One of the UK’s largest housebuilders, Barratt Developments, is mulling a £250m sale of its commercial property division, Wilson Bowden Developments. The sale would reduce the debt generated as a resu... [more]

CeNes, the Cambridge-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer with 15 staff, is to be acquired by Paion of Germany for £11m.... [more]

Oxford Instruments has acquired Technologies & Devices International, the US developer of Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy technology, for an initial £500k.... [more]

Intertek has bought 4-Front Research, the Cheshire-based provider of testing services for consumer healthcare products with 110 staff, for £6m.... [more]

Anglesey Mining will sell the Parys Mountain project in North Wales to Western Metals of Australia for £14m.... [more]

Solicitors Own Software, the Bath-based software developer with 37 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Texol Technical Solutions has been bought out of administration by Glasgow-based investment firm Symphony Equity Investment Syndicate. The future of 60 jobs have been secured at its Dundee-based engin... [more]

Johnson Service, the UK-listed dry-cleaning and workwear group, may be ready to put its Apparelmaster workwear and rentals division on the market. It has been suggested that the business could have a ... [more]

Intertek has purchased Hi-Cad Technical Services, the Dingwall-based provider of 3D data capture and measurement services with 60 staff, for £12m.... [more]

Xafinity has bought Hazell Carr, the pensions consultancy with about 400 staff in Reading, Cardiff and Stirling, for an undisclosed sum.... [more]

FD Systems has purchased BGM Business Solutions, the retail technology firm with offices in Milton Keynes and Oxford.... [more]

Dawnfresh Seafoods has acquired Scot Trout, the Bellshill-based fish processing firm with 450 staff throughout Scotland, for an undisclosed sum.... [more]

Jim Brackenridge Transport, the provider of haulage services with in Aberdeen, Cumbernauld and Lerwick, has been acquired by Inchmuir.... [more]

Black & Lizars, the Scottish chain of 25 opticians, has been sold to an investment consortium advised by Dundas & Wilson for £20m.... [more]

Longwood Joinery, the Wetherby-based joinery firm with an annual turnover of £1.8m, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Grontmij has acquired Roger Preston & Partners, the Maidenhead-based building services firm with anannual turnover of £12m.... [more]

Cash Generator, the chain of 73 second-hand stores, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, The chain plans to expand to 160 outlets over the next five years.... [more]

Amec is to purchase Smith Williams Consultants, the US environmental and geotechnical mining consultancy with 36 staff, for £3.2m.... [more]

Flowcrete, the Cheshire-based supplier of flooring systems, has been acquired by RPM of the US for about £35m.The previous owner will invest £2m starting up a new business called Barefoot Living.... [more]

Cohn & Wolfe has bought a majority stake in AxiCom, the London-based pan-European public relations agency.... [more]