Acquisition Resources

HFL, the Newmarket-based sports forensic testing company with 130 staff, has been sold by the Horserace Betting Levy Board to the Quotient BioResearch consortium of investors for £20m.... [more]

Anglo American, the international mining company that has been the subject of takeover speculation for a number of months, would be more likely to dispose of individual divisions instead according to ... [more]

Elphinstone is to sell the Scottish livestock division of United Auctions to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Petrofac has acquired a 51% stake in SPD Group, the oil well services company with 70 staff in Aberdeen and Dubai, for £3.5m.... [more]

Vetco Gray, the global oil services company with 870 staff in Aberdeen and 286 in Montrose, is to be acquired by General Electric of the US for almost £1bn.... [more]

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, the UK state-owned nuclear power company, has begun the disposal of assets by launching the sale of its reactor sites management business.... [more]

Cookson is to sell its US-based Monofrax fused-cast refractories business to RHI of Austria for £23m.... [more]

Scottish Power has acquired the Hatfield Moor gas storage site in South Yorkshire from Edinburgh Oil & Gas for £11m.... [more]

UK airport operator BAA could be forced to put some of its airports up for sale after a report from the Office of Fair Trading urged an enquiry into its stranglehold on the UK market.... [more]

Birmingham International Airport could soon be put up for sale following reports that the Australian bank Macquarie intends to sell its 24% stake to the West Midlands councils who together already own... [more]

Renewable energy group Infinis is thought to be up for sale or a flotation and could fetch up to £800m. Owners Terra Firma Capital Partners have apparently appointed Deutsche Bank, Climate Change Capi... [more]

Exxonmobil, the global oil company, has put a package of its stakes in Southern North Sea oil and gas fields on the market for over £200m. The package includes stakes in the Lancelot, Thames and Hewet... [more]

Industry insiders familiar with international mining group Anglo American believe that the company could look at the sale of its Tarmac and Tongaat divisions in order to focus on its core mining busin... [more]

Scottish Power, the Glasgow-based power generation and distribution group, is to be acquired by Iberdrola of Spain for £11.6bn."The combination of the two businesses will enable ScottishPower to compe... [more]

The chief executive of Lonmin, the London and Johannesburg-listed platinum producer, has clarified that the business is not for sale in the wake of recent speculation. Brad Mills said that although th... [more]

Nottingham City Council has sold Tollerton Airport to Truman Aviation for about £5m, and the site will be renamed Nottingham City Airport and used for pilot training and an air taxi service.... [more]

Slough Estates, the UK property and investment development company, has put its US arm up for sale as it prepares to convert itself into a real estate investment trust (REIT). The US business provides... [more]

Derwent Valley, the London commercial property developer, is to acquire property firm London Merchant Securities in a deal worth £1bn after seeing off competition from Great Portland Estates.... [more]

West Coast Energy, the renewable energy provider based in Wales and Scotland, is tipped to sell off a number of its UK wind projects following the sale of the Darracott wind farm to Iberdola, the Span... [more]

The five councils of West Yorkshire have reached agreement to put Leeds Bradford Airport up for sale, with advisers Ernst and Young expected to send out information to interested parties today.  ... [more]