Berkeley Burke has acquired Sheldon Monk, the London-based insurance broker with ten staff... [more]

Capital Incentives, the Chester-based supplier of staff reward schemes and gift vouchers with 100 staff, is to be acquired by Accor of France for £17m... [more]

BAe Systems is to acquire Alvis, the tank manufacturer, for £335m, having beaten a rival bid from General Dynamics... [more]

Sovereign Capital has completed the £22m institutional buy-out of Herts Care Group, the provider of crisis care homes for children and young people... [more]

Sunwin Motor Group is to acquire seven car dealerships from the Ilkeston Co-op Group for undisclosed terms... [more]

Stewarts, the Edinburgh-based print firm with 80 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms... [more]

Bowater Building Products, the supplier of doors and windows, has undergone a £52m management buy-out backed by 3i... [more]

Patricia Driscoll, the new CE of Northern Foods, has begun a strategic review of its businesses that could result in non-core divisions being sold off. Last year the company lost a lucrative contract ... [more]

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the Easygroup empire, has confirmed he is closing his flagship internet café in London just five years after launching the business. He has hoisted the For Sale sign o... [more]

Scottish Power has bought the 800MW Damhead Creek power station in Kent from the creditors of Entergy for £318m... [more]

Donegal Creameries is to merge its Carbury Mushrooms business with Monaghan Middlebrook, creating Europe's largest mushroom supplier... [more]

Reed Elsevier is to acquire Saxon Publishers, the US publisher of instructional materials, in order to expand its Harcourt Education division... [more]

Avingtrans has acquired Crown, the Bristol-based manufacturer of stands for roadside cameras, for £1.6m... [more]

Peacocks has acquired The Fragrance Shop, the Liverpool-based operator of 29 perfume shops, for up to £15m... [more]

Homeserve has acquired the house builder policy business of Principal Choice Limited and Principal Marketing & Insurance Services for up to £2m... [more]

Pilkington's Tiles has sold all its operating businesses, including the Pilkington's and Quiligotti brands and the 30-acre Corfe Mullen quarry, to a new company called Surface Coatings for £3.1m... [more]

Halma is to acquire Ocean Optics, the US supplier of optical sensing systems, for an initial £14m... [more]

Tomkins has sold Mayfran International, the US-based manufacturer of material handling equipment, to a US private equity fund... [more]

White Young Green has acquired Hawthorne Kamm, the Hampshire-based town planning consultancy, for £1.5m... [more]

United Business Media is to acquire MediMedia's drug information business in continental Europe and Asia for £190m, including trade press, patient education and pharma marketing operations... [more]