In today’s deal headlines London-based Libra Holidays has bought sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife and H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in the northeast

In today’s deal headlines London-based Libra Holidays has bought sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife and H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in the northeast

Done deals:

•    H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in northeast England for an undisclosed sum

•    Falkirk-based roadsweepers Applied Sweepers has been sold to US-based rival Tennant for £34 million

•    PLUS-listed Global Entertainment Group plc, has raised £1.3 million through a share placing

•    Lombard Risk Management plc has sold its valuation business, Independent Value and Risk Services to NYSE Euronext subsidiary LIFFE Holdings plc for approximately £700,000

•    Dexion Absolute has raised around $263.2 million (£134.2 million) through a share placing

•    Edda Media, the Norwegian division of Mecom Group plc, has sold its Direct Marketing activities in Norway to Posten Norge and its Swedish operations to InterMail for a combined total of NOK51 million (£4.8 million) 

•    Bank of Scotland Corporate has acquired a 20 per cent stake in Wales-based supplier of vehicle tracking systems Quartix while providing a debt and equity investment totalling more than £12 million

•    London-based Libra Holidays has snapped up sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife 

Deals in the pipeline:

•    Clinical Computing plc, a developer of clinical information systems for the healthcare market, has agreed to acquire project management and resource software business Program Management Group plc through its subsidiary Datanet Research

•    Bear Stearns Private Equity is to acquire Macquarie Private Capital Group