The chief executive of BBC Worldwide, Rupert Gavin, has announced he is leaving the corporation to prepare a buy-out of it's commercial television, publishing and merchandise arm, should the business ... [more]

Huntsworth is to acquire Ergo Communications Services, the London-based strategic public affairs and corporate communications company, for £2m... [more]

Exeter Investment Group is to be acquired by Iimia of Bournemouth for about £19m, which will involve the transfer of 120 Exeter-based staff... [more]

Murston Plant, the Ashford-based hire company with 40 staff, has been acquired by GSE Plant... [more]

Reed Elsevier is to acquire Seisint, the US supplier of public record and risk management information, for £417m... [more]

The Unwins Wine Group Ltd have distributed an Information Memorandum to all parties who have so far shown an interest in buying the business. At this stage, the details of the memo remain confidential... [more]

Country Artists, the designer and distributor of quality giftware products with 150 staff at sites in Wellesbourne, Stratford upon Avon and the US, has undergone a management buy-out backed by ISIS Eq... [more]

Inflexion is to sell Ster Century, the operator of seven cinema sites, to a management buy-out for £32m... [more]

Johnson Matthey is to acquire Lancaster Synthesis, the organic chemicals supplier with manufacturing facilities in Morecambe and 225 staff worldwide, from Clariant for £14m... [more]

Rok Property Solutions has acquired John Dickie Construction, which operates in the central belt of Scotland, from John Dickie Group for £0.8m... [more]

Quarto has acquired Creative Publishing international, the US publisher of how-to books, for about £5m... [more]

KPMG has sold Lotus and FII, the Northampton-based shoe manufacturer, out of administration to Jacobson Group of Lancashire, securing the future of 40 jobs... [more]

Paperchase, the chain of 61 stationery stores, has been sold by Graphite Capital to Borders for £19m... [more]

Morse has acquired Diagonal, the software consultancy with offices in Farnham, Basingstoke, Leeds and Warrington, for £50m... [more]

InterContinental Hotels Group has put hotels with a book value of £512m up for sale in the latest tranche of an asset disposal programme that is expected to return more than £600m to shareholders. The... [more]

Merchant Retail Group has announced that it is selling all of its UK Joplings department stores with the loss of more than 600 jobs, to concentrate on its 100 cut-price perfume stores as well as its g... [more]

Community Broking Group has acquired Carpenter Rees Jackson, the Manchester-based financial planning practice, for £0.7m... [more]

FfastFill has acquired Future Dynamics, the software company with offices in London and Chicago and annual turnover of £2m... [more]

Reg Vardy has completed the £5m acquisition of the Renault car dealership in Leeds from Renault Retail Group... [more]

Astron has acquired the Nottingham-based print and mail division of Experian, and the 109 staff are expected to be offered relocation to other Astron sites... [more]