Energy Cranes, the Aberdeen-based crane services company with 1,700 staff, has been acquired by Close Brothers Private Equity for £142m.... [more]

Cluttons has sold its rural property business, including 49 staff and offices in Bath, Oxford, Maidstone and Sutton Scotney, to Smiths Gore, in order to focus on its residential and commercial operati... [more]

Dutch chemicals and paint giant, Akzo Nobel, has put its UK business, Crown Paints, on the market for up to £200m.Investment bank, Greenhill, have been appointed to find buyers for Lancashire-based Cr... [more]

Pontin's, the British holiday village operator, has been sold for £46m to a company headed by Graham Parr, the entrepreneur who previously owned the business in the 1980s.Pontin's is in the process of... [more]

Close Brothers has acquired Commercial Acceptances Group for £31m and Amber Credit for £2m, in order to expand its banking subsidiary.... [more]

Giles Insurance Brokers has acquired DS Howell, the Tonyrefail-based insurance broker with 17 staff.... [more]

Pontin's, the chain of seven holiday camps, has been acquired by a former chief executive for £46m.... [more]

Tomcat Systems, the Belfast-based medical IT company with 25 staff, has been acquired by Philips for undisclosed terms, and will become part of Philips' Healthcare Informatics division.... [more]

JT Morgan, the Swansea department store, has been bought out of administration by a management team.... [more]

Bibby Financial Services has bought Siemens Financial Services' single invoice factoring business for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Country Valley Foods has acquired the Billingham division of Cocked Hat Farm Foods, with the transfer of 20 staff.... [more]

Brewer Consulting, the London-based construction law consultancy, has been acquired by FTI Consulting of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

JP Morgan has acquired ClimateCare, the Oxford-based carbon offsetting business, for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Environmental Markets operation.... [more]

Skipton Building Society has acquired an 86% stake in Torquil Clark, the independent financial adviser with 120 staff in Wolverhampton and the Lake District.... [more]

Cyril Sweett has acquired Nisbet, the quantity surveying and project management firm with 12 partners and 88 staff at offices in the Midlands and South, for £5.9m.... [more]

Pennon Group has acquired Shore Recycling, the electrical equipment recycling firm with sites in Perth, Manchester and St Helens, for £23m.... [more]

Crisp Thinking of Leeds has acquired IMSafer, the US supplier of child protection software for the internet, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Triton Group has acquired Dynamic Positioning Services, the Aberdeen-based oil services firm with 30 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Pland Stainless, the stainless steel products manufacturer with 70 staff in Leeds and Glasgow, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Wastecare has acquired E Pease & Sons, the Leeds-based industrial packaging recycling and reconditioning firm that will now trade as PackCare, for undisclosed terms.... [more]