Carter & Carter, the automotive manufacturing training company, has been placed into administration after three profit warnings.The profit warnings followed the death of Phillip Carter, the company's ... [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 Eldaief, said the improved market conditions expect... [more]

The JDS Group, an interior specialist company based in Faringdon, near Oxford, went into administration last week, leaving 350 employees redundant. The company has been in business since 1984 and was ... [more]

Setmasters, the printing machinery manufacturer, was given a new name: BCB Professional Finishing Solutions, in January after its second spell in administration in two years. The new administrators ar... [more]

Keating Group Ltd, the cylinder producer based on Bromfield Industrial Estate in Mold, Wales, went into administration after a bank had changed their minds about releasing vital funds to the company.... [more]

Glanbia, which employs about 400 people at its Roscrea factories in Ireland, confirmed recently that it has entered into negotiations that may lead to a sale of the meats business. The sale is no surp... [more]

Jaycare, a leading North-East packaging company went into administration recently.... [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 two in clay tiles in Europe, have agreed to join fo... [more]

Alfred McAlpine plc has announced that it has completed the sale of its Welsh Slate business, one of the world’s foremost producers of roofing and architectural slate. The unit, which operates from fo... [more]

Eastman Chemical Company has announced it has entered into definitive agreements with Indorama to sell its PET facility and related businesses in the United Kingdom, and its PET and PTA facilities and... [more]

Filtronic plc has announced a definitive agreement for the sale of all of the share capital of Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Limited to RF Micro Devices Inc for £12.5m cash.  The transaction is ex... [more]

US-based PPG Industries, through a European subsidiary, has agreed to purchase the bodyshop distribution business of Unipart Automotive. The transaction is expected to close on or about Jan. 31, 2008.... [more]

As part of it's deal with the European Commission over it's acquisition of rival ICI, which owns Dulux, AKZO Nobel is to sell several of its Crown paint sites. The Warrington and Hull sites are now up... [more]

Yorpower Manufacturing Limited has acquired the diesel and gas maintenance business of Power Plant Services Limited. The acquired business will continue to trade as Power Plant Services (a division of... [more]

B3 Cable Solutions has announced that they have signed an agreement to purchase Indian based telecom cable manufacturing business UM Cables Ltd from Usha Martin Ltd., a company listed on the Indian st... [more]

Chemring Group PLC has announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Richmond Electronics & Engineering Limited from a private individual for a total consideration of £11m.... [more]

Visteon Corporation has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding outlining the understanding and status of discussions regarding the sale of its Swansea, United Kingdom operation to Linamar Co... [more]

Aga Foodservice Group plc has announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell Aga Foodservice Equipment, its commercial foodservice and bakery equipment business, to Ali SpA, the ma... [more]

Eleksen Group plc, the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for electronics interface design, is now to be put up for sale after appointing administrators. ... [more]

Avery Weigh-Tronix, the West-Midlands based manufacturer of industrial scales and weighing equipment, has announced its intention to sell its food retail weighing business, Avery Berkel, in order to f... [more]