3i, the UK's biggest venture capital company, has put the Early Learning Centre and Allsports up for sale in order to scale back its investments in the retail sector. Early Learning Centre is expected... [more]

Tribal Group has acquired Succession Planning Associates, the executive search company, for up to £3.1m... [more]

Spaldings, the Lincoln-based wholesaler of agricultural machinery parts with 140 staff, has undergone a £10m management buy-out from Dutch company Netagco, backed by 3i... [more]

Tesco has acquired Adminstore, the operator of 45 Cullens, Europa and Harts grocery stores in London, for £54m, and the sites will be rebranded as Tesco Express... [more]

Wookey Hole Caves, the 100-acre tourist attraction in the Mendips, has been acquired by a former director of Cottle's Circus for undisclosed terms... [more]

Up to 50 jobs are under threat after a Black Country plastics moulding company collapsed into administration.Administrators have been appointed to Hemo Engineering Plastics, a 75-year-old company whi... [more]

Golf's governing body has hived off its commercial activities into a new company structure in the biggest shake-up in 250 years.But the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews played down any suggest... [more]

European Golf Brands, the Kent-based supplier of electric golf trolleys, is to undergo a £26m management buy-out... [more]

Burrows & Close, the Nottingham-based chain of 15 retail pharmacies with more than 100 staff, has undergone a management buy-out... [more]

Bulwell Precision Engineering, the Pinxton-based manufacturer of automotive components, has been acquired by the newly-formed Nasmyth Group, and the workforce is expected to grow by more than 10% this... [more]

Rentokil has sold its industrial and commercial roofing business, which includes seven offices, to a management buy-out and the business will be renamed Four Seasons Roofing... [more]

Watermark has acquired Air Fayre, the supplier of meals to airlines at Heathrow and Birmingham, for £17m... [more]

Skandia's new chief executive has ruled out the sale of any more of the Swedish financial services group's international units, and said he would like to secure a strong strategic investor. Mr Anderss... [more]

Morgan Stanley and Simon Glick have said that they would sell or refinance buildings at Canary Wharf if their £1.55bn bid to buy the development succeeded.... [more]

Kidde has acquired the fire-fighting chemicals division of Croda International, which employs 65 people at sites in Kirkby and France, for £4.4m... [more]

Peterhouse has sold Anglair, its compressed air and pneumatics engineering operation, to Airchannel for £1.5m... [more]

White Young Green has acquired Cetec Consultancy, the Southampton-based provider of structural engineering and project management services, for £0.7m... [more]

Matrix Healthcare is to acquire nursing home operators Newsham of Gloucester and Woodland of Torquay for a total of £2.5m... [more]

XKO has acquired a computer disaster recovery business from Datacentre of the Isle of Man for £1.7m... [more]

Montgomery Litho has bought the sealing wax division of Edinburgh-based Waterstons MacKenzie Storrie out of receivership... [more]