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]

Reed Elsevier has received up to 12 bids in the first-round of offers for its Reed Business Information arm. The division has been valued at £1bn and £1.25bn.It is thought that US publishing giant McG... [more]

Heavylift Technical Services, the Stansted-based aircraft engineering services firm trading as HTS Worldwide, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

ABC Learning Centres Limited has announced that an agreement had been reached for the sale of Busy Bees Childcare Vouchers Limited (BBCV), its UK voucher business, for £90m to Computershare Limited. T... [more]

Mfonex is to transfer its head office from Oxfordshire to West Yorkshire following the acquisition of Cleckheaton-based Insight Marketing and Inspire Telecom for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Endeavors, the software firm with 54 staff in North Yorkshire and the US, has been sold out of administration by KPMG to a new company called Acresail.... [more]

The Co-operative Group (CWS) has appointed investment bank, Credit Suisse, to handle the sale of 107 Somerfield stores. CWS have already contacted several parties asking for expressions of interest. T... [more]

Global EPP, the Leicester-based engineering plastics company, has been bought out of administration by Schwartz Technical Plastics of Germany, securing the future of 80 jobs.... [more]

Prestige Industrial, the Blackburn-based baking equipment manufacturer with 103 staff, has been bought out of administration by Fluorocarbon Holdings.... [more]

Netstore, the IT security and outsourcing company, is to be acquired by 2e2 Group for about £58m.... [more]

BAA's ownership of the main three airports in South East England, and the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports in Scotland, is being questioned after the Competition Commission reportedly decided ... [more]

First Artist has acquired SpotCo, the US marketing and entertainment agency, for £10m, and will combine it with its London-based Dewynters division.... [more]