Acquisition Resources

FXOnline, the Japanese foreign exchange trading firm with 45 employees, is going to sell an 87% stake in the business to IG Group, for £112m.... [more]

St Ives is to dispose of its Dutch music and multimedia business to management in a deal worth £2.1m.... [more]

Folder Media has bought Fun Radio, the children's broadcaster, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Griffiths & Armour is to sell its financial services division to Charles Stanley. 35 Liverpool-based employees will be transferred.... [more]

TRO, the events agency with 150 staff in Norwich and Wymondham, has been bought by CPM Group for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

AESSEAL is to transfer production of some mechanical seals from India to Rotherham following the acquisition of Standard Seals of India. AESSEAL has also purchased US-based Mechanical Seal & Service ... [more]

Archbold Logistics has bought Direct Pallet Services, the Nuneaton-based transport firm with 52 employees and 30 vehicles.... [more]

Ultima Networks has purchased JCS for £300k, in order to expand its Cognito legal software division.... [more]

France-based RIBER has bought Oxford Instruments' Molecular Beam Epitaxy service and support business for £300k.... [more]

Brulines is going to buy Edensure, the Sunderland-based supplier of fuel monitoring technology with 11 employees, for £200k.... [more]

Charteris has bought SIG Consulting, the business solutions consultancy with offices in Hertfordshire and County Durham, in a deal worth £1.9m.... [more]

Keycom is to buy MCW Group, the supplier of broadband services to students, for £2.1m.... [more]

Heaven nightclub in central London has been bought by MAMA Group for £600k.... [more]

Cains has been sold out of administration to its former owner. 90 jobs at its Liverpool-based brewery and nine pubs have been secured.... [more]

The Preston-based heating supplier, Home Insulation Services, will be taken over by its 200-strong workforce over the next 12 months, and the buy-out is being supported by the Baxi Partnership.... [more]

British Energy, the operator of eight nuclear power plants, is to be acquired by EDF of France for £12bn, and EDF hopes to build at least four new reactors.... [more]

Lehman Brothers has sold its equities and investment banking operations out of administration to Nomura, which might secure the future of 2,000 jobs in London.... [more]

Alliance & Leicester is to be taken over by Spanish banking giant Santander, and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander from October 10 2008, subject to High Court approval.Alliance ... [more]

UK-based component distributor, Abacus Group plc, has received a number of approaches for the company as it warned of difficult market conditions and falling sales.Abacus has appointed HSBC bank to ha... [more]

The Glasgow-based chain of coffee shops, Beanscene, is going to be bought out of administration by Fifi & Ally. The future of 130 jobs will be secured.... [more]