PNC Telecom is to acquire SIM4Travel, the supplier of mobile phone SIM cards to travellers, in a £2.4m reverse takeover.... [more]

ArmorGroup International has acquired Phoenix CP, the Hereford-based provider of close-protection training courses, for £4.2m.... [more]

MCG Graphics, the package printing company with 105 staff in Hull, London and Cumbria, has been acquired by Southern Graphic Systems of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Shore To Shore has acquired John Hampden Packaging, the folding carton company, and Shore to Shore will transfer its own Nottingham division to the JHP site in Derbyshire.... [more]

EndX, the Oldham-based supplier of gaming management software with 35 staff, has been acquired by Progressive Gaming of the US for £15m.... [more]

Cavendish Grant is to merge with Chartwell to create a combined Bath-based financial services group with 60 staff.... [more]

Captain Birdseye and Findus are being eyed by Blackstone, one of the world's largest private-equity houses. Blackstone is aiming to build a £2bn frozen-food empire, and it has lodged its interest in b... [more]

Dateline, the UK's biggest dating agency, has been placed on the market by interactive group Yoomedia, which bought it for £650k less than 18 months ago.... [more]

XenoSense, the Belfast-based biotechnology company with seven staff, has been acquired by Biacore International of Sweden.... [more]

Strategic Thought is to acquire Line International, the Bristol-based risk management software company, for £1.2m.... [more]

United Business Media has acquired Black Hat, the operator of IT security conferences in the US, Europe and Asia, for £6m.... [more]

Wyndeham Press has acquired Connect Digital Imaging, the Manchester-based flexographic printing company with 38 staff, for an initial £1m.... [more]

Seabay has acquired Quickfish, the Grimsby-based seafood importer and distributor, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Systems Geotechnique has acquired Fondedile Foundations from Sir Robert McAlpine for undisclosed terms, and the business will move from Hemel Hempstead to a new office in Alton, Hampshire.... [more]

VolkerWessels has acquired Laser Holdings, the civil engineering contractor with 250 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

BPB, the plasterboard company, has accepted a £3.9bn takeover offer from Saint Gobain of France.... [more]

Amtico, the Electra Partners-owned flooring business, has hired Close Brothers to manage its sale. The company was likely to fetch £130m.... [more]

The Nightclub Company, which operates 22 big venues is to be broken up. Bigger rival Luminar is thought to be interested in the Nightclub Company's best 13 sites, worth a combined £9.5m.... [more]

Begbies Traynor has acquired W3 Debt Solutions, the Chorley-based debt company with 15 staff, for an initial £1.4m.... [more]

Language Line, the language interpreting service with about 670 translators and interpreters, is to be acquired by a US-based company of the same name for about £23m.... [more]