Ford is to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover car manufacturing operations to Tata of India for £1bn, securing the future of 13,500 jobs at sites including Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Halewood until at ... [more]

Bowmark Capital, the private equity group, has put its Education & Adventure Travel Group on the market for a potential sale price of at least £100m. Education & Adventure Travel Group specialises in ... [more]

Lord Group, the Rochdale-based building refurbishment firm with 125 staff, has been acquired by Kinetics Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Skipton Building Society has sold its Direct Life & Pension Services subsidiary to Cardif Pinnacle, in order to focus on savings and lending, mortgage servicing, estate agency, financial advice and da... [more]

RPS has acquired OIL, the Aberdeen-based oil and gas exploration and production consultancy, for up to £6.5m.... [more]

Smiths News has acquired a 50% stake in Rascal Solutions, the supplier of inventory management solutions to magazine retailers, for £3m.... [more]

Network Group Holdings is to acquire a 67% stake in Pertemps People Development Group, the West Midlands-based recruitment and training firm with 650 staff, in a £18m reverse takeover.... [more]

Balfour Beatty has acquired Dean & Dyball, the construction company with offices in Ringwood, Exeter, Bristol, Maidstone, Birmingham, Swansea and Stevenage, for £45m.... [more]

WH Smith has acquired the United News chain of 80 hospital newsagents and coffee shops for £19m, and has also announced plans to open 29 stores at RoadChef motorway service areas.... [more]

Smiths Group has acquired Fiberod, the US supplier of oil and gas lifting equipment with 150 staff, as well as Indufil, the Dutch petrochemical filters company with 95 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Joynes Pike, the engineering consultancy with 170 staff in Nottingham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Doncaster, Warrington, Stoke, Wetherby and Shoreham, has been acquired by of New Zealand for more tha... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) may sell NIG, its commercial insurance underwriting division, later this year once its cost-cutting restructuring has finished. Discussions with potential buyers were susp... [more]

Felix Group is to acquire Crawshaw Butchers, the chain of 14 butcher shops in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humberside, for £12m.... [more]

CVS has acquired the small animal and equine business of Animed LLP for £1.6m, including 44 staff at five veterinary practices in South Hampshire.... [more]

RPS has acquired WTW & Associates, the Hampshire-based provider of oil and gas exploration technical services, for £1.9m.... [more]

Vantis has acquired the non-audit business of Marlow-based Brewer Higgins for an initial £0.4m.... [more]

Southern Cross Healthcare has acquired a 62-bed care home on Merseyside, as well as the leases of three other homes with 195 beds.... [more]

Brotherton Speciality Products, the Wakefield-based chemicals company with about 50 staff, has been acquired by Esseco Group of Italy for undisclosed terms.... [more]

T Jolly, the building services contractor with 188 staff in Preston, Blackpool, Bolton and Wigan, has sold a majority stake in the business to NBGI Private Equity for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Williams & Griffin, the Colchester department store, has been acquired by Fenwick for undisclosed terms.... [more]