Acquisition Resources

Vp has acquired Dudley Vale, the supplier of piling equipment with sites in Croydon and Oldham, from GE Equipment Services for £3.5m.... [more]

Begbies Traynor has sold DW Weaver, the milk haulage company with 135 staff in Endon, Nantwich, Chester and Ashbourne, out of administration to a management team.... [more]

Spirit Group has sold ten large London pubs to Capital Pub Company for £31m.... [more]

Detica has acquired Evolution Consulting, the IT services company with 105 staff, for £8.5m.... [more]

Hat Pin is to acquire a 70% stake in Saxton Bampfylde Hever, the executive recruitment company, in a £4.9m reverse takeover.... [more]

P&O, the container ports and ferries group, has accepted a £3.3bn takeover offer from DP World of Dubai.... [more]

Plans to sell the Adare Printing Group, the UK printing company owned by the Irish private equity firm Allen McGuire & Partners, are not going well, according to sources tracking the process. One sour... [more]

Urban Dining is considering putting itself on the market, according to market reports in the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph. The AIM-listed restaurant business has called off attempts to buy ... [more]

RSL Steeper, the UK footwear and artificial limbs group, could be up for sale, according to a short unsourced item in the Independent. The report noted a GBP 18m (EUR 26.3m) price tag for the group an... [more]

Robert Tchenguiz, the property magnate, has hired Citigroup to consider options for Invergordon. The investment bank has been tasked with finding buyers for the Scottish distiller, or seeking out acqu... [more]

Avery Weigh-Tronix, the UK weighing-scale manufacturer, is for sale with a £100m price tag. Baird, the US investment bank has been hired as adviser on the deal, which could be clinched early in the ne... [more]

Sweetmans Select Savouries, the Swansea-based bakery, has been bought out of administration by Cleary Foods Group for undisclosed terms, saving more than 40 jobs.... [more]

William Halley Group, the Dundee-based textiles supplier with 40 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Morethanhotels has acquired Foremost Hotels, the operator of three Express by Holiday Inn hotels, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Speciality Retail Group has undergone a £30m management buy-out backed by Gresham Private Equity, and is now planning to expand its Suits You and Racing Green stores.... [more]

Syndicate Asset Management is to acquire Investment Management Holdings for about £7.6m.... [more]

Shed Productions is to acquire Ricochet, the Brighton-based TV production company, for £30m.... [more]

Man Group has sold the European operations of the recently-acquired Refco brokerage business to Marathon Asset Management of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Amec to sell SPIE unit. AMEC SPIE provides services and expertise in electrical, mechanical and HVAC engineering, energy, communication networks and rail infrastructure to industrial, commercial and i... [more]

GCap, the listed UK radio group, will divest nine radio stations, the group announced when presenting its half year results. GCap has idenitifed nine analogue radio station, which shall be sold. It wa... [more]