Cookson Group is to sell its Hi-Tech Ceramics filters business, which has annual sales of £5m, to Sud-Chemie, in order to win regulatory approval for its acquisition of Foseco.... [more]

Syntax, the Derby-based IT and technical recruitment consultancy, has merged with Arcanza IT Services of Derby and Software Training Services of Heanor.... [more]

JT Atkinson & Sons has acquired Hathaway & Hoyle Timber Merchants of Stockton-on-Tees, taking its chain to eight branches.... [more]

GlaxoSmithKline is to acquire Biotene, the dry-mouth treatment, from Laclede of the US for £100m, in order to expand its consumer healthcare business.... [more]

Evolution Group is to acquire the investment management business of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of about 40 staff to its London office.... [more]

Vitec Group has acquired certain assets of Technologies Talkdynamics, the Canadian software development company, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Saint Gobain Crystals is to sell its quartz products factory in Wallsend to Heraeus Quarzglas of Germany, securing 125 jobs, but a further 23 jobs in the industrial testing products department will be... [more]

Auto Assist of Hull has merged with RVM Assist of Leeds to create a combined vehicle accident management and claims handling group called RVM Auto Assist.... [more]

Fuse8 has acquired Radiant, the Leeds-based public relations agency with four staff.... [more]

Darnton Elgee has merged with Essex, Goodman & Suggitt to create a combined project management group with 87 staff at offices in North Yorkshire, London, Bristol and Warwickshire.... [more]

Piano Logistics has bought Butler Piano Movers of Huntingdon out of voluntary liquidation for undisclosed terms.... [more]

The Co-operative's takeover of Somerfield has been given the go-ahead by the Office of Fair Trading, on the condition that they sell off 126 local stores.The OFT are concerned that the deal would hav... [more]

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The supplier of plastic cards to the Government and other major companies, ID Data, is deemed likely to go into administration after being affected by the credit crunch.The Hampshire-based company, wh... [more]

Oval has acquired Powell Insurance, the Liverpool-based insurance broker with 40 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Centrica has acquired Building Management System Integrators, the supplier of building control systems with 69 staff in Slough, London, Hove, Banbury and Chester, for £7m.... [more]

Sert UK has acquired M&S Toiletries, the Wakefield-based supplier of health and beauty products with 140 staff, from the Scottish & Midland Co-operative Society for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Le Frog Bistro, the chain of five French restaurants located in the North-West, has gone into administration. Begbies Traynor are managing the administration of the Le Frog outlets and have appointed ... [more]

Food & Drink Group (FDG), parent company of the Jamies Bars and Henry J Bean's chains, has sold 17 of its 28 outlets to Mainpaint, a new company backed by NBGI Private Equity and headed by Nick Tambly... [more]