William Hill has sold its sports spread betting business to IG Group for £1.1m... [more]

Finelist has sold Autela and Edmunds Walker to Bulldog Express for about £2m which will create an enlarged car parts distribution group with 350 staff... [more]

Whitbread, the leisure company which recently sold its pub division, has recently put its Curzons health chain up for a sale which could net up to £20m. The group has decided to sell its 12 gyms to fo... [more]

Swissair's owner, SAIR Group, is believed to be in advanced negotiations with a major Asian hotel group, thought to be Raffles Holdings, over the £400m sale of its Swissotel hotel chain. SAir is belie... [more]

Kingfisher is in talks to sell VCI, its video and publishing offshoot, for between £40m and £50m. The sale of VCI is part of the plans for a full demerger of the Kingfisher group and is believed to ha... [more]

Brooks Brothers, the menswear chain being sold off as part of Marks and Spencer's restructuring is likely to have an asking price of $400m. Analysts believe that the chain, one of America's prestige b... [more]

Gameplay, the troubled online computer games retailer, has appointed Commerzbank to look at options available to the company. One possibility is the disposal of its boxed games and technology division... [more]

MMT Computing has been in talks about the possible disposal of MMT Energy, following difficulties in its business and IT solutions division. Delays in deregulating the US energy market, which had held... [more]

Crown Prince Abdullah, heir to the Saudi throne and one of the largest private investors in Energis, is considering selling all or part of his stake in the UK telecommunications company because of its... [more]

Winterthur Life, the life insurance subsidiary of Credit Suisse, has put its specialist pensions administration business up for sale for around £50m. They are believed to have called in Fox Pitt Kelto... [more]

Vivendi Universal, the media group, has put Oddbins, the chain of high street off licences, up for sale. Potential buyers include First Quench, a company owned by Nomura that includes the Thresher and... [more]

Scoot.com, the troubled online directory business, is in talks to sell Loot, the classified advertising business it bought nine months ago for £177m. Trader.com, a French rival is understood to have a... [more]

Bourne Leisure is preparing to sell Oasis, the Lake District holiday village, for about £65m. Centre Parcs is believed to be the most obvious buyer. Bourne Leisure has embarked on a disposal programme... [more]

Arcadia, the high street fashion group, is to sell Wade Smith, the Liverpool-based designer retailer it bought in 1998 for £17.3m. One possibility is to sell the retailer to management for £10m. ... [more]

BT is in talks with private equity groups Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst to sell its online yellow pages arm Yell for about £3bn. BT needs cash to meet its target of cutting a third of it... [more]

Powergen, the electricity group that has been sold to Germany's Eon, has announced it is putting its combined heat and power business, CHP, up for sale as this division is no longer considered core to... [more]

In the meantime, Eon has pledged to sell its Degussa chemical division after agreeing to buy Powergen in a deal worth £9.6bn. To comply with US regulations Eon also will sell its real estate activitie... [more]

Compass Group has sold its Posthouse and Heritage chains for more than £1bn cash and is hoping to sell the luxury chain Le Meridien for around £2bn. Marriott International and Nomura International, th... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance is in talks with Aegon, its Dutch rival, over a £1bn-plus sale of its life insurance division. Its fund-management arm is also for sale.... [more]

The Industry Standard Europe, the European version of the Silicon Valley new economy magazine, is considering a possible sale or equity partnership. The magazine is struggling against a downturn in th... [more]