Red Vision, the visual effects company with sites in Bristol, Manchester and London, has been acquired by Inspired Gaming Group for up to £20m.... [more]

Mears has acquired Laidlaw Scott, the Glasgow-based maintenance contractor, for an initial £2.1m.... [more]

Final bids for ES Pipelines, the gas transportation group, are expected in next week. Inexus, ABN Amro and Prudential are the last remaining bidders for the company, but it is unclear whether all thr... [more]

Star Capital is reviewing the future of its investment fund in private finance initiative projects, the Secondary Market Infrastructure Fund (SMIF). NM Rothschild has been appointed to conduct the rev... [more]

Greene King is to acquire Hardys & Hansons, the Nottingham-based brewer and chain of 260 pubs, for £270m. The company expects that the acquisition will meet its cost of capital within a year as well a... [more]

Flomerics is to acquire NIKA, the German software company with 68 staff, for an initial £8m.... [more]

Freshwater has acquired Clear, the London-based provider of consultancy and training services with nine staff.... [more]

Alstom Energy Recovery Systems, the Ealing-based manufacturer of heat exchange equipment, has undergone a management buy-out from Alstom Group.... [more]

Cobham has acquired Domo, the Hampshire-based provider of wireless digital video surveillance technology with 21 staff, for up to £10m.... [more]

Cybit Holdings has acquired Bluefinger, the Somerset-based vehicle and maritime telematics company, for £1.6m.... [more]

Genus has sold its SyAqua shrimps business in Brazil to a management buy-out for £3.2m.... [more]

Expro International has acquired PWS, the provider of well testing services to the global oil and gas industry, for £366m.... [more]

Colliers CRE has acquired Locum Consulting Group, the Haywards Heath-based consultancy with 20 staff, for £2m. Locum is a specialist consultancy practice, advising owners, managers and developers on s... [more]

Begbies Traynor has acquired Wilson Pitts, the Leeds-based corporate and personal insolvency firm with 17 staff, for an initial £1.1m.... [more]

Wensum Company has sold its menswear business to a new company called Wensum Tailoring for £0.5m, in order to focus on its Wensum Corporate uniforms business.... [more]

ECHG, the English Churches Housing Group, is to merge with The Riverside Group later this year, creating a new Liverpool-based national housing association, but up to 175 ECHG jobs will be lost in Lei... [more]

Empiredirect has bought six Miller Brothers electrical stores out of administration, securing 100 jobs in Bolton, Derby, Wetherby, Dudley, Loughborough and Romford.... [more]

Celsis International is to acquire In Vitro Technologies, the US provider of testing products and services to the pharmaceutical industry, for £16m.... [more]

Axa is to acquire Winterthur, the Swiss insurance company with an office in Basingstoke, from Credit Suisse for £5.4bn.... [more]

Barratt Developments is to acquire Squire Bridge, the Guildford-based property developer, for £25m.... [more]