Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons has merged with Wiltshire-based Wood Awdry & Ford to create a combined law firm with annual turnover of more than £20m.... [more]

RPS has acquired Kraan, the Dutch urban estate management and environmental consultancy with 65 staff, for £4.8m.... [more]

James Fisher & Sons has acquired JCM Scotload, the Aberdeen-based manufacturer of load measurement instruments with 11 staff, for £3m.... [more]

Ladbrokes has acquired the Eastwood chain of 54 betting shops in Northern Ireland for £117m.... [more]

PaperCo has acquired Donington Packaging, the Lincolnshire-based industrial packaging supplier with 12 staff and annual turnover of £4m.... [more]

Healthcare Homes, the Nursing home group, could be up for sale for an estimated £80m. The company's owners, including the private equity firm, August Equity, have appointed investment bank, NM Rothsch... [more]

Fenner has acquired Prodesco, the US textile engineering company, for an initial £24m.... [more]

RR Foodbox, the Keighley-based packaging manufacturer with 40 staff, has been acquired by Avro Industries of Cambridge.... [more]

Intertek has acquired Epsilon Technical Services, the Chester-based safety testing and advisory services firm with 24 staff, for an initial £1.8m.... [more]

Whitmarsh Sterland is to merge with Streets to create a combined accountancy group with almost 200 staff in Cambridge, St Neots, Newmarket, London, Hull, Peterborough, Grantham, Lincoln and Retford.... [more]

Fraser Dawbarns is to merge with Waterman Cheetham to create a combined law firm with 110 staff at offices in King's Lynn, Wisbech, Downham Market, March and Peterborough.... [more]

David McLean has sold its Deeside-based Bluegreen architectural and engineering operation to Calderpeel.... [more]

NSG, the Deeside-based scaffolding firm with 350 staff, has been acquired by MWB Associates for £4.3m.... [more]

Darlingtons Group, the transport and warehousing firm with 100 staff in the Wirral and Glossop, has undergone a £1.1m management buy-out.... [more]

Chess Group has acquired ESE Scotland, the Livingston-based property services firm, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Polypipe Sanitary Systems has undergone a management buy-out from Polypipe Group, including manufacturing sites at Dukinfield in Manchester and Warmsworth in Yorkshire.... [more]

Palmer & Harvey McLane has acquired Northrealm, the holding company of Leeds-based wholesale group WH & HM Youngs, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

CeNeS, the pharmaceuticals developer, is in discussions which could lead to a sale of the UK company.... [more]

Setmasters, the Dorset-based printing machinery manufacturer with 11 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management team, and will be renamed BCB Professional Finishing Solutions.... [more]

Bloxwich Engineering has been bought out of administration by Sonas, and the work will be transferred to sites in Birmingham and France with the loss of up to 100 jobs in Walsall.... [more]