Aroma & Fine Chemicals, the manufacturer of fragrances, has been sold by Close Brothers Private Equity to Octel of the US for £21m.... [more]

Technology Services Group has acquired Baron Corporate Systems, the Leeds-based software company.... [more]

Terra Firma is expected to acquire both the Odeon and the UCI cinema chains for £400m and £182m respectively.... [more]

Laird has acquired Advanced Metal Technologies, the US window security company, for £3.1m.... [more]

Moss Pharmacy has acquired Joyce Morrison, the chain of 17 pharmacies in Scotland, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Public Recruitment Group has acquired Action First Recruitment Consultants, the London-based provider of social workers with 24 staff, for an initial £11m... [more]

Connaught has acquired Gas Care Central Heating and Building Services Training, two Caerphilly-based suppliers of services to the social housing sector, for £1.6m... [more]

Embattled security-to-pest-control firm Rentokil Initial is surrounded by rumours that it is in the sights of buyout firms. The company has reported back from a strategic review that it has ruled out ... [more]

Northmace has acquired Hendon International, the London-based supplier of equipment to hotels, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Spring Grove Property Maintenance is to be acquired by Park Street, the investment vehicle of Mount Street, for £5.4m... [more]

Monstermob has acquired 9 Squared, the US-based supplier of mobile entertainment services, for an initial £1.6m... [more]

Ilford Imaging, the world's biggest black and white film maker, is up for sale. Administrators are to seek a buyer for Ilford's film making division, which employs 740 staff in Cheshire, but warned th... [more]

Lark Construction, the Redruth-based social housing contractor with 78 staff, has been bought out of receivership by Rok for undisclosed terms... [more]

Anglo American is to acquire Johnston Group, the aggregates and engineering company, for £53m, having beaten a rival offer from Ennstone... [more]

Kingfield Health, the country's second-largest wholesaler of office products, has put itself on the market. The company, who are being advised by the French bank SocGen, has annual sales of more than ... [more]

Investment bank NM Rothschild is to open the books of UK nursing home operator Westminster Healthcare to would-be suitors in a sale that could raise over £400m. The sale is expected to attract interes... [more]

One of Scotland’s most famous distillers, the West Lothian-based Glenmorangie group, has been put up for sale. The 300-year-old company, which employs almost 400 staff, has been put on the market by i... [more]

Laird has acquired Centurion Wireless Technologies, the US supplier of mobile handset antennae, for £107m, while its Laird Plastics division has been sold to Blackfriars Corporation for £36m... [more]

CI Traders is to acquire ComProp for £51m, in order to expand its property development operations on the Channel Islands... [more]

ARM Holdings is to acquire Artisan Components, the US technology company, for £502m... [more]