Acquisition Resources

Porvair has purchased Seal Analytical, the West Sussex-based manufacturer of water quality analysis equipment, for £3.8m.... [more]

Pindar is going to sell its Pindar Set directory printing business to Yell. There are no plans for changes to the 1,600 staff or the directory production site in Scarborough.... [more]

ID Support Services, the Manchester-based CCTV and air conditioning group with 230 staff, has been bought by private equity firm, Penta Capital Partners, for £25m.... [more]

Phoenix Childcare, based in Tiverton, has purchased the Oakwood Court residential care unit in Dawlish and the Eldra Court care home in Teignmouth for about £3.6m.... [more]

BT Group has bought Ufindus, the online business directory with 300 staff in Lancaster, Chorley, Blackpool, Barrow and Huddersfield, from Iomart for £20m.... [more]

International Asset Management, the London-based hedge funds firm with 60 staff, is to undergo a management buy-out from Fortis.... [more]

Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) has put three of its UK businesses up for sale two years after entering the UK market. Lexicon Partners are acting as advisors for the sale. IAG, the home and car i... [more]

Concateno, the UK's largest drug and alcohol testing group, has received several bid approaches. The company has hired UBS to assess options including a possible sale of the business.A potential sell... [more]

GK Raw & Co, the Harrogate-based joinery and building firm with 30 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Rolls-Royce is to buy Scandinavian Electric Holding, the Norwegian supplier of diesel-electric marine propulsion systems, for £43m.... [more]

Inmarsat, the UK-listed satellite communications provider has received a takeover offer from Harbinger Capital, the activist American hedge fund investor.There is no certainty that a formal bid will b... [more]

KPMG Restructuring partners, Mark Firmin and Richard Fleming, have sold the entire share capital of listed holding company ScS Upholstery's sole trading subsidiary, A Share & Sons (trading as 'ScS'), ... [more]

Danoptra has bought the pub gaming machines business of Inspired Gaming, including 30,000 machines and 850 employees.... [more]

Shearings Holidays has bought the George Hotel in Chollerford, Northumberland, the Eden Arms Hotel near Durham and the St George Hotel in Harrogate, as part of a £25m expansion plan.... [more]

Four Seasons Group has acquired HM Air Cooling, the High Wycombe-based air conditioning firm, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Aldgate Capital is to buy 31 Shipleys gaming machine arcades, through the £25m acquisition of HJM Caterers and E&J Hall Investments.... [more]

Bunzl is to buy A&E Russell, the Glasgow-based supplier of personal protection products with 11 sites nationwide and estimated gross assets of £10m.... [more]

Brakes is to buy Woodward Foodservice, the food wholesaler with eight distribution centres in the Midlands, the North, Scotland and Wales, from Baugur for £20m.... [more]

Kallo Foods has acquired So Good, the soya products brand, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

NBC Universal and private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group are going to purchase the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications.The deal is reported to have been worth almost £1.8bn.Th... [more]