Country Valley Foods has acquired the Billingham division of Cocked Hat Farm Foods, with the transfer of 20 staff.... [more]

British banking group HSBC is mulling a sale of its train-leasing division, HSBC Rail. HSBC is under increasing pressure to offload noncore assets in order to generate cash, after huge write-downs res... [more]

Gama Holdings Ltd, an international aviation group, has announced the acquisition of PrivatAir Inc, the US-arm of the PrivatAir Group.Gama, based at Farnborough Airport in the UK, was founded in 1983.... [more]

The chief executive of Standard Life, Sandy Crombie, has suggested that the insurer may sell off its underperforming banking business, which has been experiencing liquidity problems as a result of the... [more]

Southern Cross Healthcare has bought seven residential care homes in the North East from The Portland Group of Durham for £42m.... [more]

Croda International has raised £13m from the sale of its 46% stake in Baxenden Chemicals, the Accrington-based supplier of polyurethane products, to Chemtura Corporation.... [more]