Southern Bear has acquired Phoenix Dynamics, the Stoke-based supplier of electronics equipment, for up to £1.5m, in order to expand its Towerinput Trading division.... [more]

Drainline UK, the Leicester-based rain repair firm, has been bought out of administration by Drainline of Western-super-Mare, securing the future of 18 jobs.... [more]

John Shreeves Holdings, the London-based project management firm with annual turnover of £2.4m, has been acquired by Hill International of the US.... [more]

Cambria Automobiles has acquired the Summit Auto Group of 15 car dealerships for undisclosed terms, including the Victor Ford, Grange, Dees Ford and Doves Volvo brands in London, Essex, Surrey, Kent, ... [more]

Supporta has acquired Hallam Healthcare, the East Midlands-based care services provider with 171 staff, for up to £4.7m.... [more]

Intertek has acquired Electrical Mechanical Instrument Services, the provider of calibration services to the oil and gas industry, for £0.9m.... [more]

Hewden Stuart plc, the equipment hire arm of Finning Group (UK) Ltd, has announced the sale of its Hoists business to HTC Plant Ltd, part of the PC Harrington Group. ... [more]

Select Retail, the 250-store fashion chain, is on the brink of going into administration, according to reports. The Watford-based firm is said to be the latest victim of the downturn in the retail sec... [more]

Electrical goods retailer DSG International may be split up and sold off, according to reports, due to a heavy fall in Christmas sales. ... [more]

Nestor Healthcare is in the early stages of takeover discussions with more than one party interested in acquiring the business. A company statement said "There can be no certainty that an offer will b... [more]

Skipton Building Society has acquired Broadsystem, the communications management and marketing services firm with 218 staff in Buckinghamshire and Bristol, for £7m.... [more]

Wallis Business Services of York is to merge with Central Stationers of Darlington to create a combined stationery group with 68 staff.... [more]

Ingram Micro has acquired Oxfordshire-based Paradigm Distribution, the company which specialises in auto-ID/data capture and point-of-sale technologies.... [more]

Qinetiq is to acquire two Australian defence consulting firms - Ball Solutions Group and Novare Services - for a total £9m.... [more]

Eurofins has acquired Lincolne Sutton & Wood, the Norwich-based food and environmental testing firm.... [more]

Davies Arnold Cooper has acquired KSB Law, the commercial law firm with 60 staff in London and St Albans.... [more]

Begbies Traynor has acquired David Horner & Co, the insolvency practitioner with offices in York, Doncaster and Middlesbrough, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

CB Richard Ellis has acquired GSD, the property services firm with 40 staff in Birmingham and Leeds.... [more]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the intended acquisition of Apertio Ltd., the leading provider of open real-time subscriber data platforms and applications built specifically for mobile, fixed, a... [more]

Shoe retailer Stead & Simpson has been put up for sale, two years after a £50m management buy-out in 2005. PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a prospectus of the 350-store chain, established in 1834, t... [more]