UK Businesses For Sale

Mobile bulk messaging group, Dynmark, is undergoing a review of its business which may lead to a sale.Grant Thornton has been hired to manage the re... [more]

British media group, Fresh Media Group [FMG], has decided to sell Ceros, its online interactive magazine platform division which was set up three y... [more]

Gatwick is seen as a likely candidate for a sale, as the Competition Commission could decide, this summer, to break up Spanish-owned BAA. The Competi... [more]

JDR Distribution, based in Tamworth, has gone into administration less than a year after it rebranded as a 24-hour delivery service called moved4u. C... [more]

Engineering company, Bodycote, have decided to sell its materials testing business for around £400m.Bodycote has begun a strategic review, with the ... [more]

Tesco is discussing a sale of its online property business. A chain of estate agents is due to purchase it.Tesco Property Market was established in J... [more]

HBOS, the UK-listed banking group, might decide to make disposals to boost its capital. According to analysts non-core operations could be disposed o... [more]

A part-owner of James Hull Associates has hired sale advisers according to Newspaper reports. Private-equity house and 40% shareholder Hutton Collins... [more]

Independent Clinical Services (ICS), the nursing-staff supplier formerly called Thornbury, is under strategic review. Deloitte have been hired by Du... [more]

Trillium, the outsourcing business currently owned by Land Securities, has chosen a final list of bidders to continue to the second round of the auct... [more]

RBS has recently initiated a sale process for all or part of its insurance division, which includes Direct Line and Churchill.Chief executive, Sir Fr... [more]

A recent report from the Competition Commission, could lead to a multibillion pound split of airports operator BAA.Ferrovial, the Spanish consortium... [more]

UK-listed food company, Premier Foods, is planning to sell its Avana Bakeries and RF Brookes food supplies businesses. Premier has hired the investme... [more]

Cavendish Corporate Finance are due to advise on a sale of the UK division of Paul, the sandwich bar chain. It is thought that an asking price for Pa... [more]

Britain's largest nightclub operator, Luminar Group, is due to dispose of 26 of its under performing sites in a deal made with Cavendish, a rival co... [more]

Pearl Assurance is to takeover Resolution Life in a deal approaching £5bn after the Financial Services Authority approved the acquisition. The sale ... [more]

Baugur has put its struggling value fashion chain, MK One, on the market. The chain is one of the worst-performing businesses in the Icelandic inves... [more]

Classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, was sold recently by its private equity owners, HgCapital, for £126m to Imagem Music.Imagem Music is ... [more]

One of the UK’s largest housebuilders, Barratt Developments, is mulling a £250m sale of its commercial property division, Wilson Bowden Developments.... [more]

Edinburgh-based Quayle Munro is due to announce the acquisition of van Tulleken, the group of corporate finance advisers specialising in media, info... [more]

Private internet-based education company, Espresso, is considering a sale. A decision has yet to be made by the management on whether to sell. Espres... [more]

Scotland-based Ossian Retail Group is expected to enter administration within the next few weeks. Recently Ossian debt owner Agilo announced it had a... [more]

Somerfield and its suitor, the Co-op, are still in discussion over a potential takeover, despite disagreements over the price. A deal could be struck... [more]

Tiscali, the Italian broadband operator, has been put on the market this week. Carphone Warehouse, the UK-based mobile phone retailer may be interest... [more]

Dutch chemicals and paint giant, Akzo Nobel, has put its UK business, Crown Paints, on the market for up to £200m.Investment bank, Greenhill, have be... [more]

Pontin's, the British holiday village operator, has been sold for £46m to a company headed by Graham Parr, the entrepreneur who previously owned the... [more]

Bowmark Capital, the private equity group, has put its Education & Adventure Travel Group on the market for a potential sale price of at least £1... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) may sell NIG, its commercial insurance underwriting division, later this year once its cost-cutting restructuring has fi... [more]

Centaur Media is set to implement a review of the business which may result in an MBO. The article cited sources who said the London-listed group is ... [more]

British banking group HSBC is mulling a sale of its train-leasing division, HSBC Rail. HSBC is under increasing pressure to offload noncore assets in... [more]

Asda, the Wal-Mart owned UK supermarket chain, is seeking a buyer for Gazeley, its global property development business, in a deal worth £400m.Gazele... [more]

Carter & Carter, the automotive manufacturing training company, has been placed into administration after three profit warnings.The profit warnin... [more]

The BBC has decided to sell their Resources division to Satellite Information Service (SIS), the UK-based sports TV company. BBC project director, An... [more]

GE Energy, a division of General Electric, will sell its power station, Baglan Bay, later on this year. GE Energy UK's new managing director, Magued... [more]

Global Radio's offer for UK listed radio group GCap will probably be referred to the Competition Commission for disposals, but this should not preve... [more]

Three years after its launch, the Shetland-based organic cod farming business, No Catch, has fallen into administration. The parent company of No Cat... [more]

Texol Technical Solutions, the developer of bug-catching machines Midgeater and Mosquitoeater, went into administration at the end of February, follo... [more]

The Bristol-based supermarket chain Somerfield may be broken up after bids from Asda and the Co-op came in at less than the £2.5bn expected. It has ... [more]

Pub and restaurant operator, Mitchells & Butlers, is currently preparing for an auction. The business could sell for £2.5bn. Private equity bidd... [more]

The UK’s biggest property group, Land Securities, started an auction for its Trillium outsourcing business recently. The business could sell for up t... [more]

Rentokil Initial, the services group, received its second profits warning in the space of two months, sending its shares down by more than a fifth. I... [more]

The New Connaught Rooms, one of London's most prestigious connference venues is rumoured to have been quietly put on the market by Choice Hotels. Ba... [more]

BP have suggested that its alternative energy division could be placed on the market for £3.5bn, in order to take advantage of rising values in the r... [more]

BAA, the airport company, could possibly be forced to put one of its airports on the market as Ferrovial, its Spanish owner, admitted that it will be... [more]

Getty Images, the world's largest photograph bank, has been sold to Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm, for $2.4bn (£1.2bn). It was previ... [more]

Barratt Developments, the UK-based residential construction group, is considering its options for Wilson Bowden Developments business, which was acqu... [more]

UK-based sandwich company, Eat, is thinking about selling. It is preparing to hire advisers to conduct the sale. Eat, the privately-owned chain, is ... [more]

British magazine titles ranging from New Scientist to Hotelkeeper, have been put on the market by the publishing company, Reed Elsevier. The business... [more]

Grampian, the largest supplier of meat and poultry to the UK's supermarkets is currently being bid for by two major foreign meat suppliers: Vion, th... [more]

The JDS Group, an interior specialist company based in Faringdon, near Oxford, went into administration last week, leaving 350 employees redundant. T... [more]

Spice Plc, a support services firm for the energy sector, could be considering a sale of its telecoms division for an amount potentially in the regio... [more]

PA Sport, is under review by the parent company, PA Group, the UK-based news service. The sports section, PA Sport, may be put up for sale. It had be... [more]

The private UK support services company, OCS Group, is seeking to sell its engineering business, OCS Engineering. The division, OCS Engineering, mana... [more]

Setanta Sports, said recently that it would consider offers that have been made for the company, but it renounced the claim that it has started a for... [more]

Men's fashion clothes retailer, Base, have called in Leonard Curtis, to act as their administrators. The family owned company, Granditer Menswear, w... [more]

Akzo Nobel, has hired Greenhill, to be their advisors on the sale of its UK paint brand, Crown Paints, according to reports. The sale was part of the... [more]

HSBC has decided to sell a large part of its French retail banking business, the move would mirror demands by a rebel investor that it reduce its pre... [more]

The waste management company, Biffa, has agreed to a £1.2bn takeover offer from a group of investors. A consortium, including the private equity firm... [more]

Eastwoods, a chain of bookmakers, operating in Northern Ireland has been bought by Ladbrokes for £135 million.Ladbrokes now has an extra 54 shops, co... [more]

Healthcare Homes, the Nursing home group, could be up for sale for an estimated £80m. The company's owners, including the private equity firm, Augus... [more]

CeNeS, the pharmaceuticals developer, is in discussions which could lead to a sale of the UK company. CeNes are keeping quiet at the moment but they ... [more]

Following several approaches, Cavendish have been appointed to advise on a possible £10m sale of Models 1, the UK-based model agency. Models 1's cli... [more]

Setmasters, the printing machinery manufacturer, was given a new name: BCB Professional Finishing Solutions, in January after its second spell in adm... [more]

The Employability and Skills Group (ESG), the retail staff trainer has gone up for sale for £80 million.<br><br>The owners of (ESG), Sove... [more]

The debt collection and finance group, London Scottish Bank (LSB), may sell its invoice finance business, in order to repair its capital base after b... [more]

The Works' is up for sale and the administrator is sure that a buyer for the British bookshop chain will be found, it has been reported.<br>&l... [more]

In what could be the biggest internet deal of 2008, Microsoft announced today that it has made a formal proposal to the Board of Directors of Yahoo! ... [more]

The family-owned UK group, Care Aspirations has kept Deloitte in order to run a sales process with the first round of bids expected to be placed by t... [more]

Footwear retailer Stead & Simpson has been sold to rival chain Shoe Zone after a brief spell in administration.<BR><BR>Rob Hunt, Bruc... [more]

Flowcrete, the UK-based flooring company, may possibly sell for £35 million (EUR 47m), according to reports.<br><br>The report noted that... [more]

London Southend Airport (LSACL) is up for sale, after receiving interest from potential buyers. LSACL, the London Southend and Biggin Hill airports i... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes has recently announced that it has agreed to sell its Monkhill business, to Tangerine Confectionery Ltd for £58 million. <br>... [more]

Kingfisher's new CEO, Ian Cheshire, suggested that the retailer might sell poorly-performing or non-core businesses. Kingfisher has businesses in 9 ... [more]

West Sussex-based pasta, sauces, gravies, stocks and soups manufacturer, Pasta Reale, has appointed Grant Thornton to explore trade sale options. Pas... [more]

Reports have come in that the founders of Organix Brands, Mike Thrasher and his wife Lizzie Vannand, are exploring the possibility of a trade sale. ... [more]

The UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has finally agreed to be bought up by Carlsberg and Heineken for £7.8bn ($15.3bn). The company will ... [more]

Farrow System Limited, a Norfolk company which developed a special method of cleaning boats and buildings has been put into administration.<BR>... [more]

Jaycare, a leading North-East packaging company went into administration recently.<BR><BR>Jaycare’s collapse comes less than a month afte... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Deutsche Bank to advise on the sale of its Condor Ferries businessRBS is asking approximately £300m for Condor... [more]

Getty Images, the market-leading online photography platform, is up for sale. Goldman Sachs has been appointed to consider their strategic options.&l... [more]

Shoe retailer, Dolcis Fell into administration this week. Brian Green, Alan Graham and Howard Smith, joint administrators from KPMG’s restructuring p... [more]

News International has decided to put its 'Fortress Wapping' headquarters site in London on the market, before a decision on the new home for its n... [more]

UK based computer game developer, SCi Entertainment is considering selling off its publishing operations.<BR><BR>The chairman Tim Ryan sa... [more]

Tyrrells Potato Chips (Tyrrells) could be put on the block with a potential price tag of over GBP 20m (EUR 26.8m). ... [more]

Shareholders in Somerfield, the supermarket chain which became private two years ago, are considering a £2bn sale of the group. ... [more]

Curley's the family owned supermarket firm will be sold to Sainsbury's in a multi-million pound deal.It focuses on Curley's two flagship stores in... [more]

The UK property services company Erinaceous Group PLC has revealed that it is mulling a sale of its insurance services unit after a significant numbe... [more]

Soho Clubs and Bars, the business which owns ten popular West End clubs and bars, is looking for a buyer with the resources to support the further ex... [more]

UK wine merchant Boutinot Wines could be set to sell up, according to reports. KPMG has been hired to examine the company's options, one of which co... [more]

Sandtoft Roof Tiles Ltd, the UK’s largest independent roof tile manufacturer and Wienerberger, the world’s largest producer of bricks and the number ... [more]

Speedy Hire announced that it has acquired the tool and equipment hire business of AMEC Logistics and Support Services Limited, for £12.5m. ... [more]

UK-based mortgage broker John Charcol is up for sale according to reports, with a £50m asking price. ... [more]

Independent UK fuel supplier Blue Ocean Associates has been acquire by Dublin-based Ion Equity, in a deal believed to be worth more than €150m. ... [more]

Standard Life is looking to sell media firm Bloomberg LP's London headquarters, a key asset for one of their main funds. A spokesman for Standard Li... [more]

Hewden Stuart plc, the equipment hire arm of Finning Group (UK) Ltd, has announced the sale of its Hoists business to HTC Plant Ltd, part of the PC H... [more]

Electrical goods retailer DSG International may be split up and sold off, according to reports, due to a heavy fall in Christmas sales. ... [more]

Nestor Healthcare is in the early stages of takeover discussions with more than one party interested in acquiring the business. A company statement s... [more]

Ingram Micro has acquired Oxfordshire-based Paradigm Distribution, the company which specialises in auto-ID/data capture and point-of-sale technologi... [more]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the intended acquisition of Apertio Ltd., the leading provider of open real-time subscriber data platforms and a... [more]