Leeds Building Society has won approval to merge with Mercantile, the Wallsend-based building society with 12 branches.... [more]

Deans Foods is to merge with Stonegate to create a combined egg supply group called Noble Foods.... [more]

Candover Partners is to acquire DX Services for £349m, and will merge it with Secure Mail Services to create a combined mail delivery business with 1,840 staff. The offer consists of 415p a share and ... [more]

Brodies is to merge with Bishops Solicitors of Glasgow, creating a combined legal firm with more than 360 staff.... [more]

Valpak has acquired the Waste Management Group's waste plastics sorting site in Preston, in order to expand its Valient Recycling operation.... [more]

Co-operative Group has acquired 30 Gordon Davis pharmacies in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire and ten Raygale Chemists in the north-east, taking its total network to 429 branches.... [more]

Metal Bulletin is to merge with Wilmington to create a combined £330m London-based business information and training company called Bulletin Group.... [more]

Sykes Group has acquired Bennetts Typewriter & Office Supplies to create a combined Nottingham-based office products business with more than 70 staff.... [more]

SQW is to merge with Oxford Innovation to create a company called SQW Group with 150 staff, in order to operate a chain of innovation centres and advise local authorities in encouraging small 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]

Broker Network Holdings is to acquire the general insurance business of Towry Law for £12m, creating a new subsidiary with offices in Birmingham, Bracknell, Glasgow, Leeds, Leominster and London. The ... [more]

Pan Fish, the Norwegian fish farming company, may have to dispose of some of its UK businesses to satisfy the OFT following its merger. The merger will make Pan Fish the world's largest fish farming c... [more]

Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Methuen Drama for £2.3m, in order to expand its A&C Black subsidiary.... [more]

T Jolly Services, the Lancashire-based building contractor with 140 staff, has merged with Norman Peplow Electrical, the Preston-based company with 19 staff.... [more]

Costcutter is planning to merge with Nisa-Today's, creating a combined convenience stores and wholesaling group with annual turnover of about £1.5bn.... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired two online media businesses for £46m, including dating company Allegran and automotive advertiser Data Media & Retail, in order to expand its Associated Newspap... [more]

CareTech has acquired 14 residential care homes in Staffordshire from Delam Care for £8.1m, taking its total number of sites to 78.... [more]

PJ Musgrave of Matlock has merged with Paul Adams of the West Midlands to create a combined electrical services contractor called PJM Adams with more than 70 staff.... [more]

Irwin Mitchell is to merge with Alexander Harris of Altrincham to create a combined law firm with 1,860 staff throughout the UK and Spain.... [more]

Wylie & Bisset has acquired John Gray & Co of Port Glasgow, creating a combined accountancy group with more than 100 staff.... [more]