Derwent London, the new property company formed as a result of Derwent Valley's recent takeover of London Merchant Securities, it to put around £300m of London Merchant's portfolio up for sale. The p... [more]

Moorgate Paper has acquired Fredk Johnson Paper Group, the Enfield-based paper merchant with nine staff.... [more]

Sirvis IT is to acquire Technology Management Group, the IT services company, for £2.1m.... [more]

Ennstone Johnston has acquired May Gurney Surfacing, the Norfolk-based surfacing contractor, for £0.5m.... [more]

BiB Group has acquired Scanlon Insurance Services of Bedale, North Yorkshire, and is now seeking further acquisitions in North East market towns.... [more]

Nottingham City Council has sold Tollerton Airport to Truman Aviation for about £5m, and the site will be renamed Nottingham City Airport and used for pilot training and an air taxi service.... [more]

QHotels has acquired the Telford Golf & Country Club Hotel in Shropshire for undisclosed terms, and is planning a £5m refurbishment of the site in 2007.... [more]

Talarius Plc, the operator of the Quicksilver chain of high street gaming centres, is to be taken over by European Gaming Limited, a specially created company set up by Australian lottery operator Tat... [more]

Home Delivery Network has acquired Famac, the Carrickfergus-based parcel delivery company, securing the future of 150 staff.... [more]

Alliance Trust has acquired Albany Ventures, the Edinburgh-based venture capital investment company with gross assets of £0.5m.... [more]

Genetix Group has acquired Applied Imaging Corporation, the cell imaging company with 65 staff in Newcastle and the US, for £14m.... [more]

Real Time Engineering, the IT consultancy with 140 staff in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London and Qatar, has been acquired by Sword Group of France for up to £15m.... [more]

Talarius, the chain of amusement arcades, is to be acquired by Tattersall's and Macquarie of Australia for £137m.... [more]

ICI is to sell Quest, the Dutch flavours and fragrances business with 3,400 staff at sites including Ashford and Bromborough, to Givaudan of Switzerland for £1.2bn.... [more]

Troubled UK printing company Polestar is rumoured to be considering a sale of the company as well as conducting ongoing restructuring talks with lenders. A source close to the situation revealed that ... [more]

Northern Foods, the UK-listed food group, has agreed to sell its speciality bread, chilled pastry, cakes and flour milling businesses to Vision Capital for £160m.... [more]

ICI, the UK-listed chemicals group, announced today that it has sold Quest, its flavours and fragrance business to Swiss rival Givaudan.... [more]

West Ham United have today recommended an £85m takeover bid from a consortium led by Icelandic businessman Eggert Magnusson after almost four months of speculation over the future of the club.... [more]

Dagsbrun, the Icelandic investment firm specialising in media, telecoms and entertainment companies, is to sell Wyndeham Press Group and its English parent company Daybreak Acquisitions.... [more]

UK caravan dealer Glossop may consider putting the business up for sale in the long term due to succession problems according to insiders. The two owners, Brian and Stan Laing, allegedly do not have a... [more]