Fasion retailer, John David Group, has confirmed that it is considering a possible sale of some or all of its business as part of a strategic review. The company is believed to have had difficulties ... [more]

Reeves Oilfield Services of Loughborough has been acquired by Precision Drilling Corporation of Canada for £90m... [more]

Wealth Management Software has acquired Fairs, the supplier of software to independent financial advisers, for £2m... [more]

GWR and Caledonia Investments are to sell Radio Investments, the owner of 22 local radio stations, to The Local Radio Company for about £40m... [more]

Danish Crown has acquired Flagship Foods, the pork producer that includes Roach Foods and Dalehead Foods, in order to expand its Tulip subsidiary... [more]

Kerry Group has acquired four flavour companies for a total £113m including Manheimer and Flavurence of the US, Laboratorios Krauss of Mexico and Fructamine of Italy... [more]

Galleon Holdings has acquired Croco Worldwide Sourcing, the promotions company, in an all-share deal... [more]

Intertek has acquired Entela, the US automotive components testing company, for £15m... [more]

Bunzl has acquired Groupe Pierre Le Goff, the French distributor of cleaning and safety products, for £157m... [more]

Uniq is to acquire a chilled desserts manufacturing business in Minsterley, Shropshire, from Northern Foods for £16m which will involve the transfer of 520 staff... [more]

Aggregate Industries is to acquire Frehner, the US-based construction company that supplies aggregates and asphalt from sites in Nevada and Utah, for £53m... [more]

Longhirst Group has acquired People Resource Management, the Portsmouth-based training provider with 60 staff, for £1.2m... [more]

John Roe has acquired the Toyota car dealership in Hull from JCT-600 in a multi-million pound deal... [more]

Emerald Group Publishing is to acquire Conveco, the Bristol-based chain of 64 convenience stores with more than 900 staff, for an estimated £25m... [more]

Emerald Group Publishing, the Bradford-based academic publishing company with 170 staff, has undergone a £50m management buy-out... [more]

Airdrome of the US has acquired AF Aerospace, the Rugby-based manufacturer of aircraft hydraulic components with 100 staff... [more]

Tencel, the textile fibres company with 150 staff at a factory in Grimsby, has been acquired by Lenzing of Austria... [more]

I-documentsystems is to acquire TFPL, the London-based knowledge management consultancy, for up to £4m... [more]

Earls Court & Olympia, the London-based conference and exhibition centre, is to be acquired by St James Capital in a £245m deal... [more]

Securitas of Sweden is to acquire Bell Group, the Ilford-based supplier of banking security systems with 800 staff, for £97m... [more]