Acquisition Resources

Pub and restaurant operator, Mitchells & Butlers, is currently preparing for an auction. The business could sell for £2.5bn. Private equity bidders for the West Midlands-based owner of O’Neills and A... [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 formal selling process. At least five UK and US teleco... [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, courtesy of Eastwoods, making it Northern Ireland's m... [more]

Adnams, the Southwold brewery, has appointed agents Christie & Co to sell nine of its pubs. The company, which has a portfolio of 80 public houses, said it had identified the nine suitable for disposa... [more]

Hotel and conference centre operator Principal Hayley Group is to acquire three Marriott hotels for over £50m. ... [more]

Harry Ramsden's, the iconic fish and chip restaurant chain, could soon be up for sale according to reports. ... [more]

Scottish millionaire Sir Tom Hunter has extended his garden centre empire with the acquisition of Somerset-based Sanders Garden World, the South West's largest purpose-built garden centre, for £15m. T... [more]

Dawnay Shore Hotels, the hotel group established by Dawnay, Day and Shore Capital in 2004, which owns and operates a chain of twenty leading four and five star hotels in the UK, has announced the outc... [more]

Privately-owned UK football club Charlton Athletic has announced that it has hired Seymour Pierce Limited to consider a range of strategic options.... [more]

MAMA Group, manager to bands such as Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Cheifs, has announced its intention to exercise its option to buy famous London music venues Mean Fiddler, Borderline, Jazz Cafe and... [more]

Hilton Hotels Corporation has announced the recent completion of the sale of the Caledonian Hilton hotel to The Caledonian Operating Company Ltd UK for the cash sum of £51.7m. ... [more]

Pub chain Greene King has bought the Loch Fyne seafood chain in a £68.1m deal.... [more]

Leisure group Georgica has announced the sale of its Rileys snooker halls business to the European private equity arm of Greenhill and North Atlantic Value for £34.1m. Following the sale, Georgica ha... [more]

D&D London, formerly known as Conran Restaurants, has announced that it has agreed terms to acquire Image Restaurants, the owner of The Avenue, Kensington Place and Launceston Place in London. These t... [more]

19 UK hotels belonging to former hotel business Queens Moat Houses are to be put up for sale by Goldman Sachs, parent company of owner Whitehall Funds.The hotels, now mostly operating under Holiday ... [more]

Whitbread PLC has announced that it has conditionally agreed to sell David Lloyd Leisure to Versailles Bidco Limited, a company owned by London & Regional Holdings Limited and Bank of Scotland Corpora... [more]

Brewer and pub operator Marston’s has sold a package of 279 tenanted pubs to commercial property investment group Piccadilly Licensed Properties for £82.5m in cash, which will be used to reduce debt.... [more]

Gaming firm Rank, owner of the Mecca Bingo brand, have sold one of its bingo halls and has put nine others up for sale in preparation for July’s smoking ban.... [more]

Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group Plc has announced the sale of its Malmaison and Hotel du Vin Property Portfolio to Vector Hospitality, for a minimum value of £495.1m. ... [more]

Racecourse operator Northern Racing has agreed to a takeover by UK property billionaires the Reuben Brothers. NR Acquisitions, a newly-incorporated subsidiary of Aldersgate Investments Limited, was ... [more]