Radstone Technology has acquired Octec, the Bracknell-based supplier of image processors and video trackers, for £14m... [more]

RPS has acquired Cambrian, the provider of oil industry asset evaluation services with 35 staff, for up to £2.9m... [more]

Claro Precision Engineering of Knaresborough has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, and the 50-strong workforce is expected to expand... [more]

The Safeway store in Kilwinning town centre, Ayrshire, is being sold by its new owners. Bradford-based Morrison's. who spent £3b swallowing up the nationwide chain of Safeways, have spent the past mon... [more]

3i has said it is in discussions with leading asset management groups to sell its quoted fund management activities, which are considered non-core. The FTSE 100 private equity and venture capital grou... [more]

Marconi is to sell Outside Plant & Power, its US plant and power systems business, to Emerson Electric for £221m... [more]

Napier Brown Foods has acquired James Budgett Sugars, the sugar processing company, from ED&F Man and Greencore for £17m... [more]

Tadpole Technology is to acquire Stream Theory, the US supplier of enterprise network software, for an initial £13m... [more]

Laird Group has acquired Lindman Group, the supplier of composite entrance doors, for an initial £3.2m... [more]

Homeserve is to sell Mail Solutions, the provider of print, envelope manufacture and mail fulfilment services, to Longmax Industries for £7.4m... [more]

DCC is to acquire Bottle Green, the Leeds-based wine supplier, for an initial £13m... [more]

Minerva Laboratories, the Cardiff-based supplier of dental equipment with 58 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms... [more]

Reg Vardy has acquired H Tones Vauxhall, the Hartlepool-based car dealership, for £3m... [more]

BNB Resources has acquired TCS Recruitment, the recruitment solutions company with offices in London, Manchester and Bristol, for an initial £4.1m... [more]

Eurocopy, the Yorkshire-based photocopier supplier, is to undergo a management buy-out for £18m... [more]

Sytner has acquired Porsche, Ferrari and Maserati car dealerships in Edinburgh from Glenvarigill for undisclosed terms, leaving Glenvarigill to focus on new Audi dealerships in Edinburgh and Stirling... [more]

Pleasurewood Hills, the leisure park near Lowestoft with 26 permanent and 200 seasonal staff, has been acquired by Grevin & Cie of France for undisclosed terms... [more]

Rand Group has acquired the road planing operations of Associated Asphalt for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 32 Oxfordshire-based staff... [more]

Iris Software, the supplier of accountancy software, has undergone a £102m management buy-out backed by HgCapital... [more]

Doughty Hanson is to sell the design and manufacturing division of Dunlop Standard Aerospace to Meggitt for £408m, while the engine repair operations are being sold to US buy-out firm Carlyle... [more]