Thomson Intermedia has acquired Billetts, the media consultancy, for up to £13m.... [more]

Enterprise has acquired CRW Maintenance, the provider of property maintenance services to local authorities in the North East and Midlands, for £6.3m.... [more]

Northumbrian Water has sold Fastflow, its Washington-based pipeline contracting business with 240 staff, to management.... [more]

Gibbs & Dandy has acquired Timber Force, the Kettering-based builders' merchant, for up to £1.7m.... [more]

NG Bailey has acquired Johnson Brothers, the Leeds-based ceiling and plasterwork contractor with more than 100 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Betfair, the UK-based betting exchange company, is looking for a new finance executive to enter its next development stage. This strategic management change signals that a public listing of the compan... [more]

British Land, the UK's second-biggest property group, may sell its residential property business, according to a report in the Independent. The article stated that Nick Ritblat, director and son of th... [more]

Linguarama, the corporate language training company that includes the Cheney Court residential training centre, has been sold by BPP Holdings to Marcus Evans Business Education Centres.... [more]

QinetiQ has acquired Apogen, the US IT company with 900 staff, for £163m.... [more]

Red Letter Days, the experience gift company, has been bought out of administration by AIC.... [more]

Sportingbet is to acquire ISC Entertainment, the Antigua-based online gambling company, for up to £22m.... [more]

St Tropez, the fake-tan business, is up for sale for between £60m and £80m. Cooper Parry has been appointed as an adviser to the company, which is jointly headquartered in Nottingham, UK and Californi... [more]

Liberty Life, the owner of Liberty Ermitage, the off-shore alternative asset management group, has appointed Hawkpoint, the corporate finance boutique, to examine strategic options.Liberty Ermitage s... [more]

Begbies Traynor has acquired Taylor, Gotham & Fry, the Essex-based provider of insolvency services, for an initial £3m.... [more]

Smiths Group has acquired Sevit, the Italian medical device distributor, for £3.5m, as well as Hi-Tech Hose of the US for £9m and Farnam Custom Products of the US for £3.5m.... [more]

Lindley Catering, the Stoke-based contract catering company with 400 staff, has been acquired by private equity firm Sovereign Capital for £14m.... [more]

TT Electronics has sold its Houchin Aerospace power generation subsidiary to an undisclosed trade buyer for £8m.... [more]

Woolworths has sold its MVC chain of 76 music and DVD stores to a group of investors led by Argyll Partners for £5.5m.... [more]

Honeycombe Leisure, the UK pubs business based in Lancashire, may be considering selling off its assets, according to a market report in the Financial Times. The business is said to be reviewing its o... [more]

Jacobs Rimell, the UK OSS (operating support systems) provisioning software company for broadband operators, could go up for sale. In 2002, DN Capital, Advent International, E-Tech, and Fidelity Ventu... [more]