Green Tyre Company, the Middlesbrough-based manufacturer of puncture-proof tyres, has been bought out of administration by a new company called Flat Free Tyres.... [more]

Morgan Crucible is to acquire the ceramic fibres business of Cookson for £13m, including production sites in Poland and the US.... [more]

Rexam is planning to acquire Airspray, the Dutch manufacturer of foam pumps with 140 staff and annual sales of £31m.... [more]

Go-Ahead is to acquire Probus Management, the Birmingham-based bus operator with more than 100 vehicles, for £2.4m.... [more]

UHV Design, the East Sussex-based manufacturer of instruments used to manipulate objects in ultra-high vacuum chambers, has been acquired by Judges Capital for an initial £0.7m.... [more]

Aegis Group has acquired Integrator, the South African marketing company, for up to £5.6m.... [more]

Sovereign Oilfield has acquired OIL Corporation, the Aberdeen-based oil services company with about 100 staff, for up to £4.8m.... [more]

Lavendon has acquired Kestrel Powered Access, the Bristol-based company with 27 staff, for £4.3m.... [more]

Lloyds TSB has sold its banking operations in Paraguay to HSBC for £8.6m, which will involve the transfer of 200 staff at six branches.... [more]

Industrial property company Brixton is to sell £450m of property to take advantage of high prices in the market. The company is to set up a £300m Jersey property unit trust in which it will hold a 25 ... [more]

Norwegian conglomerate Orkla has said it aims to find a new owner of strategic partner for its media business within the next few months. The company's media assets include magazines and regional news... [more]

Jelf Group has acquired Goss Group, the insurance broker with 170 staff in Reading, Guildford, Cheltenham, Newton Abbot and Taunton, for an initial £6.3m.... [more]

Ennstone has acquired Smiths Construction, the Newark-based road surfacing contractor with 102 staff, for £3.7m.... [more]

Aviva has sold Lex Commercial, Lex Auto Logistics, Lex Fleetserve and Lex Multipart Defence to Imperial Holdings of South Africa for £50m, which will involve the transfer of 1,300 staff.... [more]

Schroders is to acquire NewFinance Capital, the London-based hedge funds company, for £58m.... [more]

Heinz has sold its European seafood operations, including the John West fish brand in the UK, to Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking for £290m.... [more]

Conran Holdings may be up for sale. Founder Sir Terence Conran has talked with members of his family about offering chief executive officer Des Gunewardena the opportunity to lead a buyout of the desi... [more]

Digital Look, the consumer-finance website business, has appointed NewBoathouse Capital to conduct a strategic review following several unsolicited approaches for the company.Digital Look has remaine... [more]

London & Continental (LCR), the UK-based railway group, has been reclassified by the UK government as a public entity. LCR has announced that it is considering a break-up of the group. LCR said the ON... [more]

BBA is more likely to demerge its Fiberweb materials arm than sell it. Low bids in BBA's auction of Fiberweb are to blame for the decision. Fiberweb has a valuation of £700m for Fiberweb, without attr... [more]