SFI Group, the licensed UK pub group, would most likely only get piecemeal offers for its remaining assets. SFI's administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers, have the weaker 52 sites of the pub group's 15... [more]

Inmedia Communications, the satellite services company, is to be acquired by Macquarie of Australia for £70m.... [more]

ICI is to acquire the German emulsion powders business of Celanese for £15m, in order to expand its Elotex polymeric additives business.... [more]

RPS has acquired BHC, the Nottinghamshire-based occupational healthcare company with 60 staff, for £3.6m.... [more]

Creston is to acquire Red Door Communications, the London-based public relations company with 32 staff, for up to £14m.... [more]

Misys is to acquire Almonde, the supplier of risk management software with 35 staff in London and Paris, for £10m.... [more]

Weir is to sell the water treatment operations of its Techna division to Veolia Water Systems for £28m.... [more]

PHS Group, the washroom services company, is to be acquired by Charterhouse for £600m.... [more]

Onyx Internet of Middlesbrough has acquired Askaris, the North Yorkshire-based internet service provider.... [more]

Celtic Inns, the privately-held UK pub chain, expects to be sold to a trade partner within three years. This was according to the company's managing director Duncan Murray. In the interim, the company... [more]

United Business Media has acquired the US-based Incoming Calls Management Institute for £2.1m, in order to expand its CMP Media subsidiary.... [more]

Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire two fund management operations from Deutsche Asset Management, including the London and Philadelphia-based fixed income businesses and the Oeic business, funded... [more]

Talarius has acquired Leisure Promotions and In To Save for a total £11m, increasing its estate of Quicksilver amusement centres from 129 to 142.... [more]

Sanderson Group has acquired Progressive Computer Systems, the Batley-based provider of browser software with 22 staff, for up to £1.7m.... [more]

Intermodal Resource is to acquire Taylored Hire, the truck and trailer contract hire company based in the North West, for £1.9m.... [more]

Laplace Electrical has acquired RE Dew, the Reading-based controls company with 15 staff, for about £0.6m.... [more]

United Co-op Health Care has acquired Sheard Group, the chain of seven pharmacies in Leeds and Harrogate, as well as Saffer Chemists, which has two stores in Leeds, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Lioncourt Capital has appointed IBI Corporate Finance to auction its Jarvis Hotels chain. The UK-based hotels have an asking price of approximately £200m the report said, without citing sources for th... [more]

Taittinger, the listed French luxury and hotels group, is understood to have attracted the interest of seven potential buyers. The list of bidders include Terra Firma, Starwood Capital Group, Cinven, ... [more]

Rok Property Solutions has acquired Topcon, the Grimsby-based construction company with 62 staff, for £3.2m, as well as Lemmeleg Building & Contracting, the Wakefield company with 107 staff, for £1.7m... [more]