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]

Shipleys Amusements, the UK-based leisure group may soon be purchased by Nick Harding, one of the UK’s most established amusement arcade operators. The deal could be worth £25m.Harding recently sold T... [more]

Fayrewood is to sell Interface Solutions International, the computer distributor with 130 staff in Birmingham and Warrington, to Prime Properties Development for about £2m.... [more]

Gooch & Housego is to buy General Optics, the US optical components manufacturer with 87 staff, from GSI Group for £10m.... [more]

Lakeland Smolt has bought two fish farms at Armaddy and Port Na Gile in Argyll from Lighthouse Caledonia for £2.5m.... [more]

Arada has bought Villager Stoves, the Axminster-based fire manufacturer with 30 staff, and will relocate the business to its site in Bridport next year.... [more]

Berties, the Elland-based catering and banqueting firm, has undergone a management buy-in.... [more]

Shire is to buy Jerini, the German biotechnology company, for £260m, in order to expand its genetic therapy business.... [more]

ScS Upholstery has sold its chain of 96 furniture stores out of administration to Sun European Partners. The future of 1,300 jobs have been secured.... [more]

Nord Anglia Education, the training company, is to be bought by Baring Private Equity Asia for £190m.... [more]

TDG, the logistics group with 7,000 staff and 133 sites across Europe, is to be bought by Laxey Partners of the Isle of Man for £203m.... [more]

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the British pay-TV group, is considering making a bid of €2.5bn for Spanish pay-TV platform, Digital Plus.It is expected that Grupo Prisa, Spain's largest media firm,... [more]