Pasta King, the Newton Abbot-based chilled meals supplier with 40 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Dairygold Food Ingredients has acquired Dan Dairies, the Leeds-based soft cheese company with 14 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Wisden is to acquire Hawk-Eye, the ball tracking system used by broadcasters of tennis and cricket matches, from Tinopolis for about £5m.... [more]

Heinz has sold the Linda McCartney vegetarian ready meals brand to Hain Celestial Group of the US for about £10m.... [more]

Babcock International has acquired the ABB high-voltage power lines and mobile telecoms business in South Africa for £4.5m.... [more]

Savills has acquired Hamilton Osborne King, the Irish commercial property company with 250 staff, for £34m.... [more]

The sale of London City Airport is tipped to begin this week, with owner Dermot Desmond seeking to take advantage of the current climate of interest in British airports. Morgan Stanley, who are handli... [more]

Maintel has acquired District Holdings, the established telecoms equipment supplier, for £1.025m. Maintel is a telecommunications and data services company whose headquarters is already based next doo... [more]

European Motor Holdings has acquired a Land Rover car dealership in St Helens from Hartwell for £0.5m.... [more]

Careforce has acquired Sycamore Rise, the provider of domiciliary care services with 150 staff at sites in Burnley, Clitheroe and St Anne's, for up to £1.5m. Careforce will pay £1.4m in cash, with the... [more]

DIC Entertainment has acquired CPG, the London-based licensing agency operating in the entertainment and sports industries, for an initial £3.8m. A further amount will be paid subject to CPG's perform... [more]

Specialist travel provider Travelzest is to acquire Fair's Fare, the Ealing-based travel planning company, for £3.9m. The acquisition will take the form of £1.25m in cash, £2m in loan notes and the re... [more]

Findel has acquired Letterbox Mail Order, the Cornwall-based mail order and online retailer of children's gifts and toys, for £7m in cash. Findel is a home shopping and educational supplies group base... [more]

Curidium, the London-based drug discovery company, is to be acquired by Aim-listed Cielo Holdings in a £3.9m reverse takeover.... [more]

Filtronic is to sell most of its wireless infrastructure division to Powerwave Technologies of the US for £184m, and has also announced plans to spend £45m expanding its semiconductor factory in Newto... [more]

Rentokil Initial is to sell its US-based manned guarding operations to Allied Security Holdings for £40m.... [more]

Peter Wilkinson, the CEO of listed UK IT group InTechnology has revealed that the company is open to offers for its UK distribution unit. Analysts predict that US groups Tech Data and Ingram Micro wou... [more]

Seymour Pierce, the London-based stockbroker, is rumoured to have made an approach to a potential buyer via its financial advisors. It has been reported that the executive chairman Keith Harris has be... [more]

Unilever, the listed UK/ Dutch consumer products and food group, is tipped to sell its home-cleaning business following the auction its frozen foods business. The main bidders for the frozen foods div... [more]

Sunshine Gas, the listed Australian energy company, is tipped to divest either its UK owned subsidiary Sunshine Oil plc, or its Australian division. The company is thought to be focused on developing ... [more]