Acquisition Resources

Dutch chemicals and paint giant, Akzo Nobel, has put its UK business, Crown Paints, on the market for up to £200m.Investment bank, Greenhill, have been appointed to find buyers for Lancashire-based Cr... [more]

Pontin's, the British holiday village operator, has been sold for £46m to a company headed by Graham Parr, the entrepreneur who previously owned the business in the 1980s.Pontin's is in the process of... [more]

Close Brothers has acquired Commercial Acceptances Group for £31m and Amber Credit for £2m, in order to expand its banking subsidiary.... [more]

Giles Insurance Brokers has acquired DS Howell, the Tonyrefail-based insurance broker with 17 staff.... [more]

Pontin's, the chain of seven holiday camps, has been acquired by a former chief executive for £46m.... [more]

Tomcat Systems, the Belfast-based medical IT company with 25 staff, has been acquired by Philips for undisclosed terms, and will become part of Philips' Healthcare Informatics division.... [more]

JT Morgan, the Swansea department store, has been bought out of administration by a management team.... [more]

Bibby Financial Services has bought Siemens Financial Services' single invoice factoring business for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Country Valley Foods has acquired the Billingham division of Cocked Hat Farm Foods, with the transfer of 20 staff.... [more]

Brewer Consulting, the London-based construction law consultancy, has been acquired by FTI Consulting of the US for undisclosed terms.... [more]

JP Morgan has acquired ClimateCare, the Oxford-based carbon offsetting business, for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Environmental Markets operation.... [more]

Skipton Building Society has acquired an 86% stake in Torquil Clark, the independent financial adviser with 120 staff in Wolverhampton and the Lake District.... [more]

Cyril Sweett has acquired Nisbet, the quantity surveying and project management firm with 12 partners and 88 staff at offices in the Midlands and South, for £5.9m.... [more]

Pennon Group has acquired Shore Recycling, the electrical equipment recycling firm with sites in Perth, Manchester and St Helens, for £23m.... [more]

Crisp Thinking of Leeds has acquired IMSafer, the US supplier of child protection software for the internet, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Triton Group has acquired Dynamic Positioning Services, the Aberdeen-based oil services firm with 30 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Pland Stainless, the stainless steel products manufacturer with 70 staff in Leeds and Glasgow, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Wastecare has acquired E Pease & Sons, the Leeds-based industrial packaging recycling and reconditioning firm that will now trade as PackCare, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Ford is to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover car manufacturing operations to Tata of India for £1bn, securing the future of 13,500 jobs at sites including Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Halewood until at ... [more]

Bowmark Capital, the private equity group, has put its Education & Adventure Travel Group on the market for a potential sale price of at least £100m. Education & Adventure Travel Group specialises in ... [more]