NWF Group has acquired the Woodford Park Garden Centre near Manchester for £1.9m.... [more]

Speedy Hire has acquired Caledonian Safemaker, the temporary accommodation hire company with five depots, for £14m.... [more]

Paddock Fabrications, the Walsall-based lock manufacturer with more than 300 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Pitney Bowes is to acquire Emtex, the Hertfordshire-based printing software company, for £23m.... [more]

Dunn-Line has acquired Alpha Coach Company, the bus and coach operator with 45 staff at sites in Hull, Preston and Blackburn, for £2m.... [more]

ILX Group is to acquire Customer Projects for up to £1.1m, in order to expand its vocational education and training business.... [more]

Bunzl has acquired The Midshires Group, the vending machine operator with sites in Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Loughborough and Northampton, as well as Master Craft Packaging Corporation of the US.... [more]

P&MM has acquired Summersault Communications, the Leamington Spa-based internal corporate communications company, for an initial £1.5m, and has also announced plans to change its name to Motivcom.... [more]

Healthcare Locums is to acquire Medical Professionals and Social Work Professionals from European Recruitment Network Group for up to £1.2m, in order to expand its healthcare recruitment business.... [more]

Johnson Matthey is to acquire Davy Process Technology, the developer of chemical process technologies with 175 staff at sites in London and Stockton-on-Tees, from Yukos International for £40m.... [more]

Enodis has acquired Frau Group, the Spanish distributor of food and beverage equipment with 76 staff, for £5.6m.... [more]

DRS Data & Research Services is to acquire Peladon Software, the document processing company with offices in the US and Andover, for £2.7m.... [more]

Chemring is to acquire Technical Ordnance, the US pyrotechnics company, for £39m, as well as Leafield Engineering and Leafield Marine of Wiltshire for £5m.... [more]

Macfarlane Transport, the Leeds-based transport firm, has been sold out of administration by KPMG Corporate Recovery to a new company called Macfarlane Transport Holdings, securing the future of 300 j... [more]

Langdowns DFK is to merge with CW Fellowes to create a combined Hampshire-based accountancy group with 100 staff called Langdowns Fellowes DFK.... [more]

Smith Anderson has sold Eagle Envelopes, the manufacturer of envelopes at sites in Bathgate and Walsall, to Mayer-Kuvert of Germany for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Provalis is to sell most of its Provalis Healthcare division to the Kogen affiliate of Galen for about £10m, in order to focus on medical diagnostics.... [more]

Arora International Hotels is to acquire the Airport Hotels Unit Trust, which owns nine airport hotels in the UK, for £300m, and the properties will continue to be managed by BAA Lynton Management.... [more]

Thus is to acquire Your Communications from United Utilities for at least £59m, and most of Your's network is expected to be closed down with the loss of 300 jobs.... [more]

Misys is to acquire Payerpath, the US-based online processor of health claims, for £27m.... [more]