Cello Group has acquired Chiaros Holdings, the holding company for Labinah Management Training, for £4.1m.... [more]

BSS Group has acquired A Warren & Sons, the supplier of industrial products to the construction industry with branches in Oldham, Birmingham, Leeds and East London, for £14m.... [more]

Darchem Engineering, the aerospace company with about 600 staff in Stockton and Gloucester, has been acquired by Esterline Corporation of the US for £70m.... [more]

Boxwood has sold Certainty Group, the Leeds-based support services and facilities management company with annual turnover of £20m, to a management buy-out.... [more]

Carphone Warehouse is to acquire Onetel from Centrica for an initial £132m, as well as the UK fixed-line telecoms business of Tele2 for £8.7m.... [more]

First Technology, the Surrey-based safety device engineering company, is to be acquired by Honeywell International of the US for £207m.... [more]

Johnston Press has acquired Scotsman Publications for £160m, in order to expand its regional newspapers business.... [more]

Inventive Leisure, the owner of Revolution vodka bars, is to be acquired by Alchemy Partners for £42m.... [more]

Punch Taverns has sold 205 pubs to Petchey Group for £98m, leaving it with an estate of 9,500 outlets.... [more]

Premier Research has acquired IMFORM, the German pharmaceutical services company with 144 staff, for up to £4.7m.... [more]

Rexam's glass packaging operations are increasingly being viewed within the industry as a non-core disposal candidate. There is a general expectation within the industry that Rexam will ultimately com... [more]

Whitbread's 42 Marriot hotels are likely to be sold early in the Next Year. Planning to sell the hotels, Whitbread had formed a joint venture over its franchises with Marriott, the US company which ow... [more]

Langan's, the London restaurant group, has been contacted by six potential bidders in the past two months, according to the owner Richard Shepherd, Shepherd is considering a sale, but he has denied th... [more]

EBS FX Solutions, the currency and commodity exchange, is poised for a sale, according to a reports. EBS's owners, a consortium of banks, has appointed Citigroup to conduct a strategic review. Citigro... [more]

Mowlem, the UK-based construction company, may look to sell Barclay Mowlem, its Australian arm, according to an unsourced Australian Financial Review report. Carillion, the UK-based construction compa... [more]

All3Media, the UK-based television production group, has hired UBS to conduct a strategic review that could lead to a sale. A flotation is another option. The business could be valued at £250m. Bridge... [more]

Lookers is to acquire six car dealerships from HR Owen, including Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo sites in Colchester, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds, for about £3.4m.... [more]

Amec has acquired Domec, the French heating, ventilation and air conditioning services company with 60 staff, for £0.4m.... [more]

Homeserve has acquired Improveline, the Chiswick-based chain of six property repair branches with 320 staff, for an initial £14m.... [more]

Filmnight has acquired Prime Time, the chain of 47 DVD stores, for about £3m, taking its total network to 99 company-owned stores and 120 franchised stores.... [more]