Acquisition Resources

Domino Printing Sciences is to acquire Purex International, the Rotherham-based supplier of fume extraction equipment and filters, for an initial £1.5m... [more]

VT Group is to sell some of the operations of its VT Engine Controls subsidiary to Sareline for up to £2.5m... [more]

Media Square has acquired IAS Group, the Manchester-based branding and marketing agency with 42 staff... [more]

Home Entertainment Corporation has acquired In-Store Movies, the supplier of video and DVD rental products to convenience stores... [more]

Mayflower's administrators have sold Mayflower Vehicle Systems to Stadco for £20m, securing the future of 600 staff at the Coventry-based vehicle panels business... [more]

Inchcape has acquired Southwell Motor, the operator of five Mercedes and Smart car dealerships in the East Midlands, for £28m... [more]

National Grid Transco is to acquire Crown Castle UK, the owner of 3,500 mobile phone masts and 750 broadcasting towers, for £1.1bn... [more]

Cyberes, the Harrogate-based travel company, has been bought out of administration by the Travel Company, securing the future of 120 staff... [more]

Bentley Jennison is to merge with WBS, the accountancy firm with offices in Leeds and Harrogate, creating a combined group with 50 partners and more than 750 staff... [more]

ITE Group has acquired RAS Publishing, the publisher of fashion magazines, for £2m... [more]

Gourmet Holdings is to acquire three Bel and the Dragon country pubs and restaurants in Cookham, Windsor and Godalming for £6.3m... [more]

Crest Nicholson Marinas, the operator of marinas in Bristol, Conwy, Penarth, Tyneside and Bangor, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms... [more]

OyezStraker, the office supplies company, has been sold by Bridgepoint Capital to Hermes Private Equity for £80m... [more]

Karen Millen, the fashion retailer with about 125 stores and concessions, has been acquired by Baugur of Iceland for £120m... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Scandinavian life and pensions business to SEB Trygg of Sweden for £173m... [more]

Leading private equity groups are considering bids for Saga, the UK insurance and travel group, after it instructed UBS, the investment bank to restart the sale of floatation of the company.... [more]

OpenPSL, the distributor of computer security products with 160 staff at offices in Manchester, Leeds, Bracknell, Nottingham and Dublin, has been acquired by Bell Microproducts of the US for £20m... [more]

Medical Solutions is to sell Kinetic Imaging to Andor Technology for £0.6m, in order to focus on its core pathology services business... [more]

Nord Anglia Education has sold ten schools to Gems Education for £12m, in order to focus on the nursery sector... [more]

Serif, the Nottingham-based supplier of desktop publishing software with 270 staff, has undergone a management buy-out with the support of a £3m funding package from Bank of Scotland Corporate... [more]