SFI the pub operator is to acquire Break for the Border from Capital Bars of Dublin for £4.7m... [more]

HR Owen has acquired Jack Barclay the London-based Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealership from Dutton Forshaw for undisclosed terms... [more]

Standard Chartered has sold its Chartered Trust leasing and motor finance subsidiary to Lloyds TSB for £627m and has also announced the acquisition of Chase Manhattan's credit card business in Hong Ko... [more]

Cinven is selling General Hospitals the private hospitals group to private equity firm BC Partners £1.2bn.... [more]

British Telecom has sold its aeronautical and maritime communications division to Stratos Global of Canada for £157m as part of a strategy to reduce debt by selling non-core operations... [more]

£65m.2000AI Group has acquired the mechanical components operation of Stafford-based Alstom T&D Protection & Control for about £2m which will involve the transfer of 150 staff... [more]

EBC Group has acquired FR Bartlett the Yeovil-based building contractor from Hunting Gate for a nominal sum... [more]

Anglo American is to sell Tarmac America to Titan Cement of Greece for £430m... [more]

Kvaerner is selling its building and civil engineering operations to Skanska of Sweden for £356m and the deal will include about 5000 employees in its UK construction business... [more]

Mason Coatings has sold its transport coatings and graphics activities to Akzo Nobel for £9.4m which is expected to lead to job losses at its Derby factory... [more]

Ann Street Group has expanded its chain of Lionheart restaurants to 30 with the £10m acquisition of six Bluebeckers and five Edwinns outlets... [more]

Carphone Warehouse has bought 27 French stores from Multiples for £8.7m and they will be rebranded as The Phone House... [more]

CGNU is to sell General Accident Versicherung its German general insurance business to Gerling-Konzern Lebensversicherung for undisclosed terms... [more]

United News & Media is to sell Miller Freeman Europe the operator of more than 100 trade shows to Reed Elsevier for £360m... [more]

Tanner Foods has acquired the long-life milk business of Lancashire Dairies and production will be moved to its site in Essex... [more]

John Wood Group is planning to acquire 80% of Mustang Engineering the US oil engineering and design company for £74m... [more]

InterX is to sell its Ideal Hardware distribution business to Bell Microproducts of the US for up to £18m in order to focus on its internet business... [more]

Scottish Power has sold its Hamilton-based electrical contractingbusiness to Alstom for undisclosed terms... [more]

RP Hodson has bought a 76% stake in John Wimble Insurance Brokers the London City brokerage for about £1.8m... [more]

Hepworth has sold Hepworth Minerals & Chemicals to Watts Blake Bearne a subsidiary of Belgium's SCR-Sibelco for £86m... [more]