WR Group the Leicester-based refrigeration company has bought NRC's supermarket services and maintenance business in Wellingborough from Stratagem Group for undisclosed terms... [more]

Rentokil is to sell its US plant hire business to Ashtead for £320m and the proceeds will be used to fund a share buy-back programme... [more]

Pure Asphalt of Bolton has bought the mastic asphalt division of TotalFina in order to increase its UK market share to 25%... [more]

Tate & Lyle is to sell its US grains business to JD Keiskell for about £35m prompting speculation that its US sugar business could be sold next... [more]

Biwater Industries the pipeline manufacturing subsidiary of the Biwater group has been acquired by St Gobain of France for undisclosed terms. ... [more]

Alvis is selling a division that manufacturers bomb disposal robots to Northrop Grumman of the US for £1.4m and job losses are expected among the 31 Coventry-based workers... [more]

Keystone Software has acquired the legal software division of US-based BISPoint Technologies for £5m partly funded by a £2.4m share placing... [more]

Morgan Crucible is selling its Laser Diode subsidiary which makes equipment for the fibre-optic communications industry to Tyco International for £16m... [more]

Spring Ram is selling three Scunthorpe-based kitchen divisions to Design Academy securing the future of about 70 jobs... [more]

Rexam has sold its printing division to John Mansfield for £318m and John Mansfield has also announced plans to sell the recently-acquired Waddington's food service and pharmaceutical packaging operat... [more]

Stagecoach has announced a conditional agreement to sell its Porterbrook train leasing business to Abbey National for £773m and will use the proceeds to reduce debt... [more]

Johnston Press has sold S&E Distributors to JA Magson the York-based stationery wholesaler... [more]

Tilbury Douglas has sold its Scottish house building business to Persimmon for £23m in order to focus on service-related activities. ... [more]

Rank has sold Pinewood Studios to a consortium backed by 3i for £62m which could be followed by the sale of its remaining film-related activities... [more]

Smiths Industries is to acquire Actuation Systems the US-based aircraft utilities business from BAE Systems for £63m... [more]

Rank is selling its chain of 75 Odeon cinemas to Cinven for £280m and the business will be merged with Cinven's 57 ABC cinemas... [more]

Border Construction has bought Finlaysons the Galashiels-based roofing and joinery business from the Lothian and Borders Co-operative Society... [more]

Courtaulds Textiles is to sell its Standfast and Weavestyle furnishings operations to Walker Greenbank for £9m and is now looking to sell Zorbit nursery products and Christy towels... [more]

Kerry Group has sold its DCA bakery business in the US and Canada to Pillsbury the Diageo subsidiary for £62m... [more]

Aberdeen Asset Management has acquired the fund management arm of the Irish state electricity company ESB for £5.8m... [more]