Busy Bees, the Staffordshire-based chain of 46 childcare nurseries, is to be acquired by ABC Learning Centres of Australia for £71m.... [more]

Carter & Carter is to acquire NTP, the Sheffield-based company with 220 staff, for £7.9m.... [more]

Carter & Carter is to acquire IMS, the Bradford-based company with 30 staff, for £3.5m.... [more]

Carter & Carter is to acquire Quantica Training, the London-based vocational training company with 125 staff, for £12m.... [more]

The sale of nursing home operator Life Style Care (LSC) is understood to be underway after advisors NM Rothschild distributed information to potential buyers last week. Those who received the informat... [more]

Huntleigh Technology, the UK manufacturer of medical equipment, announced today that it is to be acquired by Getinge of Sweden for £409m. ... [more]

Galapagos, the Belgian biotechnology company, is to acquire UK-based selective drug discovery company Inpharmatica for €12.5m.... [more]

Intertek has acquired Alta Analytical Laboratory Corporation, the US pharmaceutical testing company, for £13m.... [more]

iSoft, the UK-listed medical software company, has confirmed that it has entered into talks with a number of potential buyers with a view to putting the business up for sale. ... [more]

The sale of Phadia, the global allergy-testing company, began last week with the submission of an estimated ten first round bids.... [more]

James Hull, the milliionaire dentist who runs his own dentistry chain James Hull Associates is planning to sell a majority stake in the company to fund the acquisition of up to 17 further dental pract... [more]

Careforce Group has acquired Keycare Services, the provider of domiciliary care services with 130 staff in Workington and Carlisle, for up to £1.3m. An initial payment of £1m will be made in cash and ... [more]

Sinclair Pharma is to acquire Ashbourne Pharmaceuticals, the Northampton-based pharmaceuticals marketing company. The deal comprises an initial cash payment of £1.05m, plus the repayment of intra-grou... [more]

Claimar Care is to acquire MK Homecare, the Milton Keynes-based domiciliary care provider with 33 care workers, for up to £0.4m. The amount will be settled as a cash payment in full on competion. Clai... [more]

Four Seasons Health Care, the Wilmslow-based chain of 416 care homes and hospitals, has been acquired by finance group Three Delta for £1.4bn. Allianz said that the sale price represents around 14 t... [more]

Lyceum Capital has engaged NM Rothschild to manage the sale of UK residential-healthcare group Clinovia. Clinovia hopefully will fetch more than £50m. Clinovia previously attracted the attention of pr... [more]

Trigen, the biopharmaceutical company with offices in London and Munich, has reportedly hired US investment bank Piper Jaffray to advise on a potential sale or listing. UK-listed pharmaceuticals group... [more]

The CEO of UK biotechnology company Paradigm Therapeutics has stated that the company is looking to exit in the second half of 2007 following the completion of of an important licensing contract. Opti... [more]

UK-listed pharmaceuticals company Skyepharma is still set to divest all or part of its injectables business by the end of the year according to an insider. The business, which is based in San Diego, h... [more]

Independent Living Group, the UK nursing home group, has been put up for sale with an estimated price tag of around £60m. The company caters for people with learning difficulties and has 20 homes acr... [more]