PowerGen has sold East Midlands Electricity Contracting to ABB for undisclosed terms... [more]

Riva Group is selling its Business Solutions Division to eXegeSys of the US as part of a restructuring by Riva's parent company Anker that will leave Westhoughton as the group's European head office... [more]

Axis-Shield is acquiring the point-of-care testing business of Nycomed Pharma of Norway for £22m... [more]

Tetley is selling its US coffee businesses to Rowland Coffee Roasters and Mother Parker's Tea & Coffee for undisclosed terms in order to focus on its core teabag brands... [more]

Allied Domecq is to sell its John Bull international pub franchise business to Charles Wells the Bedford family brewer for under £10m... [more]

Aggregate Industries is expanding its US aggregates business with the £23m acquisition of assets from Holst Excavating Mobilcrete and Sioux Valley Ready Mix... [more]

Inmarsat is acquiring part of EAE Group the Aberdeen-based supplier of integrated telecoms systems for £2.6m... [more]

Allied Dunbar is to buy the distribution network of Abbey Life from Lloyds TSB for £100m creating the largest direct life assurance salesforce in the UK... [more]

Low & Bonar is to sell eight North American industrial packaging plants to Hood Companies of the US for £80m... [more]

ERF the Cheshire-based truck maker has been sold by its Canadian parent Western Star to MAN of Germany for about £110m... [more]