Acquisition Resources

Interactive Prospect Targeting, the direct online marketing group, is to sell off its UK businesses as well as one of its French divisions after a strategic review.The decision was made after the revi... [more]

GKN, the UK-based engineering company, is due to finalise plans to acquire a significant part of the manufacturing site at Filton owned by the French aircraft company, Airbus, after securing about £60... [more]

Gresham Computing has sold its Redstone Software testing and automation division to Testplant for a nominal sum.... [more]

Acertec has sold both the steel reinforcement operations of its BRC subsidiary and its 50% stake in BRC McMahon Reinforcements to Celsa Steel Service in a deal worth £25m.... [more]

Eastlake Group has purchased the furniture manufacturing facility of Greenwood & Wood, which is based in Wakefield, and will relocate its Leeds-based Burdew division to the site.... [more]

Sareum Holdings has sold some of the assets of its Sareum drug discovery service subsidiary to Galapagos of the Netherlands for £600k. Five staff have been transfered to BioFocus DPI in Saffron Walden... [more]

Estate agent Foxtons and BC Partners, its private equity owner, have appointed NM Rothschild to carry out a review of the business, according to reports.Options being considered for the estate agent i... [more]

TT Electronics has purchased the radio frequency, power semiconductors and optoelectronic components business of Lutterworth-based Semelab in a deal worth £10m.... [more]

The Competition Commission has recommended that BAA sells two of its three airports in the South East - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, and one of its two airports in Glasgow and Edinburgh.The recomme... [more]

Britain’s largest proposed offshore wind farms are to be sold off less than a year after the Christofferson Robb hedge fund purchased the project.Christofferson Robb, based in London and New York, pai... [more]

MUI, a listed business in Malaysia, is looking at selling of some of its poor-performing hotels located in the UK as the group continues to review its hotel business. MUI now runs 13 hotels - 11 in t... [more]

Low & Bonar is to sell its Bonar Floors contract flooring business to Forbo Holding of Switzerland for £123m, with the transfer of up to 760 staff.... [more]

Dunelm Group is to acquire the Dorma soft furnishings brand from Dawson International for £5m.... [more]

Gwalia Packaging has acquired AMJ, the South Wales-based toolmaker, in order to add new technology to its Dragon Plastics mould making facility.... [more]

WN Lindsay has acquired the Scottish grain drying and storage operations of Glencore Grain for £3m, including a 70,000t malting barley plant at Stracathro, Brechin.... [more]

Xpertise Group is to acquire the IT training division of Parity for £4.8m, creating a combined group of training centres in London, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, the Thames Valley and the Midlands.... [more]

Pindar is going to sell its Pindar Set directory printing business to Yell. There are no plans for changes to the 1,600 staff or the directory production site in Scarborough.... [more]

The bookmaker William Hill has recently disposed of its 50 per cent share in William Hill Codere Italia, its Italian joint venture, for £4.4m. The sale of the sports betting business will result in a ... [more]

Tate & Lyle has handed over its international sugar trading business to Bunge, US-based oilseed processor.The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The trading business had gross assets of £288m (... [more]

BT is to purchase the Stemmer and SND IT services divisions of Net AG in Germany. The sale includes combined gross assets of £7.7m.... [more]