Biddles, the Norfolk-based book printing company, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

The De Vere Belfry golf course, hotel and leisure complex near Birmingham has been acquired by the Quinn Group of Ireland for £186m.... [more]

NAP Partnership has merged with Hyams and Brownlee of Teesside to create a combined quantity surveying and cost management firm with 130 staff.... [more]

Unilever, the Anglo Dutch consumer products and food group, will continue with disposals from its portfolio but plans no major acquisitions in response to the Proctor & Gamble/Gillette acquisition, sa... [more]

Creative Education Corporation is to acquire Headstart, the operator of nurseries in Peterborough, Northampton, Leighton Bu,ard and Milton Keynes, for £1.5m.... [more]

Speedy Hire has acquired DAD Hire Services, the Cheshire-based tool hire company, for £0.3m, while its Toilet Hire UK business has been sold to a management buy-in for £1.1m.... [more]

P&MM has acquired AYM Services, the performance improvement agency that provides motivation and incentive programmes, for £0.7m.... [more]

Voller Energy has acquired KAT-Chem, the German developer of hydrogen reformer technology, for up to £0.3m.... [more]

Creston is to acquire DLKW, the London-based advertising agency with 157 staff, for up to £38m, partly funded by a £10m share placing.... [more]

Highbury House Communications is planning to sell its BCom business publishing operations to Ergo Science Corporation for £10m.... [more]

IMI is to acquire Syron Engineering & Manufacturing, the US provider of press tooling solutions, for £18m.... [more]

Capita Symonds has acquired Buchanan Consulting Engineers, the development and transport consultancy with 55 staff in London and Newbury.... [more]

Anite Group is to sell Datavance, its French IT consultancy division, to a management buy-out for £13m.... [more]

Brandon Hire has acquired the tool hire operations of Harborough Hire Centre in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire for £1m.... [more]

ChandlerKBS has acquired Corderoy , the Edinburgh-based project management consultant, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Osma Underfloor Heating of Exeter has been acquired by Wavin Group of the Netherlands for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Unilever has sold its Crisp 'n Dry and Cookeen cooking fat businesses to Princes Manufacturing for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Six UK greyhound tracks have been put up for sale by gaming group Wembley as part of a move which will lead to the break-up of the group. Wembley announced the planned sale as it revealed it was to of... [more]

Planned Maintenance Engineering (PME), the UK-based buildings management group, has appointed Grant Thornton to handle the company's sale, according to reports. McAlpine, Interserve and Carillion, th... [more]

TI Automotive, the fuel storage and brake systems business, is to be placed on the market for £850m. Twenty per cent of the business is owned by engineering firm Smiths Group, which si looking to reco... [more]