ECI Partners has acquired LateRooms, the Manchester-based online hotel booking business with 100 staff, for about £25m... [more]

James Fisher has acquired three companies in the UK and Norway for £7.3m, including Remote Marine Systems, Nuclear Decommissioning and Reanco Team... [more]

Cendant has agreed to acquire Ebookers, the online travel company, for £209m... [more]

Smiths is to acquire Medex, the US manufacturer of medical products, for £478m... [more]

Two winter sports fans who started selling sweatshirts to fund skiing trips could be in line for a multi-million pound windfall after hiring advisers to look at selling the lifestyle clothing brand Fa... [more]

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has publicly admitted for the first time that he plans to sell the financial data company named after him, which he founded in 1981 and which has made him one... [more]

European and UK institutions are expected to launch a bid of up to £200m early in the new year for Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based fund management company. Insiders say there is a mood among some o... [more]

Target Direct Marketing, the Cheltenham-based print management company, has been acquired by Cello for undisclosed terms... [more]

Strakan has acquired Elfar, the Spanish pharmaceuticals distribution company with 45 staff, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Gregory Distribution has acquired Greendale Haulage, the East Devon-based waste transport company with 30 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

MacLellan Group has acquired TASS, the supplier of cradles, safety eyebolts and safety ladder tie systems, for an initial £3.2m... [more]

ILX Group is to acquire Mindscope, the provider of classroom training and project management services, for up to £1.9m... [more]

BIP, the Oldbury-based plastic mouldings company, has been bought out of administration by Synthite of Mold for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 170 jobs... [more]

Aggregate Industries has acquired the Allt-y-Garn quarry near Cross Hands in South Wales... [more]

Page & Moy of Leicestershire has been acquired by Travelsphere, creating a combined travel business with annual sales of £175m... [more]

Life insurance and pensions software firm Marlborough Stirling has announced the firm is up for sale and warned its recovery is taking longer than expected. Chairman Paul Fullagar, who was appointed o... [more]

New Media Industries is to acquire Ipix Holdings for £4.5m, in order to expand its marketing services business... [more]

Sainsbury has acquired JB Beaumont, the operator of six convenience stores in the East Midlands with 193 staff... [more]

Kingston Communications is to acquire Omnetica, the Hemel Hempstead-based provider of enterprise network solutions, for £169m... [more]

Clapham House has acquired Gourmet Burger Kitchen, the operator of six London restaurants, for £2.6m... [more]