Coral has acquired Reg Boyle, the chain of 23 Teesside-based betting shops with 100 staff, and £2m will be spent refurbishing the sites... [more]

Cunningham John is to merge with Few & Kester of Cambridge, creating a combined East Anglian law firm with 23 partners called Kester Cunningham John... [more]

Shanks is to sell its 24 landfill sites and related power operations to Terra Firma for £227m, and the business will be merged with Waste Recycling Group... [more]

ITV's chief executive Charles Allen has confirmed that he wants to divest "non-core" divisions of the business, such as Carlton Screen Advertising and post-production firm The Moving Picture Company.... [more]

The UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA) is putting pressure on the major oil operators in the North Sea to divest non-core assets that are not being exploited. They are arguing that the low rate... [more]

Bookham Technology has acquired Onetta, the US optical amplifier supplier, for about £13m... [more]

Britton Group, the plastic packaging supplier with 850 staff at sites in Winsford, Hartlepool and Louth, has undergone a £46m management buy-out... [more]

NetBenefit has acquired Easily, the provider of domain name and hosting services, for £2.5m... [more]

Alpha Financial Management has acquired Eccleston Park Financial Services of Prescot for undisclosed terms... [more]

UCB, the French pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals company, is planning to dispose of its chemicals business, which makes additives, coating resins and industrial coatings. In mid-May the compan... [more]

Brian McGowan, the new boss of Rentokil, is said to be evaluating a break-up option for the business services conglomerate. Analysts are betting on an early decision to hive off the parcels and confer... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland has put part of the Grosvenor House Hotel up for sale. The southern block contains 140 serviced apartments and is expected to fetch around £100 million. Property agents DTZ have... [more]

McInerney Holdings has acquired Alexander Developments, the Sedgefield-based housebuilder, for £8.8m... [more]

Technology Services Group has acquired ISI Systems, the Glasgow-based IT services company with 30 staff, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Seafield Logistics is to acquire the Ken Thomas haulage company at Guyhirn, near Wisbech, which will lead to the loss of ten management jobs and the closure of a depot in Peterborough... [more]

Viking Engineering, the Nottingham-based architectural metalwork company, has undergone a £2m management buy-out backed by Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking... [more]

SSL International is to sell its antiseptics and surgical gloves business to a management team backed by Apax for £173m... [more]

Alchemy has acquired Swift Advances, the mortgage and consumer credit lender, for about £100m... [more]

Peter Hunt's Bakery Foods has acquired the frozen savoury foods business of Preston-based Ashworth's Foods, and production will transfer to its site in Bolton... [more]

Fresh Media Group has acquired Vision, the Milton Keynes and London-based catalogue design company... [more]