale. The 300-year-old company, which employs almost 400 staff, has been put on the market by i... [more]

London Scottish Bank has acquired certain assets of Morse's, the personal loans company with 500 staff, for an initial £10m... [more]

Laird has acquired Centurion Wireless Technologies, the US supplier of mobile handset antennae, for £107m, while its Laird Plastics division has been sold to Blackfriars Corporation for £36m... [more]

CI Traders is to acquire ComProp for £51m, in order to expand its property development operations on the Channel Islands... [more]

ARM Holdings is to acquire Artisan Components, the US technology company, for £502m... [more]

Future Network has acquired the PC Zone and Computer & Video Games magazines from Dennis Publishing for £2.5m... [more]

Eclipse Scientific, the food testing company with 200 staff at eight laboratories, has undergone a management buy-out from Swan Group for undisclosed terms... [more]

American Golf Discount Centre has been acquired by a management buy-in team for about £40m, and now plans to expand its chain of 61 stores with about 25 new sites over the next five years... [more]

Tesco has sold the Dillons chain of 181 newsagent shops to TM Retail for undisclosed terms... [more]

Video Island is to merge with Screen Select to create the country's largest online DVD rental company... [more]

Fuji Seal Europe, the shrink-wrap packaging company, is doubling its manufacturing, printing and warehousing facilities at the Gillingham Business Park in Kent, with the creation of 70 jobs over the n... [more]

Countrywide has acquired Freeman Forman, the chain of 14 estate agency branches in East Sussex and Kent... [more]

Multifabs, the Aberdeen-based supplier of survival wear with 115 staff, has been acquired by CHC Helicopters of Canada for £7.2m... [more]

Wayne County and Goldsboro have agreed to spend $300,000, in efforts to entice a U.K. company to buy Goldsboro’s APV Baker plant in North Carolina, USA. The plant has been up for sale for the last two... [more]