Tragus, the British mid-market restaurant chain, has agreed to buy UK Spanish-themed restaurant chain La Tasca for around £96m in cash, at 185 pence per share.... [more]

Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub group with a portfolio of 9,300 pubs, is reportedly to put around 1,000 of its pubs in England and Wales up for sale in anticipation of the forthcoming smoking ban.... [more]

Jury's Inn, the Irish family-owned hotel chain, has confirmed that the business is formally up for sale with an auction due to begin this week. ... [more]

UK-based gym chain Fitness First could be put up for sale within the next two years according to the company's chief of European operations, James McGoldrick. McGoldrick confirmed to a German newspape... [more]

Foxtons, the London estate agent group, has been put on the market for up to £400m. After initially considering a flotation in November, Foxtons is now understood to have appointed advisers Credit Sui... [more]

UK racecourse operator Northern Racing is thought to have appointed NM Rothschild to handle a sale of the business despite already being in the process of considering a bid submitted last year. Source... [more]

Holiday group Travelport is reportedly set for a break-up or flotation by its private equity owner Blackstone Group. Travelport operates the Gullivers Travel brand and online travel websites e-bookers... [more]

It was confirmed on Tuesday afternoon in an official statment from the Serbian multi-millionaire that his £25million takeover of the the club had been completed, after selling his stake in Portsmouth ... [more]

Blooms of Bressingham has agreed to a £30.2m takeover by the investment vehicle of Scottish tycoon Tom Hunter, West Coast Capital Ltd. ... [more]

Bourne Leisure has acquired Far Grange Park, the holiday park with 100 staff and 850 pitches in Skipsea, near Hornsea, in a multi-million pound deal.... [more]

Park Holidays UK has acquired the Landscove and Riviera Bay holiday parks in South Devon.... [more]

Liverpool Football Club is to be acquired by a new US-based company called Kop Football for £219m, which will clear the way for the development of a new £215m stadium at Stanley Park.... [more]

Capita Group has acquired Harry Weeks Travel & Leisure Group, the Orpington-based travel software company with 70 staff, for £21m. A further £12 will be paid over the next four years subject to perfor... [more]

Holidaybreak has acquired West End Theatre Bookings, the London-based ticket agency, for up to £3.2m.... [more]

Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, the Irish hotel operator taken private in 2005, could reportedly put Jurys Inn, its subsidiary of 20 three star hotels, up for sale after hiring Merrill Lynch to explore optio... [more]

Flodrive, the UK-based property business of private investor Tony Khalastchi, has put a portfolio of 11 Scottish hotels up for sale with a combined asking price of over £30m. ... [more]

Whitbread is to sell its chain of 45 TGI Friday's restaurants to Carlson Restaurants, ABN Amro Capital and British Land for £70m, in order to focus on hotels and coffee shops.... [more]

Blooms of Bressingham, the UK-listed garden centre chain, is in preliminary discussions over a possible sale of the business to an un-named bidder, tipped to be a consortium led by property and retail... [more]

A sale is now thought to be the most likely option for the Dawnay Shore, the operator of the Paramount hotel brand, after it received expressions of interest from a number of companies.... [more]

The owner of Blue Water Horizons, the Weymouth-based power boat company, has said that he would consider selling the business in order to pursue other business enterprises. Frank Stevens, who also own... [more]