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]

GSH Group has acquired Utilitec, the Dutch mechanical and electrical installation firm, for £1.9m.... [more]

Butler & Tanner, the Somerset-based book printing firm, is to be bought out of administration by Butler, Tanner & Dennis. The move will create jobs for 90 of the former 300 staff.... [more]

Avon Printing Services, the Melksham-based lithographic and digital printing firm, has been bought by Avon Print for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Co-operative Group is to buy Somerfield, the Bristol-based chain of 880 supermarkets, for £1.6bn. Up to 120 stores are expected to be sold on to other retailers.... [more]

United Drug has bought Sharp Corporation, the US-based pharmaceutical contract packaging firm with about 600 employees, for £50m.... [more]

Howarth Timber is to buy Boise Building Products, which distributes timber products through Cirencester-based Crown Timber, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Pulman, Durham-based, has purchased Mill Garages, the Sunderland-based VW car dealership, increasing its workforce to 120.... [more]

Building Design Partnership has acquired Khandekar, the Dutch architectural design firm with 30 emloyees.... [more]

Mears Group has sold UFD, its Birmingham-based vehicle distribution division, to BCA in a deal worth £2.8m.... [more]

Sheffield United has sold the Thames Club, the Staines-based health and fitness club, to a company backed by the Downing Protected VCTs, in order to focus on its leisure operations in the South Yorksh... [more]

Newcastle Airport has bought Samson Aviation Services for £500k, and plans to expand the business aviation activities at the 50-acre site on the south side of the airport.... [more]

Greystone Financial Services has bought Roger Harris & Co, the Leicestershire-based wealth management firm, for £3m.... [more]