PZ Cussons has acquired the Charles Worthington hair care business for an initial £25m... [more]

European Motor Holdings has sold Taunton Trucks, its DAF and LDV trucks business, to Wessex GS for £0.6m... [more]

Centrica has agreed to sell the AA motoring organisation to a company formed by CVC Capital Partners and Permira Advisers for £1.7bn... [more]

IP2IPO has acquired Top Technology Ventures, the investment manager of early stage technology venture capital funds, for up to £2.4m... [more]

Broker Network has acquired AJ Barter Insurance Brokers of Somerset for up to £0.5m... [more]

Smiths Medical has acquired DHD Healthcare, the US respiratory care device company with 118 staff, for £30m... [more]

Business Serve has acquired KB Media, the broadband internet provider, for £0.4m... [more]

International Energy Group has acquired a portfolio of gas transportation assets from Mowlem Energy for £1.9m... [more]

Macrae Food Group, the seafood company with 1,300 staff in Fraserburgh, Inverness, Edinburgh, Hull and Pewsey, has been acquired by Young's of Grimsby... [more]

Newmark Security is to acquire Custom Micro Products, the Poole-based supplier of microprocessor-based products, for up to £2.8m... [more]

RPS has acquired Flow Control Water Conservation, the Liverpool-based water resource consultancy with 300 staff, and the business will relocate to RPS Water Services in Warrington... [more]

Atlantic Technology, the Crumlin-based semiconductor assembly and testing facility with 250 staff, has been acquired by Unisem Berhad of Malaysia in a £16m deal... [more]

Heating Components & Equipment, the supplier of central heating components with 24 staff at branches in Gateshead and Glasgow, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Quantum Corporate Finance... [more]

Glencoe Ski Centre has been bought out of receivership by a group of Glasgow-based businessmen for undisclosed terms... [more]

Nestle Rowntree is to sell its cocoa processing operations in York to Cargill, which will involve the transfer of 27 jobs... [more]

Havelock Europa has acquired TeacherBoards, the Skipton-based manufacturer of display boards, for up to £6.1m... [more]

Lastminute.com has acquired Lastminute.de, the German online travel company, for £31m... [more]

Singer & Friedlander is to acquire Wintrust, the London-based merchant bank, for £53m... [more]

IMI is to acquire Fluid Automation Systems, the Swiss manufacturer of valves, for £20m... [more]

RSM Robson Rhodes has sold First Leisure Corporation out of receivership to a management buy-out, and the business will now be renamed The Nightclub Company... [more]