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 been suggested that the low bids are a strategy to ... [more]

High street womens clothing chain, Select, was put into administration last week after experiencing low trading levels. The action has saved roughly 1,000 jobs in the company.Administrators, UHY Hacke... [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 remedies required to quickly approve the Dutch com... [more]

Men's fashion clothes retailer, Base, have called in Leonard Curtis, to act as their administrators. The family owned company, Granditer Menswear, which has most of its stores in the South East, has 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. A partner with administrator Kroll, Peter Saville was quoted in... [more]

Footwear retailer Stead & Simpson has been sold to rival chain Shoe Zone after a brief spell in administration.Rob Hunt, Bruce Cartwright and Stuart Maddison of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP who were app... [more]

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

Shoe retailer, Dolcis Fell into administration this week. Brian Green, Alan Graham and Howard Smith, joint administrators from KPMG’s restructuring practice are looking at the business and will endeav... [more]

UK based computer game developer, SCi Entertainment is considering selling off its publishing operations.... [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 west Belfast and Dungannon, employing 250 and 140 peo... [more]

Select Retail, the 250-store fashion chain, is on the brink of going into administration, according to reports. The Watford-based firm is said to be the latest victim of the downturn in the retail sec... [more]

Baugur, the Icelandic private equity group, is rumoured to be considering a sale of its Criminal clothing brand, with retail experts tipped to be the most likely acquirers. A sale could result in the ... [more]

Upmarket high-street shoe retailer Kurt Geiger, is up for sale with a price tag of around £100m, according to reports. ... [more]

Fashion retailer LK Bennett is to be put on the market, according to reports that owner Linda Bennett has hired the investment bank Rothschild to advise her on a sale of the business. ... [more]

Private equity group Bridgepoint is preparing for a possible £600m sale or IPO of the UK's largest pet retailer, Pets at Home, and is said to be compiling a shortlist of investment banks to assist wit... [more]

Lookers plc, one of the UK's leading motor retail groups, has announced the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Dutton Forshaw Group Limited, the motor retail division of Lloyds TSB Asse... [more]

Borders Group, Inc. has announced that following a competitive auction process, the company has reached an agreement to sell its U.K. and Ireland subsidiaries to Risk Capital Partners, a London-based ... [more]

Virgin Megastores has been sold by Sir Richard Branson for an undisclosed sum to a management buy-out team. The team was led by managing director Simon Douglas and finance director Steve Peckham, whic... [more]

The Shoe Zone Group has announced that, on 7th September, it exchanged contracts with The Co-operative Group to buy its footwear retail business, Shoefayre, for an undisclosed sum.... [more]