Aegon, the Dutch financial services group, has ended talks with Royal & Sun Alliance about buying the UK group’s life assurance and investment management operation for more than £1bn. There are no cur... [more]

Morgan Grenfell Private Equity is preparing an auction of Coral Eurobet in the first quarter of next year after sale talks fell through over price. The group was originally acquired from Ladbroke Gro... [more]

Senior has sold two industrial businesses to Tyco of the US for GBP1.6m, and is now looking to sell a further six businesses... [more]

NTL has put its transmission unit up for sale. The debt-laden cable TV and telephony group has had an offer from the BBC for part of the unit - the satellite uploading division, but it is thought NTL ... [more]

Fenner is to acquire the Enerka conveyor belt business of Luxembourg-based Unipoly for £47m, in order to become the world's largest supplier of heavyweight belts... [more]

Prudential is to acquire YoungPoong Life, the South Korean insurance company, from Korea Zinc for £20m... [more]

Alba is to acquire Pulse Home Products, the owner of the Breville Europe domestic appliances brand, from the Baxi Group for £12m... [more]

Vp, the equipment outsourcing specialist, has acquired the assets and goodwill of the shoring business of Mechplant from the Shepherd Building Group for £3.1m... [more]

Oyez Straker, the office supplies group, is being put up for sale by Bridgepoint Capital, the private-equity house. Bridgepoint is believed to be seeking offers in the region of £80m-£90m for the busi... [more]

Marks and Spencer’s has announced a deal to sell 18 stores in France to Galeries Lafayette, the department store group. However, it still has to find a buyer for its Belgian stores.... [more]

Amberley has sold its Lawrence Industries mineral and chemicals subsidiary to Phipps & Company for £9.5m... [more]

EMT Healthcare has bought Estchem Wholesale Supplies, the Manchester-based distributor of pharmaceutical products, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Midlands Electricity's power distribution business is being acquired by UtiliCorp of the US for £1.4bn... [more]

Leisure group Whitbread may sell Cafe Rouge, the wine bar chain. Whitbread’s Pelican group of 200 High Street restaurants including Cafe Rouge and Bella Pasta has failed to meet financial targets.... [more]

Cox Radcliffe has sold its Merseyside bakery interests to Preston-based Bako for £3m, in order to focus on supplying the takeaway andrestaurant sectors... [more]

Pendragon is to acquire Ford's 49% stake in their Stripestar joint venture of 28 car dealerships, in a deal worth £5.5m... [more]

Marks & Spencer has agreed to sell 18 French stores to Galeries Lafayette for undisclosed terms, but no buyer has been found for the Belgian stores... [more]

Smiths has sold four vacuum and pressure operations - including Stokes Vakuum, Hibon, Wilhelm Klein and Hick Hargreaves - to BOC Edwards for £13m... [more]

PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, the biotechnology company is in negotiations to sell its needle-free injector technology. Potential buyers include the US drug delivery groups Inhale Therapeutic and Alkerm... [more]

Pubs and brewing group Wolverhampton & Dudley is cutting back efforts to sell its Pitcher & Piano pubs chain. The group wanted at least £65m. ... [more]