Accuma is to expand its personal debt advice business with the acquisition of Byrom & Keeley Financial Services for £5.8m and Loan Line for £10m.... [more]

ADDleisure is to acquire a 90% stake in the In Moments company, in order to expand its fitness equipment business into high street fitness centres.... [more]

GAP Group has acquired J&S Plant of Lincoln for £1.3m, taking its plant hire network to 56 sites. Gap will pay £550k for equity, £350k for goodwill and will assume £450k of debt. J&S Plant is the plan... [more]

NTR has acquired Wastelink and RU Recycling for undisclosed terms, in order to create the UK's largest recycling-led waste management business.... [more]

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]