MICE, the UK-listed marketing services group, has been tipped to make non-core disposals in the new year which could include Blackpool Zoo and some of its aquariums. The businesses would be estimated ... [more]

Amadeus, the Spanish provider of IT solutions to the travel industry, is rumoured to be considering the sale of its online travel agency Opodo. Amadeus purchased Opodo in June 2004 for €62m but source... [more]

Dagsbrun, the Icelandic investment firm specialising in media, telecoms and entertainment companies, is to sell Wyndeham Press Group and its English parent company Daybreak Acquisitions.... [more]

German broadcaster RTL has been tipped to sell Five, its much-maligned UK terrestrial channel, should it succeed in acquiring ITV.... [more]

UK-listed marketing company Media Square is rumoured to be considering a sale of one of its larger UK businesses. The company, which has debts of £24m, is valued at £56m and recently disposed of Karen... [more]

Media Square has sold Karen Earl Sponsorship, the London-based sports sponsorship consultancy, to The Engine Group for £3.5m. KES provides strategic consultancy through to sponsorship activation and o... [more]

Guardian Media Group's chief executive Carolyn McCall has stated that the company would be prepared to sell Trader Media, its listings subsidiary, should it receive an offer of £1.5bn for the business... [more]

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GCap Media, the UK commercial radio group whose brands include Capital Radio and Classic FM, has sold its two Century FM stations to Guardian Media Group for £60m.... [more]

VNU, the global media and information company based in Holland, has announced that it will consider putting its Business Media Europe (BME) division up for sale as part of a strategic review of the co... [more]

There are rumours that Time Warner, the global media group, may be tempted to put IPC, its UK magazine publishing business, up for sale amid increasing levels of interest from private equity groups. ... [more]

Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer is tipped to sell off its education business, Wolters Kluwer Education, after appointing Lehman Brothers to look at strategic alternatives for the division as part of a ... [more]

Henderson Equity Partners is to sell its magazine publishing business, Boat International, with an asking price of £30m. It has reportedly hired boutique advisory firm Longacre to advise on the sale. ... [more]

Saga, the holidays and finance group focused on people over 50, is planning to sell its radio assets, according to reports and it could be worth £100m. The group has hired KPMG Corporate Finance to ma... [more]

SMG, the information and entertainment service provider, is to sell Pearl & Dean, its cinema advertising business, and Primesight, its outdoor advertising business. An offer for Pearl & Dean from Iris... [more]

Medal Entertainment & Media has sold the Fountain Television Studios in Wembley to InvestinMedia for £1.5m in cash. At 31st March 2006, Fountain's net assets stood at £1.7m. Fountain are the UK's larg... [more]

Rank Group, the UK-listed leisure company, is to dispose of its remaining Deluxe Media businesses. These consist of a DVD replication and distribution business in the US and a Central European distrib... [more]

The Mill, the UK-based post-production media group, has appointed LongAcre Partners to look into selling the business. The investment bank will consider both a float and a secondary buyout. The Mill i... [more]

UK publisher Trinity Mirror could dispose of just its Scottish newspapers. A Numis analyst has said it would not be easy to divide the north-of-the-border titles from the rest but said such a sale cou... [more]

Trinity Mirror, the UK-listed newspaper group, is selling its exhibitions and magazines business for £45m+. KPMG has been appointed as advisor to the sale of the non-core assets, according to sources.... [more]