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]

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]

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]

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]

Skipton Building Society has sold its Direct Life & Pension Services subsidiary to Cardif Pinnacle, in order to focus on savings and lending, mortgage servicing, estate agency, financial advice and da... [more]

RPS has acquired OIL, the Aberdeen-based oil and gas exploration and production consultancy, for up to £6.5m.... [more]

Smiths News has acquired a 50% stake in Rascal Solutions, the supplier of inventory management solutions to magazine retailers, for £3m.... [more]

Balfour Beatty has acquired Dean & Dyball, the construction company with offices in Ringwood, Exeter, Bristol, Maidstone, Birmingham, Swansea and Stevenage, for £45m.... [more]

WH Smith has acquired the United News chain of 80 hospital newsagents and coffee shops for £19m, and has also announced plans to open 29 stores at RoadChef motorway service areas.... [more]

Joynes Pike, the engineering consultancy with 170 staff in Nottingham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Doncaster, Warrington, Stoke, Wetherby and Shoreham, has been acquired by of New Zealand for more tha... [more]