British Salt, the Cheshire-based salt supplier with 125 staff, is considering plans for a £100m management buy-out from US Salt Holdings.... [more]

Rosewood Packaging has acquired Alexander Box Company, the Cumbernauld-based supplier of printed corrugated packaging with 39 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

SigmaKalon, the European paint supplier, is expected to be put up for sale in 2007 for around £1.3m. Owners Bain Capital bought the business in 2002 for £505m and according to insiders the business' p... [more]

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James Fisher is to acquire FT Everard, the operator of 11 coastal tankers, for £52m.... [more]

Datatec is to acquire CSF Solutions, the enterprise IT solutions provider, and a CSF Managed Services data centre in Bracknell for £6m.... [more]

A source close to Torbay Conversions, the privately-owned supplier of leisure vehicles, has revealed that owner Roger Pattie may consider offers for the company in order to move into new areas. Torbay... [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]

ISA, the privately-held UK office supplies company, has been put up for sale after owner Brett Palos hired US investment bank Rothschild to seek buyers for the business. ... [more]

Archimedes Pharma has acquired Link Pharmaceuticals of Horsham, West Sussex, for almost £25m. Link is a profitable business which is on track to record revenues of around £16 million in 2006, showing ... [more]

English Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), the UK's largest rail operator of freight services, could be up for sale following reports that the main shareholders have agreed to sell the group. ... [more]

TNT, the Dutch mail and express delivery service, has announced plans to sell its freight management division. ... [more]

The Airdrie-based whisky and spirits company, Inver House Distillers, has recently become a subsidiary of International Beverage Holdings, the international arm of Thai Beverages. While the company de... [more]

Wincanton is to acquire RDL Holdings, the provider of supply chain services to the building industry with 350 staff at 38 sites, for £22m. The deal consists of a debt-free initail consideration of £22... [more]

Wincanton is to acquire Lane Group Plc, the Bristol-based home delivery company, for up to £2m plus the assumption of £6m of debt. The acquisition will be financed from existing banking facilities. La... [more]

Macfarlane Group is to acquire Bloomfield Supplies, the Gloucester-based packaging distributor with 22 staff, for up to £2m. Glasgow-based Macfarlane will pay an initial £1.5m, with the remainer to be... [more]

Corsie Group has acquired Kaloss International, the supplier of health and beauty products, for £0.4m, and will relocate the business from Chesterfield to Musselburgh. Kalos distributes a range of pro... [more]

Heywood Williams is to acquire Carlisle Brass Group, the architectural hardware distributor with sites in Carlisle, Blackburn and Preston, for £48m. Established in 1986 by current Group Managing Direc... [more]

Woolworths has acquired Total Home Entertainment Distribution (THE), the wholesaler of entertainment products, from 3i for £20m. THE will now form part of Woolworths' Entertainment UK division alongsi... [more]

TriVest VCT has sold Secure Mail Services, the Northampton-based provider of business mail solutions with 550 staff, to Candover for £4.2m. TriVest will also receive a further £1.5m over the next thre... [more]