France-based RIBER has bought Oxford Instruments' Molecular Beam Epitaxy service and support business for £300k.... [more]

Dunedin Industrious, the £520m commercial property subsidiary of Dunedin, the Edinburgh-based property company, has been forced into receivership after it failed to secure emergency funds needed in or... [more]

Barclays has agreed to acquire the North American investment banking and capital markets operations of Lehman Brothers, including the New York headquarters and two data centres.... [more]

Volvo Group UK has sold Wales and West Truck and Bus Centre to a management buy-out operating under the name of WW Truck & Bus for undisclosed terms, including 200 staff in Avon, Somerset, Gloucesters... [more]

Aberdeen Asset Management has sold part of its private equity business to a management buy-out operating under the name of Spirit Capital.... [more]

Lyceum Capital has acquired Carewatch, the in-home care division of Nestor Healthcare with 125 franchised offices, for £37m.... [more]

GKN is to acquire the Airbus aircraft wing components factory at Filton near Bristol for £136m, and the government is providing £60m in repayable aid.... [more]

Interactive Prospect Targeting, the direct online marketing group, is to sell off its UK businesses as well as one of its French divisions after a strategic review.The decision was made after the revi... [more]

GKN, the UK-based engineering company, is due to finalise plans to acquire a significant part of the manufacturing site at Filton owned by the French aircraft company, Airbus, after securing about £60... [more]

Gresham Computing has sold its Redstone Software testing and automation division to Testplant for a nominal sum.... [more]

Acertec has sold both the steel reinforcement operations of its BRC subsidiary and its 50% stake in BRC McMahon Reinforcements to Celsa Steel Service in a deal worth £25m.... [more]

Eastlake Group has purchased the furniture manufacturing facility of Greenwood & Wood, which is based in Wakefield, and will relocate its Leeds-based Burdew division to the site.... [more]