Eleco is to acquire Milbury Systems, the concrete products manufacturer with 53 staff at sites in Bristol and Lydney, for £7m.... [more]

Ultra Electronics has acquired Atkins & Partners, the Doncaster-based supplier of software solutions for emergency planning, for £4m.... [more]

Parthenon Entertainment, the independent TV production company, is to be acquired by Jersey-based venture capitalist Arkaga.... [more]

Giles Insurance Brokers has acquired Hedges & Rose, the Llantrisant-based insurance firm with 24 staff.... [more]

South Lakeland Group, the chain of nine holiday parks in the Lake District and Morecambe Bay, has been acquired by White Ocean Leisure for £125m.... [more]

Centrica plc today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Direct Energy Marketing Limited, has made an agreed offer to acquire all outstanding common shares of Rockyview Energy Inc., for a total ... [more]

Avacta Group is to acquire Oxford Medical Diagnostics, the gas-detection technology company, for an initial £3m.... [more]

Scottish & Southern Energy is to acquire Slough Heat & Power, the 80MW biomass energy plant in Slough with 140 staff, for £49m.... [more]

Ennstone Johnston has acquired Waveney Asphalt, the Suffolk-based surfacing contractor, for up to £3.2m.... [more]

Ponden Mill, the West Yorkshire-based chain of 250 home furnishings stores with more than 1,400 staff, has been acquired by Agilo.... [more]

Greene King has acquired New Century Inns, the Teesside-based chain of 49 pubs, for £33m.... [more]

Unilever is to sell its Lawry's and Adolph's seasonings and marinades business in the US and Canada to McCormick for £290m.... [more]

ESRI (UK), the market leader in enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions, has entered into an asset purchase agreement to buy the Geospatial Solutions Division (GSD) of Tadpole Technol... [more]

Adnams, the Southwold brewery, has appointed agents Christie & Co to sell nine of its pubs. The company, which has a portfolio of 80 public houses, said it had identified the nine suitable for disposa... [more]

Northern Bear has acquired Jennings Properties, the Leeds-based roofing contractor, for up to £5.1m.... [more]

Interior Services Group has acquired Pearce Group, the Bristol-based construction firm with 350 staff, for an initial £13m.... [more]

Media Corporation has acquired Interactive Consulting, the internet advertising firm trading as Nash Digital, for £0.2m.... [more]

Wyndeham Press has sold its Visual Communications business to a management buy-out, including five printing and packaging design divisions with about 300 staff.... [more]

ATG Airports has bought Alstom Airport Lighting, the Warwickshire-based manufacturer of airport lighting systems, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Lavendon has acquired the DK Rental powered lifting equipment business in Spain, Belgium and France for £61m, including 2,700 vehicles and seven depots.... [more]