Mbo/mbi News - written by Hanna Sharpe

Leisure Pass Group has been purchased by its CEO Darran Evans in a management buy-out deal, backed by Primary Capital. [more]

Travelzest, which has been looking for a buyer for over one year, could be purchased by its own management. [more]

Havelock Europa is to sell Showcard Print in an £15.25 million management buy-out to new company Ingleby (1 [more]

Insurance building repairs firm LAS Claims Management is set to buy its rival Waylett and Co, in its first business purchase since its own management buy-out in 2010. [more]

Engineering and environmental consultancy Hilson Moran has been bought in an £5 million management buy-out deal, led by managing director Chris Plummer and backed by Albion Vent [more]

Twelve months after a management buy-out deal, 130-year-old Scottish knitwear firm Hawick Knitwear has seen its production double and has announced plans to take on 50 trainees over the next three years. [more]

Insurance service provider Davies Group has been bought by private equity firm, Electra Partners, from Lloyds Banking Group’s buyout arm, LDC, for £60 million in a secondary management [more]

CPMG Architects has been bought by four of its directors in a management buy-out deal. [more]

The West Midlands experienced one of the biggest leaps in management buy-out deal activity in the UK, in the first half of 2011 - more than doubling the figure from the second half of 2010. [more]

Thomson Shepherd’s management team has purchased the IFA business previously 75 per cent owned by Skipton Building Society in a management buy-out d [more]

Just one week after entering administration, Triumph Furniture Company has been rescued by its own management team. [more]

After announcing record sales, Heating Plumbing Supplies Limited has been bought in a management buy-out deal. [more]

Bosses of British-Canadian travel company, Travelzest, are considering a move to sell the company, with a potential management buy-out being one of the options on the list. [more]

Novelis UK has sold its printed confectionery foil packaging business to Discovery Foils Ltd, after plans were discussed to shut the business down. [more]

Mobile phone recycler Redeem has been purchased in a management buy-in deal for an undisclosed sum. [more]

John Baxter, the former True Financial Planning and MLP Private Finance boss, has lead a management buy-out of Manchester-based Veracity Asset Transformation Service from Australian bank Macquarie Group. [more]

The gambling technology group OpenBet is readying to change ownership in a £20 million management buy-out deal backed by Vitruvian Part [more]

Network-based provider of end-to-end managed services, Redstone Plc, has sold off its security division in a management buy-out deal, led by the managing director. [more]

TAG Energy Solutions, UK manufacturer of foundation structures for wind turbines, has been snapped up in a management buyout funded by Plantina Partners. [more]

West Yorkshire glassmaker Allied Glass has undertaken a management buyout deal worth £75 million, which was backed by Barclays Private Eq [more]