NWF Group has sold five country stores to Countrywide Farmers for £2.4m, and has also announced the acquisition of Victoria Garden Centre for £6.1m... [more]

Tufnol, the Birmingham-based supplier of machined parts for the technical plastics sector with 70 staff, has been bought out of receivership by management... [more]

Ant Marketing is creating 200 telemarketing jobs at its call centres in Sheffield, Rotherham and Chesterfield... [more]

Manor Kingdom, the Dunfermline-based luxury housebuilder, has been acquired by the owner of Bett Homes for undisclosed terms... [more]

CDI Group, the Birmingham-based network systems company with 90 staff, has sold its Bristol-based South and West division to management... [more]

Britvic has acquired the water division of Huddersfield-based soft drinks company Ben Shaws, which employs 48 staff... [more]

Sage has acquired IntelligentApps, the London-based software company with turnover of £1m, as well as George Stamford, the holding company of Advanced Paypoint Solutions... [more]

DTW, the PR and marketing agency with 30 staff in Guisborough, Canterbury and London, has been acquired by PPS for £2m... [more]

Leisure group Whitbread is likely to ditch the TGI Friday restaurant chain unless it performs significantly better. The 41-branch hamburger chain is run as a franchise in Britain, but Whitbread will s... [more]

Hill & Smith is to buy part of Lionweld Kennedy out of receivership, including the flooring, highways and galvanizing divisions, for £2.6m... [more]

Brandon Hire has acquired AM Plant & Tool Hire of Luton for £0.2m, taking the total number of branches to 130... [more]

Charteris has acquired Cedalion, the Edinburgh-based IT consultancy, for £3m... [more]

Media Square has sold Coutts Packaging, the supplier of corrugated cardboard boxes, to a management team for up to £3.9m... [more]

Lookers has acquired Darlington Volkswagen from Mill Garages for £0.8m, in order to complement its existing VW dealership on Teesside... [more]

RPC is to acquire the European plastic packaging operations of Nampak for £23m, and the Woburn Sands site will be closed and production transferred to the other two sites in Haltwhistle and Llantrisan... [more]

Colliers CRE has acquired Fletcher King Manchester, the Manchester-based firm of chartered surveyors, for £0.4m... [more]

Deltron Electronics has acquired Quiller Electronics, the distributor of electromechanical components to the manufacturing industry, for £3.1m... [more]

Highway Insurance has acquired Direct Motorline, the Ipswich-based insurance broker, for £3.4m, and the business will relocate to Highway's Ipswich office in early 2005... [more]

Cobham has acquired Spectronic, the Danish manufacturer of audio surveillance products with 60 staff, for £21m... [more]

Carr's Milling Industries is to acquire Meneba UK, the operator of flour mills in Kirkcaldy and Maldon, for £4.7m... [more]