The property group Minerva, which was put up for sale in July, has asked 15 bidders to submit initial offers by 6th September. The bidders are thought to include Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as we... [more]

Future Network has acquired Spanish Homes Magazine for £1.5m, as part of a strategy to buy special-interest titles... [more]

Charles Stanley is to acquire Tozer Wingate, the Plymouth-based corporate benefit consultancy, for up to £1.5m... [more]

Vega Group is to acquire Anite Systems, the German software company with 60 staff, from Anite Group for £7.5m... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire Lynk Systems, the US-based merchant acquiring business, for £288m... [more]

Scotmid is to acquire Dundee-based Morning Noon & Night's 50 stores across Scotland for about £30m... [more]

Wykeham Farrance, the supplier of geotechnical equipment, has been acquired by Controls of Italy... [more]

Laird Group's chief executive Peter Hill has announced that the group is currently holding talks to sell off its plastics division: "We intend to divest it if shareholder value can be achieved. We exp... [more]

Hillarys Blinds, the made-to-measure blinds manufacturer, has been acquired by Change Capital for about £100m... [more]

Western Wines, the wine importer, has been acquired by Vincor of Canada for £135m... [more]

Aga Foodservice has acquired La Cornue, the French cooker manufacturer, from Nortek for £3.4m... [more]

Jarvis has sold its entire stake in Ultramast, the developer of mobile telephone radio masts, to Shere Group, a joint venture company formed by Babcock & Brown and four Ultramast managers, for £0.3m... [more]

Alumasc has acquired Roof-Pro, the Bedford-based building products company, for £3.7m... [more]

Brandon Hire has acquired U Hire of Merseyside and Hire-It Northern of County Durham for £0.7m and £0.2m respectively, taking its chain of tool hire outlets to 114... [more]

Speedy Hire has acquired the tool hire business of Multi Group for £7.2m, including ten tool hire depots and 23 temporary on-site facilities.... [more]

Broker Network Holdings has acquired Mid-Pennine Insurance Services for £0.3m... [more]

Matrix Communications has acquired Bedrock Networks, Norwood Adam Systems and Norwood Adam Technical Services, which will increase its annual turnover by about £9m... [more]

Hyder Consulting has raised £3.1m in a share placing to fund three acquisitions - Roberts & Partners International of Dubai, Ashact and an unnamed environmental consultancy based in the UK... [more]

Queens Moat Houses, the chain of hotels in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, is expected to be acquired by the Whitehall property fund of Goldman Sachs for about £544m... [more]

WH Smith is to sell its Hodder Headline publishing business to Hachette Livre of France for £210m, in order to focus on retail and news distribution... [more]