Begbies Traynor has sold five of Laser Broadcasting's nine local radio stations after the company was put into administration recently. Property developer John Roberts, who is also the owner of Exete... [more]

Coolabi is to acquire Licensing by Design, the children's characters merchandising company, for £0.4m.... [more]

Vp is to acquire Power Tool Supplies, the Brighton-based tool hire company, for £1.1m, in order to expand its Hill Station subsidiary.... [more]

Wrekin Construction has acquired Toft Johnson, the Staffordshire-based construction company with 35 staff.... [more]

Centrica has acquired Semplice Energy, the Reading-based low carbon solutions firm with 21 staff, for £1.5m, in order to expand its British Gas New Energy division.... [more]

Abbey Protection is to acquire Accountax, the Milton Keynes-based accountancy, tax and employment law consultancy with 40 staff, for an initial £4.4m.... [more]

Ellis Fairbank, the Leeds-based recruitment firm with 110 staff, has been sold out of administration to IHR Group.... [more]

Laing O'Rourke has acquired most of the pre-cast concrete operations of Bison out of administration, including factories in Derbyshire and Glasgow.... [more]

Northern Petroleum has sold the Waalwijk underground gas storage project in the Netherlands to Star Energy Group for an initial £7m.... [more]

Cookson Group is to sell its Hi-Tech Ceramics filters business, which has annual sales of £5m, to Sud-Chemie, in order to win regulatory approval for its acquisition of Foseco.... [more]

JT Atkinson & Sons has acquired Hathaway & Hoyle Timber Merchants of Stockton-on-Tees, taking its chain to eight branches.... [more]

GlaxoSmithKline is to acquire Biotene, the dry-mouth treatment, from Laclede of the US for £100m, in order to expand its consumer healthcare business.... [more]

Evolution Group is to acquire the investment management business of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of about 40 staff to its London office.... [more]

Vitec Group has acquired certain assets of Technologies Talkdynamics, the Canadian software development company, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Saint Gobain Crystals is to sell its quartz products factory in Wallsend to Heraeus Quarzglas of Germany, securing 125 jobs, but a further 23 jobs in the industrial testing products department will be... [more]

Fuse8 has acquired Radiant, the Leeds-based public relations agency with four staff.... [more]

Piano Logistics has bought Butler Piano Movers of Huntingdon out of voluntary liquidation for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Oval has acquired Powell Insurance, the Liverpool-based insurance broker with 40 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Centrica has acquired Building Management System Integrators, the supplier of building control systems with 69 staff in Slough, London, Hove, Banbury and Chester, for £7m.... [more]

CPM Group has acquired Hughes Concrete, the Leek-based concrete pipes manufacturer with about 50 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]