Keystone Software has acquired the legal software division of US-based BISPoint Technologies for £5m partly funded by a £2.4m share placing... [more]

Morgan Crucible is selling its Laser Diode subsidiary which makes equipment for the fibre-optic communications industry to Tyco International for £16m... [more]

Spring Ram is selling three Scunthorpe-based kitchen divisions to Design Academy securing the future of about 70 jobs... [more]

Rexam has sold its printing division to John Mansfield for £318m and John Mansfield has also announced plans to sell the recently-acquired Waddington's food service and pharmaceutical packaging operat... [more]

Stagecoach has announced a conditional agreement to sell its Porterbrook train leasing business to Abbey National for £773m and will use the proceeds to reduce debt... [more]

Johnston Press has sold S&E Distributors to JA Magson the York-based stationery wholesaler... [more]

Tilbury Douglas has sold its Scottish house building business to Persimmon for £23m in order to focus on service-related activities. ... [more]

Rank has sold Pinewood Studios to a consortium backed by 3i for £62m which could be followed by the sale of its remaining film-related activities... [more]

Smiths Industries is to acquire Actuation Systems the US-based aircraft utilities business from BAE Systems for £63m... [more]

Rank is selling its chain of 75 Odeon cinemas to Cinven for £280m and the business will be merged with Cinven's 57 ABC cinemas... [more]

Border Construction has bought Finlaysons the Galashiels-based roofing and joinery business from the Lothian and Borders Co-operative Society... [more]

Courtaulds Textiles is to sell its Standfast and Weavestyle furnishings operations to Walker Greenbank for £9m and is now looking to sell Zorbit nursery products and Christy towels... [more]

Kerry Group has sold its DCA bakery business in the US and Canada to Pillsbury the Diageo subsidiary for £62m... [more]

Aberdeen Asset Management has acquired the fund management arm of the Irish state electricity company ESB for £5.8m... [more]

ITE Group is to acquire the E-Business exhibition from Redman Media for up to £10m... [more]

Specialist Computer Holdings has acquired the computer distribution business of Buhrmann of the Netherlands for about £115m in order to meet rising demand for pan-European IT services... [more]

Morgan Crucible is to sell its power industry products business to Tyco International of the US for £44m... [more]

Dawson International is to sell its Pringle knitwear business to Fang Brothers Knitting of Hong Kong for about £5m... [more]

Utilitec has sold its Kenton Utilities mechanical and civil engineering business to a management buy-out for £13m... [more]

Science Systems the software company is to buy CODA from Baan of the Netherlands for £32m as part of a strategy to become a leader in the field of internet-based financial services... [more]