Orchard End Group, the Gloucestershire-based operator of eight care homes with 110 staff, has been acquired by Sovereign Capital for £12m.... [more]

Duckworth Group, the Manchester-based food flavourings company, has been acquired by Cargill of the US for about £40m.... [more]

Omnico, the Eastleigh-based chain of builders' merchants, has undergone a management buy-out from Haymills Contracting for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire the US credit card operations of Connecticut-based People's Bank for £200m.... [more]

Oldham Athletic Football Club has been bought out of administration by a group of New York-based British businessmen for £5m.... [more]

STA Travel, the travel agent aimed at students and backpackers, have appointed UBS, the investment bank, to explore a number of strategic options, including a sale. The company, which could sell for u... [more]

Nisa-Today's, a rival to Londis, the wholesale distributor, has written to Londis' shareholders, urging them to consider a merger. Dudley Ramsden, chairman of Nisa-Today's, said that his direct approa... [more]

Clubhaus, the heavily indebted golf and country clubs group, has emphasized that any potential sale of the business would be at "a significant discount " to the current share price. Clubhaus, which pu... [more]

Hot Group has acquired Netrecruit, the online recruitment company, for £0.5m.... [more]

MOS International has acquired NIM Engineering, the Newcastle-based manufacturer of lifting equipment with 40 staff, from LGH Group for £0.7m.... [more]

Brandon Hire has acquired Higgins Hire Centre, the London-based tool hire company, for £0.4m.... [more]

Aegis Group has acquired TRBI, the London-based market research company, from a US-based consortium headed by Maritz for £5.2m.... [more]

Eurocare Environmental Services, the Newcastle-based hospital waste company with 210 staff, has been acquired by Sterile Technologies of Ireland.... [more]

Kier has acquired Tudor Homes, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £15m.... [more]

Richmond Foods has acquired De Roma Ice Cream of Wigan out of administration for £3.4m.... [more]

Newsplayer Group is to acquire Betelgeuse Productions, the US-based TV production company, for £3m.... [more]

Greencore is in talks to sell its UK-based Rathbones bread business. Discussions with an unnamed bidder are believed to be at an advanced stage with the business thought to be worth about £10m. The bu... [more]

Dana Petroleum and Venture Production are in talks over a potential merger to create the UK’s third largest exploration company with a stock market value of some £365 million. A spokesman for Dana con... [more]

Campus Media is to acquire The Campus Marketing Company, the organiser of student events and fairs, for up to £0.3m.... [more]

Candover Investments has sold Clondalkin, the Irish packaging company with operations across the UK, US and Europe, to US-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus for £430m.... [more]