NCP, the chain of 850 car parks, has been sold by 3i to Macquarie Bank for £790m, but 3i will retain the NCP Services division.... [more]

US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice has reportedly put its European food distribution business, Brakes Bros, up for sale.... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes, is thought to be considering the sale of its drinks business to guard against a potential hostile takeover.... [more]

Euromoney Institutional Investor has sold Raven Fox, the duty-free and luxury goods publishing business with gross assets of £0.7m, to Metropolis Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Cory Environmental, the London-based waste management group with 1,300 staff and ten landfill sites, has been sold by Montagu Private Equity to a consortium led by ABN Amro for £588m.... [more]

Rexam has agreed to sell its glass business to Irish glassmaker Ardagh for €660m (£449m), in a deal that will double Ardagh in size and create the third largest glassmaker in Europe. The sale is subje... [more]

Sir Ray Tindle could reportedly put some of his UK local newspaper and radio assets up for sale. Tindle, now aged 81, plans to step back from the business this year and will scale down his empire of 2... [more]

Trinity Mirror, the UK newspaper group currently in the process of selling off three of its divisions, is likely to hold on to the printing presses and archive libraries of the newspapers that are for... [more]

Findel is to sell its Home Farm Hampers business, which has 7,500 agents and a £8m order book, to Park Group for £0.3m.... [more]

The British Broadcasting Corporation is reportedly considering a strategic review of its BBC Resources operation which could lead to a sale. BBC Resources owns various studios, post-production studios... [more]

Sportech is planning to acquire the Vernons Pools gaming business from Ladbrokes for about £50m, in order to expand its Littlewoods division.... [more]

Norson Group of Aberdeen has sold its Norson Services pipeline operations to BJ Process & Pipeline Services for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of 68 staff.... [more]

Portman Building Society is to sell its Guernsey-based offshore deposit-taking business to Scarborough Building Society, with the transfer of ten staff.... [more]

Perrys has acquired four Vauxhall car dealerships in Bury, Burnley, Clitheroe and Colne from the Vantage Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]

British Vita is to sell its Hyperlast and Autothane elastomer systems operations to Dow Polyurethanes for undisclosed terms, including 170 staff in Derbyshire and Wrexham.... [more]

Inchcape is looking to sell 47 non-core car dealerships, including Ford and Ferrari franchises, as part of a strategy to focus on brands such as Toyota, BMW and Audi.... [more]

Legal & General Ventures is thought to have appointed the investment bank NM Rothschild to review strategic options for its Craegmoor residential care business. The review is understood to be in a ver... [more]

Private equity firm Bowmark Capital has reportedly put two school travel firms up for sale for over £50m. ... [more]

UK-listed communications technology company Spirent has announced it is conducting an “in-depth business review”, following reports a month ago that it may be preparing to sell certain non-core assets... [more]

Kall Kwik, the quick-print business owned by Irish printing group Adare, is rumoured to be up for sale after a source claimed to have seen an information memorandum for the franchise. Speculation over... [more]