Acquisition Resources

Anaco Systems, the Wirral-based manufacturer of aluminium building facades, doors and windows with 70 employees, has undergone a £1.8m partial management buy-out.... [more]

Galloway Group, the ventilation ductwork contractor with 300 employees in Dewsbury, Dundee and London, has undergone a management buy-out for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Centristic, the South Devon-based engineering firm with 30 employees, has been acquired by Waldegrave of Twickenham for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Smith Cooper has bought Andersons KBS, the Birmingham-based accountancy firm with 12 employees.... [more]

TV production company, Carnival Film & Television, has been bought by NBC Universal for £22m.... [more]

Cobham is going to buy GMS, the US supplier of surveillance equipment with 50 employees, for £14m.... [more]

The Competition Commission has recommended that BAA sells two of its three airports in the South East - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, and one of its two airports in Glasgow and Edinburgh.The recomme... [more]

Akzo Nobel has sold Crown Paints, its paint manufacturing business with 1,500 staff at factories in Darwen and Hull, to a management buy-out backed by private equity firm Endless for £70m.... [more]

Aggreko is to acquire Power Plus, the Canadian power equipment rental company, for up to £20m.... [more]

Carterbar has acquired Graeme Watson Independent Financial Advisers of Chopwell, and is now seeking further acquisitions in Tyne & Wear.... [more]

Woolworths have seen their shares increase after the troubled retailer said it had rejected a takeover bid for its 815 stores from Iceland.The offer from a consortium headed by Mr Walker of Iceland,... [more]

Synchronica is to acquire the operating subsidiary of AxisMobile, funded by a £5m share placing, as part of a strategy to create a market leader in mobile email and synchronisation solutions.... [more]

Datumpress, the Hatfield-based printing firm with 13 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Floors 2 Go, the chain of 80 flooring stores, has been bought out of administration by its original founder operating under the name of Floor My Home, securing the future of 300 jobs.... [more]

Britain’s largest proposed offshore wind farms are to be sold off less than a year after the Christofferson Robb hedge fund purchased the project.Christofferson Robb, based in London and New York, pai... [more]

ClinPhone, the Nottingham-based clinical trials technology company, is to be acquired by Parexel of the US for £91m.... [more]

Selwood has acquired Proplant, the plant hire firm with four depots in South Wales and South West England.... [more]

DCC has announced that its GB Oils subsidiary will acquire the trade and assets of Chevron UK Equity Distributor, the fuel distributor with 26 sites and 356 staff in southern England and Wales.... [more]

Raiseprint has merged with Millprint to create a combined Keighley-based printing group with 34 staff and annual turnover of £2.6m.... [more]

Faith, the chain of 85 footwear stores and 130 concessions, is considering plans for a management buy-out.... [more]