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Aegis Group has agreed to acquire the holding company of Roundarch Inc, the US digital agency, for an initial consideration of $125m. Roundarch is a leading digital agency which specialises in...

African oil explorer Ophir Energy (LON:OPHR) gained more than 7% after Cove Energy (LON:COV) was the subject of a £992 million offer from Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSB). Ophir operates in East...

Judges Scientific (LON:JDG), the parent company of a group engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of scientific instruments, announces that Deben UK Limited, in which it holds a 51% indirect...

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Oil giant Shell has made a proposed offer of £992.4m for Mozambique-focused Cove Energy. Shell's proposed 195p per share offer would represent a premium of 73.3% to the closing price of 112.5...

Filtrona has taken over Securit World Ltd from the Heyden family for a cash consideration of £6m. Securit has been acquired on a debt-free basis, and the transaction was funded from the...

Ericsson has agreed to acquire privately-held Canadian Wi-Fi company BelAir Networks. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ericsson said the acquisition would enable it to complement...

4imprint Group has called an EGM for March 14. At the meeting shareholders will be asked to approve the proposed sale of Brand Addition, together with its subsidiaries, and Kreyer Promotion...

Business information and events group Centaur Media has taken over Profile Group (UK) for £8m. Profile is a specialist digital information business for media, PR and marketing professionals....

Avingtrans has formed Sigma Composites following an agreement to acquire Delta Composites, Alpha Composites and Orion Machining, collectively known as Composites Engineeering Group. Avingtrans...

ICAP Shipping has taken over Island Shipbrokers Pte, a shipbroking company based in Singapore, from Tim Madley, Allan Spangsberg and Mystic Enterprises Limited. Island Shipbrokers Pte's core...

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Addison Lee's completed acquisition of Lewis Day Transport's private hire passenger car business has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT said it had decided, on the information...

Misys has confirmed that it has received an approach from Vista Equity Partners. Misys issued a statement following press speculation which confirmed that the approach consists of a non-binding...

Sky High has exchanged a conditional contract to acquire the business and certain assets of Count on Us, a national traffic data collection company with a strong market share in the London and...

Waterlogic, a leading manufacturer and global distributor of point-of-use ("POU") drinking water purification and dispensing systems, has conditionally agreed to acquire the share capital of Aqua...

Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (MDP) has completed the acquisition of Murchison Metals' interests in Crosslands Resources, which is the owner of the Jack Hills iron ore deposit, and in the...

The board of Samsung Electronics has approved the merger with Samsung LED, which was previously decided at the Board of Directors meeting on December 26, 2011 Story provided by...

Turkmenistan-based oil firm Dragon Oil (LON:DGO) notes the recent movement in Bowleven's (LON:BLVN) share price and confirms that it is in the preliminary stages of exploring a possible offer for...

At an extraordinary general meeting Watermark Global (LON:WET) to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Western Utilities Corporation to Capricorn Investment Holdings Limited. Prior to completion of...

Orchid, the specialist investor in the Bulgarian real estate and leisure market, has said that the preliminary discussions with a third party did not lead to an indicative offer for the company....

International engineering group IMI has acquired Grupo InterAtiva, a Brazilian isolation valve business from its founding partners. IMI is paying an initial cash consideration of £22m and with a...

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Datatec subsidiary Westcon has agreed to acquire the business of PT Netpoleon, an Indonesian value added distributor of IT security, networking and convergence solutions and provider of managed and...

Engineering group IMI has taken over Remosa, a leading engineering business specialising in valves and related flow control products for severe applications, for an enterprise value of...

Petrofac, the oil & gas service provider, has acquired the entire share capital of KW Limited (KW). Based in Fetcham, near Woking, with an office in Aberdeen, KW is a high-end subsea pipeline...

Mondi Group has made an all cash public tender offer of PLN69.00 (EUR16.48) per share ("Offer") for 17 million shares representing 34% of the share capital of Mondi Swiecie S.A. that it does not...

Morgan Sindall Group's investments division, Morgan Sindall Investments, has sold its 33.5% interest in the Dorset Fire & Rescue PFI Project to HICL Infrastructure Company. MSIL has held the 33.5%...

SureTrack Monitoring has entered into a conditional share purchase agreement to dispose of one of its subsidiaries, Sure-Track Europe Limited, to Will Hirons and Deborah Davis for £188,062. In...

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Müller Dairy (UK) will start the compulsory acquisition of Robert Wiseman Dairies' shares on 28 March. Müller Dairy (UK)'s has acquired or received valid acceptance of more than 90% of Wiseman...

At 8:08am: (LON:JLT) Jardine Lloyd Thompson share price was +9.75p at 679.75p Story provided by StockMarketWire.com

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Technical services provider Imtech has taken over Norwegian company Steinar Holbæk. Imtech say this acquisition will enable it to develop a strong position in the Norwegian growth region of...

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Mondi Swiecie's acquisition of Saturn Management has been cleared by regulators. Mondi said the transaction by its subsidiary was subject to obtaining a ruling from the Arbitration Court of the...

Orchid, the specialist investor in the Bulgarian real estate and leisure market, last month received a preliminary approach from a third party which may or may not lead to an offer for the company....

GeoPark Holdings has taken over Winchester Oil and Gas and La Luna Oil Company, privately-held exploration and production companies operating in Colombia, for $30m. The agreement also provides...

Premier Management, the natural resources investment company, has updated shareholders regarding the continued suspension from trading of its shares and the potential acquisition of Central Asia...

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Terrace Hill Group plc (LON:THG), a UK property development and investment group, announces that it has exchanged contracts with an overseas buyer for the sale of a portfolio of properties within...

C&C Group LON:CCR), a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded long alcohol drinks, principally in Ireland and the UK, announces that Liam Fitzgerald will step down as a non-executive...

Shares in Cable & Wireless Worldwide (LON:CW.) are up by a third, the biggest riser on the FTSE All Share, after Vodafone (LON:VOD) revealed it had made contact over a potential approach for the...

The board of Cable & Wireless Worldwide (LON:CW.) notes the announcement by Vodafone Group (LON:VOD) today that it is in the very early stages of evaluating the merits of a potential offer for C&W...

The Office of Fair Trading is looking at the acquisition by Tarmac of two RMX plants (trading as Newark Concrete) from MCG Enterprises. It is considering whether this acquisition has resulted, or...

Shares of Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) soared over 27% after Vodafone Group said it was in the early stages of evaluating the merits of a potential bid for the U.K. telecoms services provider....