Nuaire, the UK ventilation product company, is being prepared for sale by UK buyout firm ECI Partners. ECI has grown the business since purchasing it for £38m in March 2004, and has now appointed KPM... [more]

Anglo American, the international mining company that has been the subject of takeover speculation for a number of months, would be more likely to dispose of individual divisions instead according to ... [more]

Robert Tchenguiz, the Iranian property tycoon, is tipped to put nine Welcome Break service stations up for sale with an asking price of £365m. Tchenguiz is thought to have hired DTZ to handle the sal... [more]

The Sanctuary Group is considering whether to put some of its businesses up for sale after preliminary results for 2006 revealed another full year of losses.... [more]

Electra Private Equity, the UK-listed private equity company, has reportedly hired Close Brothers to explore a sale of Capital Safety, its height safety equipment manufacturer.... [more]

TRM Corporation, the NASDAQ-listed provider of ATM machines and photocopiers, has sold its UK-based subsidiary, TRM Limited, to NoteMachine.... [more]

Storage entrepreneur Alister Jack has sold his Armadillo self-storage business to the property and infrastructure arm of HSBC for £40m.... [more]

CPL Entertainment Group, the Scottish nightclub operator, has put two of its nightclubs up for sale in order to concentrate on expanding other venues in its portfolio.... [more]

US company Myriad is auctioning off its UK Adams childrenswear business, with five bidders thought to remain in the third and final round. It was hoped that the struggling company would fetch £50m, ho... [more]

Provident Financial, the UK home lending company, has announced it is to commence discussions over the sale of its insurance division after receiving a number of third party approaches. ... [more]

Scottish & Newcastle is to sell its Courage beers business to Wells & Young's Brewing for an estimated £10m, and production will transfer from Tadcaster to Bedford over the next few months.... [more]

Scapa is to sell its sealants business, which is based in Hampshire and employs 71 staff, to Hodgson Sealants for around £4.9m.... [more]

Alba, the London-listed electricals manufacturer, is reportedly considering the sale of a number of its operations. Tipped for disposal are Alba's Grundig brand and its leisure arm, which includes the... [more]

United Utilities is to sell its Vertex Data Science business outsourcing division to a private equity consortium led by Oak Hill Capital Partners for £217m.... [more]

Smiths Group is to sell its London-based aerospace division, which has 11,500 staff and manufacturing facilities in five countries, to General Electric of the US for £2.4bn.... [more]

UK-listed engineering group Melrose is rumoured to be close to a sale of its aerospace division. ... [more]

Aga Foodservice Group, the UK oven maker, has announced it is considering the sale of its US division, Domain.... [more]

Spanish technology group Amadeus is reported to be moving towards a sale of Opodo, its online travel agency, after implementing a restructuring of the business's management team. The new system will p... [more]

Co-operative Group is to acquire 21 pharmacies from Alliance Boots, including branches in County Durham, Northumberland, Devon, Somerset and East Anglia, taking its total chain to 454.... [more]

Associated Newspapers Ireland, a division of UK-listed publishing group Daily Mail and General Trust, is to put Buy and Sell, its classified advertising business, up for sale.... [more]