Lucketts Travel is to acquire Worthing Coaches, creating a combined coach travel business with 44 coaches and annual turnover of £6.8m.... [more]

Digital Classics is to acquire Box TV for £6m and NBD Holdings for £1.5m, in order to expand its TV production business.... [more]

Lightly & Lightly is to merge with Hawley & Partners to create LHL Group, a combined Yorkshire-based building surveying and architectural practice with 40 staff.... [more]

Tate & Lyle is to acquire Continental Custom Ingredients of the US for £40m and Celaspinia Foods of Italy for £34m, in order to expand its food ingredients business.... [more]

Intertek has acquired Lintec Testing Services for £3m and Lubricant Quality Scan for £0.4m, in order to expand its marine fuel and lubricant testing business.... [more]

Aspen Clean Fuels is to merge with Shield Capital in a £14m deal, creating a new group called Aspen Clean Energy.... [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]

Dassett Process Engineering is to merge with BottleTech Solutions, the Cheltenham-based manufacturer of bagging and automation equipment.... [more]

BT has acquired CARA Group, the network services company with 134 staff in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in order to expand its BT Ireland subsidiary.... [more]

Pentagon has acquired two Vauxhall car dealerships in Sheffield, increasing its total number of outlets to 13.... [more]

Bioquell has acquired Laboratory Accreditation Services and TRL Compliance Services for £0.3m, in order to expand its Cape Engineering testing services business.... [more]

Campbell Dallas is to merge with MacMillan & Co of Glasgow, creating a combined accountancy group with annual turnover of more than £8m.... [more]

Johnsons Cars has acquired the Asgard Volvo car dealerships in Stourbridge and Solihull for undisclosed terms, taking its total network to 16.... [more]

BSkyB is to acquire Easynet, the internet service provider, for £211m, in order to form a new Sky Broadband division.... [more]

Support in Sport has acquired Palmyra, the Cumbria-based synthetic carpets manufacturer, creating a new group called SIS Manufacturing.... [more]

Gateley Wareing is to merge with Henderson Boyd Jackson to create a combined law firm called HBJ Gateley Wareing with offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester and Nottingham.... [more]

Experian has acquired Prediction Analytics, the US retail performance consultancy, in order to expand its Business Strategies division.... [more]

Celesio is to buy 111 Cohens and Scholes pharmacies in the north-west, Midlands and Yorkshire for up to £130m, in order to expand its Lloydspharmacy chain.... [more]

Select Hardware has acquired Cardiff-based Basic Hardware and Maxi-Pax for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its hardware products wholesaling business.... [more]