The founder of the drain-cleaning service Dyno is threatening to pull the sale and subsequent float of his business because the broker can raise only 98 per cent of the £60.5 million asking price. It ... [more]

Amec has acquired Generale Maintenance Services, the French maintenance and mechanical engineering company with 40 staff, for £0.3m... [more]

Dairy Farmers of Britain is to acquire Associated Co-Operative Creameries, which has 3,500 staff at sites in Whitby, Cardiff, Llangadog, Llandrynog, Portsmouth, Cricket St Thomas and Nantwich, for £75... [more]

Chorus, the Barnet-based fit-out company with 60 staff and annual turnover of £30m, has been acquired by Byrne Group of Ireland... [more]

Homestyle is to sell its Bensons Beds business after annual losses widened to £107.8 million from £9.8 million. The home furnishings retailer, which also sold its textiles chain in May, said it was se... [more]

Occam Direct Marketing, the Bath-based provider of data management services with 80 staff, has undergone a £12m management buy-out backed by ISIS Equity Partners... [more]

Torex Retail is to acquire KPOS Computer Systems, the distributor of point-of-sale software, for £8.7m... [more]

Supporta is to acquire Quality Care, the care provider, for £3.3m, and Parys Snowdon, the provider of back office services to the NHS, for £1.6m... [more]

Skipton Building Society has sold Industrial Equipment Finance to Hitachi Capital for £4.4m... [more]

Beswick Paper, the Oldbury-based paper merchant with 150 staff at branches in Birmingham, Northampton, Cheltenham, Leicester, Crewe, Hertford and Newport, has undergone a management buy-in for undiscl... [more]

QinetiQ is set to acquire HVR Consulting Services, the Hampshire-based defence consultancy, for up to £13m... [more]

Pipex Communications is to acquire Accent UK, the internet service provider that trades as Nildram, for £13m... [more]

Synstar, the IT services company, is to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard for £163m... [more]

Cabouchon is to sell its jewellery operations to management and acquire motion picture company Seven Arts Filmed Entertainment in a £4.8m reverse takeover... [more]

Invensys is to sell APV Baker Goldsboro, its US bakery equipment division, to Turkington Industries for £5.4m... [more]

Emap has acquired the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival from WJB Chiltern Trust for £52m... [more]

American Golf Corporation, the world’s biggest golf course operator, has put its 23 clubs in the UK up for sale. The group is believed to have appointed Close Brothers Corporate Finance to handle the ... [more]

Britain's second-biggest phone operator, Cable & Wireless plc, is considering selling its entire UK property portfolio. The London-based corporation has 180 freehold and leasehold properties in the UK... [more]

The disagreement between Ennstone and two of its shareholders intensified when North Atlantic value, the shareholder activist group, called on management to consider putting the company up for sale. N... [more]

Rentokil Initial, the pest control to contract cleaning group which is undergoing an internal review following the departure of its chairman and chief executive, will receive offers for its conference... [more]