Petrol Express has acquired 14 petrol filling stations in the Midlands and South Wales from Texaco for £4.5m, taking its total chain to 62.... [more]

Foyles has acquired Bookplace, the online book retailer, in order to expand its own web and mail order division.... [more]

Boots is planning to merge with Alliance UniChem in a £7bn deal that would create a combined healthcare and beauty retailing business with 2,600 stores in the UK.... [more]

Harrowell Shaftoe is to merge with Ashworth Tetlow, creating a combined Yorkshire-based legal firm with 160 staff.... [more]

Pharmagene, the biotechnology company, has agreed terms for a £13m merger with Asterand of the US, which is expected to lead to the loss of about 23 jobs.... [more]

Jefferson Smurfit is to merge with Kappa Packaging to create the largest cardboard box manufacturer in Europe.... [more]

Ipswich & Norwich Co-op is to merge with Colchester & East Essex Co-op to create a group of 200 trading outlets called the East of England Co-op.... [more]

Holland Mitchell of Southampton has merged with Young & Butt of Fareham to create a combined property agency with 22 staff.... [more]

Yardley, the English perfume, could be up for sale by owner Proctor and Gamble (P&G). P&G, the healthcare and household products giant, has merged with Gillette and confirmed that it is to 'explore s... [more]

Medical Report Services of Redditch has merged with Ewitness, the Leeds-based medico-legal agency with 50 staff, and the new group will trade as eReporting.... [more]

West Midlands Co-op is planning to merge with Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op, creating a combined group with more than 350 stores and a turnover of £500m.... [more]

Alsters Kelley Solicitors, the Coventry-based law firm with 185 staff, has merged with Richards, Heynes & Coopers.... [more]

Leader Communications, the Henley in Arden-based public relations agency, has merged with The Immediate Consultancy of Solihull.... [more]

Britannic Group is to merge with Resolution Life Group, creating a combined closed life fund business valued at about £1.8bn.... [more]

Smith & Williamson has merged with Bristol-based Soloman Hare, creating a combined accounting and financial advisory firm with annual turnover of £120m.... [more]

Formpro has merged with Mail Marketing International to create a combined commercial printing business with sites in Cheddar, Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.... [more]

Clark Business Products has merged with Bath-based 1st Office Equipment Group and Bristol-based Braley Reprographics to form a new group called 1st Office, and there are plans to open new franchised s... [more]

KPMG has sold former Rathbones bakeries in Walsall, Leicester and Peterborough, as well as a Carlisle distribution centre, to two former directors operating under the name of Harvestime, securing the ... [more]

Partech Instruments is to merge with EauxSys, creating a combined Cornwall-based water testing equipment group with 24 staff called Partech... [more]

Aukett, the provider of design services to the property and construction sectors, is planning to merge with London-based architect Fitzroy Robinson in a reverse takeover... [more]