Wilsanco Plastics, the Dungannon-based packaging manufacturer with 200 staff, has been acquired by Greiner Packaging of Austria for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Canterbury Foods, the UK-listed food processor and manufacturer, has appointed PWC to conduct a full 'strategic review' of the business. Any strategic review could involve a sale of the company. Peopl... [more]

Capita Group has acquired Lonsdale Travel, the Derby-based travel management company with 220 staff, for £10m.... [more]

AT Communications is to acquire Sterry Group, the voice and data reseller with 156 staff at offices in Stockport and Welwyn Garden City, for £6.3m.... [more]

Halma has acquired Texecom, the Manchester-based manufacturer of security sensor and alarm products, for £26m.... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Expressions of Culture, the US-based exhibitions company, for £2.4m.... [more]

Trelleborg of Sweden has acquired Dunlop GRG Holdings, the Manchester-based manufacturer of large flexible containers with 50 staff, as well as bearings manufacturer Andre Structural Bearings.... [more]

Dawson & Son, the Leeds-based industrial brush manufacturer with 40 staff, has been acquired Koti Group of the Netherlands.... [more]

John Caudwell, the founder of Phones4U, on Wednesday placed the Caudwell Group, owner of the mobile phone retailer, on the market, indicating that the price tag could be close to £2bn.Caudwell said t... [more]

Talarius has acquired Blackheath Leisure, the London-based chain of 24 gaming centres, for £19m.... [more]

Smiths Group has acquired LiveWave, the US developer of software systems that link sensors and video cameras to remote viewing stations, for £10m.... [more]

Whitecroft Lighting, the Manchester-based lighting company with 280 staff, has been acquired by Fagerhult of Sweden for £21m.... [more]

DeVries has bought the Welptons car dealership in Hessle out of administration, while the bodyshop, parts and Hyundai operations of the Welpton Group have been acquired by Beerhouse Self Drive.... [more]

Fuller Smith & Turner has acquired George Gale & Co, the Hampshire brewer with 111 pubs, for £92m.... [more]

Polymer Laboratories, the Shropshire-based scientific instruments company with 160 staff, has been acquired by Varian of the US for £24m.... [more]

Argenta Discovery, the Essex, UK-based drug-development business, is considering a sale or flotation. Although chief executive Chris Ashton said the privately-owned company was not for sale, he confir... [more]

Vp has acquired Trax Portable Access, the Worksop-based supplier of portable roads and barriers, for an initial £11m.... [more]

Lighthouse Group has acquired Carrwood Barker, the firm of 40 independent financial advisers with offices in Manchester and Milton Keynes, for an initial £3.3m.... [more]

Quantica has sold the goodwill of its Construction People Recruitment Solutions business to management for a nominal sum.... [more]

Kewill Systems has acquired Interchain Holding, the developer of supply chain management software with 100 staff at offices in Northampton, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, for an initial £7.6m.... [more]