White Young Green has acquired Farningham McCreadie Partnership, the town planning consultancy with offices in Edinburgh and Belfast, for £2.2m.... [more]

White Young Green has acquired Tweeds, the construction consultancy with 150 staff in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Mold and the Isle of Man, for an initial £11m.... [more]

Bodycote International is to acquire Saab Metech of Sweden, ACT Laboratories of the US and Warrington Fire Research of the UK for a total £29m, in order to expand its testing division.... [more]

Supreme Care Homes, the Teesside-based operator of four care homes with 240 staff, has been acquired by Avery Healthcare of Northampton for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Boxmore Plastics has sold its Lurgan-based operation in Northern Ireland to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, and the new business will be renamed Beverage Plastics and relocated to the Silv... [more]

Independent News & Media is to acquire PropertyNews, the internet property site that covers Northern Ireland and neighbouring counties in the Republic.... [more]

Cobham has completed the sale of Wallop Defence Systems to Esterline Technologies Corporation for £44m.... [more]

Metalrax has acquired Advanced Handling, the material handling equipment manufacturer with 160 staff in Peterborough and Romania, for up to £2.2m.... [more]

APP Group has acquired Stowes the Printers of Stoke-on-Trent for undisclosed terms, creating a combined printing and publishing business with 29 staff.... [more]

SMC Group has acquired Alstop Design, the architect with offices in London, Canada, China and Singapore, for £1.8m.... [more]

MJ Gleeson is to sell its rail engineering business to Morgan Sindall for £23m, with the transfer of 143 staff.... [more]

Jacksons Jolliffe Cork has sold Fawcetts Quality Butchers, the Sunderland-based chain of 19 butchers and delicatessens, out of administration to management for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Belden CDT has sold its Manchester-based cables factory to management for £16m, securing the future of 230 jobs, and it will trade as B3 Cable Solutions.... [more]

Harvestime, the Walsall-based bakery, has been acquired by Canadian Maple Leaf Bakery UK, securing the future of 250 jobs.... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust is to sell its Aberdeen Journals publishing business to DC Thomson for £132m, and has also announced plans to combine Northcliffe and Associated Newspapers into a single div... [more]

Systems Union Group, the listed UK-based computer software group, confirmed that it is in discussions which could produce an offer to buy the company. 'As part of its strategic growth objectives and i... [more]

Adept Telecom is to acquire Admiral Managed Networks, the fixed-line telecoms reseller, for up to £1.6m.... [more]

IMEX has acquired DWJ Colourprint, the commercial printing company with sites in Port Talbot and Baglan, for undisclosed terms, and will consolidate the business at its site in Swansea this summer.... [more]

Wyndeham Press, the printing company, is set to be acquired by Dagsbrun of Iceland for £81m.... [more]

Savills has acquired Blair Kirkman, the retail property company, for about £10m, and 26 staff will relocate to Savills' Grosvenor Hill office in London in May.... [more]