CSS Stellar has sold ARB, the audio-visual equipment hire company with 30 staff, back to its founder for a nominal sum, and the business will be relocated from Buckingham to Banbury... [more]

White Young Green has acquired Denis Rooney Associates, the Irish project management company with more than 40 staff in Dublin and Belfast, for £4.3m... [more]

Inter Link Foods has acquired Hoppers, the Kent-based bakery with 110 staff, for £5m... [more]

Chesterton, the commercial property company, is to be acquired by Resurge, an Aim-listed company that is exercising its right to acquire a stake from Phoenix Acquisitions... [more]

Expro has acquired a wireless telemetry business from Cobham for £3.2m and a US-based well tractoring business from Smartract for an initial £0.7m... [more]

Jewson has acquired Healey-Ward, the Huddersfield-based builders' merchant with 35 staff... [more]

QMisys has acquired IQ Financial Systems, the US banking software developer, from Deutsche Bank for £24m... [more]

Crystal Drinks, the West Yorkshire-based soft drinks manufacturer with 120 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Epic Reconstruction... [more]

One of the UK’s new directory enquiry companies today confirmed it had put itself up for sale. Directory Enquiries UK, which operates the 118 800 number, said the decision was made in order to “pursue... [more]

De Vere is selling four hotels with a book value of about 40m. The Hotel group said that the provincial UK sites, two from its De Vere brand and two from its Village brand no longer fitted with its c... [more]

Real Affinity is to acquire Navigator, the sports marketing company, for an initial £0.6m, and £1.3m will be raised in a share issue to fund additional staff and investment in IT equipment.... [more]

SP Holdings has acquired Clever TV, the database and online relationship marketing company.... [more]

Real Affinity is to acquire Navigator, the sports marketing company, for an initial £0.6m, and £1.3m will be raised in a share issue to fund additional staff and investment in IT equipment... [more]

SP Holdings has acquired Clever TV, the database and online relationship marketing company... [more]

Rhodia, the French chemicals giant, is to sell three business units as part of a £490m disposal programme aimed at raising fresh cash. In December last year, Rhodia announced a financial restructuring... [more]

Hot Group has acquired The Graduate, the graduate recruitment company, for an initial £0.3m... [more]

MARCONI Corporation, the struggling telecoms equipment maker, today agreed the sale of its North American Access business for £135 million cash to Advanced Fibre Communications. The company said it ho... [more]

Charles Taylor Consulting has acquired Interprogetti, the Italian engineering design company, through its joint venture with RINA for £0.9m.... [more]

Elan is to sell its European sales and marketing business to Medeus UK, a new pharmaceutical company backed by Apax Partners, for £66m.... [more]

Specialist Computer Holdings has acquired Pluz of the Netherlands for undisclosed terms, creating an enlarged computer distribution business called ETC Pluz with 160 staff.... [more]