Laird Group has acquired Antenex, the US manufacturer of wireless communications antennae with 80 staff, for £8.6m.... [more]

Vp has acquired Bukom General Oilfield Services, the supplier of compressors, boilers, heat exchangers and other equipment, for £5.7m, in order to expand its Airpac division.... [more]

Dunn-Line, the bus and coach operator, is to be acquired by Veolia Transport UK for £9.7m.... [more]

Bright Futures, the mobility retailer, is to sell its trading subsidiaries - including Cascade Ventures, Mobility Group, Youreable, Scootermart Mobility Centres and Ortho-Kinetics - to Sussex Wellbein... [more]

TD Bingham and Nickson Davis have merged to create a combined Liverpool-based civil and structural engineering group with 40 staff.... [more]

Buckingham Foods, the sandwich manufacturer, has been acquired by Food Investment Group with the support of Duke Street Capital.... [more]

John Menzies has acquired Aeroground, the US air cargo services handling company with 1,200 staff at nine airports, for £16m.... [more]

Octopus Asset Management has backed the £7.5m management buy-out of 110 franchised Perfect Pizza outlets from Papa John's.... [more]

Struggling healthcare group Provalis is considering the sale of its medical diagnostics division and winding up the company.... [more]

The mystery bidder for House of Fraser, the £300m department store group, has been revealed as Apax Partners, the private equity group. Apax may also put forward a counter-bid for Chorion, the intelle... [more]

Antalis is to sell its two envelope manufacturing plants in Aberdeen and Dagenham to Mayer-Kuvert of Germany for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Northern Bank has sold its mortgage, deposit and current account operations in the Isle of Man to the Isle of Man Bank for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Mitie has acquired Initial Security, the manned guarding business of Rentokil Initial that has 6,000 staff at 18 branches, for £75m.... [more]

Marine Harvest, the fish farming company, has been sold by Nutreco to Geveran Trading of Norway in a £805m deal.... [more]

Street CraneXpress of Sheffield has acquired Integral Cradles, the London-based facade access supplier.... [more]

Portman Building Society has agreed to acquire the Lambeth Building Society, which has 130 staff at nine southern branches.... [more]

Berkeley Berry Birch has sold Berkeley Independent Advisers and Berry Birch Noble Financial Planning to Tenet Group of Leeds for up to £2.3m.... [more]

Vodafone Group Plc has announced it is in talks to sell its Japanese segment, which is experiencing a decline in profitability. Vodafone has been under pressure from its shareholders for failing to tu... [more]

Rank has been forced to write down its DVD-making business, Deluxe Media Services, by a further £80m after warning it may take another year to exit the loss-making division. The leisure group, which l... [more]

Philip Green has been keeping quiet about whether he has been touting his BHS clothing chain for sale. The Monaco-based billionaire is understood to have spoken to rivals, including Wal-Mart Store Inc... [more]