Glisten has acquired F Fravigar, the Skegness-based confectionery manufacturer with about 100 staff, for £6.5m... [more]

Multigraphics, the Halifax-based printing company, has undergone a £10m management buy-out backed by 3i... [more]

Technology Services Group has acquired CPA Systems, the Teesside-based IT services company, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Alderley has acquired Specialised Management Services, the Great Yarmouth-based supplier of control panels for hydraulics and wellheads with 50 staff, in a £7m deal backed by Bank of Scotland Corporat... [more]

The Platform Company has acquired Meek Group, the Bristol-based powered access hirer with three branches, out of administration for undisclosed terms... [more]

McNicholas is in negotiations to acquire Lawrence, the Bath-based civils and utilities contractor with 600 staff, from Bristol Water for an estimated £7m... [more]

Lastminute.com has acquired First Option, the hotel booking agency with 200 staff at 21 retail desks and a Stockport call centre, for £12m... [more]

Leo Noe, the entrepreneur, is expected to withdraw his £440m offer to buy Derwent Valley, the quoted property company. Elsewhere in the sector, Elliot Bernerd, chairman of Chelsfield, will continue t... [more]

Wintrust, one of the city's remaining small listed merchant banks, might soon lose its independence after it appointed advisors to consider a number of approaches. The bank specialises in loans rangi... [more]

Mentmore, the self-storage provider, said it had received "a number of approaches" from potential buyers. The group, which lets out 2.8m sq ft of personal and records storage space, said in December ... [more]

Britain's second largest insurer, the Prudential, is in talks over the possible sale of its majority shareholding in loss-making online bank Egg."Such discussions are at a preliminary stage and there ... [more]

Rotork has acquired Deanquip Valve Automation, the Australian valve actuator distributor, for £0.8m... [more]

Aggregate Industries has acquired Aggregate Supplies, the Wembley-based operator of ten bagging plants for construction materials, for £7.3m, as well as a 51% stake in Concrete Developments, the floor... [more]

Dennis Eagle, the manufacturer of refuse collection vehicles with 580 staff at factories in Warwick and Blackpool, has been sold by Bridgepoint to ABN AMRO Capital for £51m... [more]

Blagden Packaging, the drum manufacturer with 19 facilities in eight countries, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Alchemy for undisclosed terms... [more]

Hawksmere, the London-based provider of training seminars with 60 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by ISIS Equity Partners for undisclosed terms... [more]

Ellis Steel has acquired McArthur Faull, the Swansea-based steel supplier, creating a new group called Ellis Faull Steel Stockholders & Processors... [more]

Birmingham Plastics has been sold out of receivership by PKF to a sister company of HemoGroup, saving 21 of the 49 jobs... [more]

Warmseal Windows, the Tyneside-based double glazing company with 150 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers for undisclosed terms... [more]

LEC Marine, the Lowestoft-based electrical installation company, has been bought out of administration by a team of directors, saving 120 jobs... [more]