Rygor Commercials, the chain of Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle dealerships in London, Berkshire and Wiltshire, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Total Laminate Systems, the Thame-based panelling manufacturer, has undergone a £1.7m management buy-out.... [more]

Lloyd Maunder has sold its 13 butcher shops in Devon and Cornwall to a management buy-out operating under the name of West Country Family Butchers.... [more]

UK-listed brewer and pub operator, Cains Beer Company, has already received interest from more than a dozen potential bidders after having fallen into administration last week.PricewaterhouseCoopers a... [more]

JSM Property has acquired Mitchells Residential of Norwich and now has almost 4,000 residential properties under management in East Anglia.... [more]

Oddbins, the chain of 150 off-licence stores, has been sold by Castel Freres of France to a group led by the son of its former owner for undisclosed terms.... [more]

MUI, a listed business in Malaysia, is looking at selling of some of its poor-performing hotels located in the UK as the group continues to review its hotel business. MUI now runs 13 hotels - 11 in t... [more]

Chess Telecom has acquired Puma Telecom of Hemel Hempstead and Sunstone of Milton Keynes, gaining access to about 800 business customers.... [more]

Oddbins, the UK-based chain of wine shops, has changed hands for an undisclosed sum, the Daily Telegraph reported. The report quoted Simon Baile, who headed the consortium that acquired Oddbins. Baile... [more]

Spiritel has acquired ED Communications, the network services firm, for up to £3m.... [more]

Barclays Bank is to sell Barclays Life Assurance Company to Swiss Reinsurance for £753m, including 760,000 life insurance policies, pension policies and annuity contracts.... [more]

AG Barr has agreed to acquired Groupe Rubicon, the branded juice drinks supplier with 97 staff in North London and Gwent, for £60m.... [more]

Southern Bear is to acquire Fenhams, the Newcastle-based building maintenance and central heating systems firm with 190 staff, for an initial £3.7m.... [more]

BemroseBooth, the print services company with 600 staff in Derby, Hull and Teesside, has been acquired by US private equity firm American Industrial Acquisition Corporation.... [more]

Independent Living Services has acquired Shield Care, the Aberdeenshire-based provider of care services with 90 staff, taking its annual turnover to £13m.... [more]

Baqus has acquired Sworn King, the High Wycombe-based quantity surveying firm, for £0.4m.... [more]

McGrigors has acquired the commercial litigation and real estate divisions of London Reid Minty, with the transfer of 18 staff.... [more]

The livingstone brothers, two of the UK's biggest property investors, have put a £400m portfolio of care homes on the market in what could be one of the biggest property deals of the year. ... [more]

Qinetiq Group is to acquire Dominion Technology Resources, the US supplier of intelligence products with about 100 staff, for £53m.... [more]

Hilden Manufacturing, the Accrington-based textile manufacturer, has been bought out of administration by Vision Support Services, saving about 40 jobs.... [more]