BAe Systems is to acquire Detica Group, the provider of information management systems to the national security sector with 1,500 staff, for £538m.... [more]

Whitbread is to acquire 21 Express by Holiday Inn hotels from Mitchells & Butlers, in exchange for 44 pub restaurants.... [more]

Tesco is to take full control of Tesco Personal Finance with the £950m acquisition of a 50% stake from Royal Bank of Scotland.... [more]

Essay Print, the Leeds-based printing firm with 20 staff, has been bought out of administration by Collective UK.... [more]

RM has acquired Orchard Partners, the supplier of education software that trades as EasyTrace, for up to £2.8m.... [more]

BT has acquired Ribbit Corporation, the US telecoms and internet services firm, for about £50m.... [more]

Ridge has acquired Walfords, the quantity surveyor with 30 staff in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Milton Keynes, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Super Aguri, the Oxfordshire-based motor racing team, has had its assets bought out of administration by Formtech of Germany.... [more]

Hill Hire, owned by the investment division of HBOS, is on the market. HBOS aims to raise £300m from the sale of Hill Hire which is one of Britain's biggest truck and trailer rental companies.The sale... [more]

ProCook, the Cheltenham-based kitchenware retailer, has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing the future of 260 jobs at 39 stores.... [more]

Biocompatibles has acquired the business and net assets of BrachySciences, the US supplier of medical devices, for £11m.... [more]

Petrofac has acquired Eclipse Petroleum Technology, the petroleum engineering firm with 50 staff in Aberdeen, London, Norway, Dubai and the US, for an initial £7m.... [more]

Acambis, the vaccine manufacturer, is to be acquired by Sanofi-Aventis of France for £276m.... [more]

Scott Wilson has acquired Benaim Enterprise, the civils and structural consultancy with offices in London and Bath, for £5.5m.... [more]

SSP Holdings, the IT services firm with offices in Halifax, Belfast, Solihull, Worthing, Farnborough, Marlow and Nottingham, is to be acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for £198m.... [more]

IS Solutions is to acquire Chapter26, the Surrey-based supplier of content management solutions, for an initial £0.7m.... [more]

Lion Capital has acquired FoodVest, the owner of Findus frozen foods and Young's seafood products with more than 6,000 staff at 20 factories, from CapVest for £1.1bn.... [more]

Intertek has acquired Applica, the German food testing laboratory with 43 staff, for up to £3.6m.... [more]

Amec has acquired AllDeco, the Slovak nuclear services company with 112 staff, for £11m.... [more]

Trafficmaster is to acquire TRI-MEX Group, the pan-European service for stolen vehicle and cargo tracking, for up to £4.7m.... [more]