Acquisition Resources

Interactive Prospect Targeting, the direct online marketing group, is to sell off its UK businesses as well as one of its French divisions after a strategic review.The decision was made after the revi... [more]

The operator of XL airlines, XL Leisure Group, which is the UK's third largest holiday group, has gone into administration.XL, which flies to 50 destinations predominantly in the Mediterranean, has re... [more]

Mr Kinnaird, the former owner of Dolcis Shoes, has teamed up with investment fund Agilo to buy Faith from administrators for an undisclosed amount. Over 2,000 jobs have been saved.Faith has 85 stores ... [more]

Aegis Group has acquired Range Online Media, the US search engine marketing agency, in order to expand its Isobar division.... [more]

John Wood Group has acquired MCS, the Irish subsea engineering consultancy with 200 staff in Galway, Aberdeen, Australia, France, Brazil, Malaysia and the US.... [more]

Topaz Computer Systems has been acquired by Leicester-based Safe Computing, creating a combined software development group with 120 staff.... [more]

Faith has been acquired by Kinnaird and investment fund Agilo for undisclosed terms, securing the future of more than 2,000 jobs at its chain of shoe shops.... [more]

French power company, EDF, is planning to sell some nuclear sites to rival firms as part of its £12bn deal to take over British Energy.It is understood that EDF may offer a stake in BE to Centrica as ... [more]

Taylor Wimpey has sold its Taylor Woodrow construction division to Vinci for £74m, in order to focus on housebuilding.... [more]

DataCash Group has acquired EasyDebit, the German payment services provider, for an initial £2.5m.... [more]

Wolviston Group has acquired Manning, the Teesside-based recruitment firm, for up to £5m, and is now looking to create up to 20 jobs and relocate to a new office.... [more]

Independent Living Services has acquired Nurseplus of Perthshire and The Complete Care Company of Ayrshire, creating an enlarged care homes group with more than 1,000 staff.... [more]

GKN, the UK-based engineering company, is due to finalise plans to acquire a significant part of the manufacturing site at Filton owned by the French aircraft company, Airbus, after securing about £60... [more]

Mills Manufacturing Technology, the Leamington-based machine tool distributor with 60 staff, has undergone a £10m management buy-out backed by Barclays Leveraged Finance.... [more]

Stroud Office Interiors, the Gloucestershire-based office fit-out firm with 19 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Nationwide Building Society is to merge with the Derbyshire Building Society, which has 50 branches and 485,000 members, and the Cheshire Building Society, which has 45 branches and 440,000 members.... [more]

BevEx, the Coalville-based supplier of pub equipment with 12 staff, has been acquired by L'Isolante K-Flex of Italy for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Hiflex Fluidpower has sold its hose distribution and service assets out of administration to BMI Hose Europe, including 125 staff at 14 depots nationwide.... [more]

InfoBasis, the Abingdon-based HR software company with 31 staff, has been acquired by Salary.com of the US.... [more]

Halma has acquired Fiberguide Industries, the US optical fibre manufacturer, for £8.2m.... [more]