Moore & Smalley has merged with Lonsdale & Partners to create a combined Lancashire-based accountancy group with 200 staff.... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance has acquired Sertus Underwriting, the Irish motor and household insurance firm with gross written premiums of £11m.... [more]

Carpetright has acquired Melford Commercial Properties, the parent company of Carpetworld Manchester, from Jensen Group for £7.2m, as well as Dutch carpet retailer Ben de Graaff Tapijt for £6.3m.... [more]

Cybit Holdings has acquired Truck24, the German supplier of telematics to the logistics sector with 19 staff.... [more]

Alumasc Group has acquired Blackdown Horticultural Consultants, the Somerset-based green roof supplier, for £2m.... [more]

Porvair has acquired Toolturn Engineering, the Fareham-based engineering firm, for £1m.... [more]

Brammer has acquired CBS Rotary Power Motion, the industrial components supplier with six branches and 52 staff across the Midlands, for up to £9.5m.... [more]

John Menzies has acquired Novia Sverige, the Swedish airport ground-handling firm, for £8.7m.... [more]

Celtic Technologies, the land remediation company with offices in Cardiff, St Helens and London, has been acquired by EnGlobe of Canada for £7m.... [more]

Greenstar UK has acquired Dunstable Waste Group, the Bedfordshire-based commercial recycling firm trading as Firbank Chiltern, as part of a strategy to develop a nationwide network of waste processing... [more]

Conchango, the technology consultancy with offices in Egham, London, Aberdeen, India and the US, has been acquired by the UK arm of EMC for £42m.... [more]

The BBC has sold its outside broadcast division to Satellite Information Services for undisclosed terms, including a fleet of 15 TV production trucks.... [more]

St Ives, the UK-listed printing group, has put its Dutch CD and DVD division under review. This is because digital music sales has lessened the demand for physical products.St Ives announced the sale ... [more]

Sage Group has acquired Tekton Group, the supplier of construction software, implementation and support services, for £21m.... [more]

Servoca has acquired Academics Holdings, the Essex-based education, recruitment and training provider with 21 staff, for an initial £2m.... [more]

RPS has acquired Rudall Blanchard Associates, the supplier of health, safety and environmental services to the oil and gas sector with 54 staff at offices in London, Aberdeen, Australia and the US, fo... [more]

Capita Group has acquired HFR Holdings and Lancaster Insurance Services for £16m, in order to expand its business into classic car insurance.... [more]

Ego, the Chester-based chain of five Mediterranean-style restaurants, has undergone a management buy-in backed with up to £9.1m from private equity firm LDC, and plans to open up to ten new outlets a ... [more]

Recruit Retail Services has acquired Kennedy Clayton, the Dewsbury-based shopfitting and installation firm.... [more]

GCap Media is to accept a £375m takeover offer from Global Radio, creating a combined group with about 41% of the commercial radio market.... [more]