Healthcare provider Simplyhealth has reached agreement to purchase the UK healthcare business of Groupama Insurances, subject to the required regulatory approvals.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are big business, but most fail or do not work out as well as planned – perhaps because HR is not involved till the last moment, if at all. It’s time HR was at the M&A...

Pension provider Capita Hartshead has today acquired HR services provider NorthgateArinso's UK pension business for an undisclosed sum, allowing NorthgateArinso to focus on its HR practice.

Alphabet, the fleet management division of BMW Group, has acquired ING Car Lease, a division of ING Groep N.V.

Talent management provider Taleo Corporation has acquired Jobpartners for approximately $38 million.

P&MM, a subsidiary of Motivcom, has acquired Allsave and My Family Care Vouchers, which are companies that specialise in providing tax efficient childcare vouchers to UK companies.

Midlands-based Discovery, a graduate talent management company, has bought performance improvement consultancy StrategA as the first of several planned acquisitions for 2011/12.

Mazars Financial Planning, the financial planning and advisory business of accountancy firm Mazars, has acquired the business and assets of Redbourne, a specialist employee benefit administration...

Health cash plan provider Westfield Health has announced it is acquiring the business of PatientChoice, which administers, markets and sells health insurance products.

Companies are under-utilising frontline managers during the integration process in corporate transactions, global consultancy Towers Watson warns today.

Lancaster University has acquired The Work Foundation.

Friends Provident Life and Pensions is proposing to acquire Bupa Health Assurance for 102 million.