Vosper Thornycroft is to acquire Merlin Communications, the communications facilities management company, for £95m... [more]

Alito Colour Group has bought Keldia, the Walthamstow-based printing company, out of administration and is planning to move to larger London premises early next year... [more]

Photobition's receivers have sold 14 photo labs to a new company called Service Graphics... [more]

United Packaging, the Cleckheaton-based manufacturer of stretch wrapping machines, has been acquired by MJ Maillis of Greece... [more]

Obvious Solutions has acquired Icarus, the Manchester-based recruitment consultancy, for £0.5m, and is now looking to expand into London and the US... [more]

MG Rover and HBOS are forming a joint venture to acquire the car company's former financial services division from BMW for £340m... [more]

Latchways is to acquire HCL Group for £2.4m, in order to expand its safety systems installation business... [more]

The sale of Brook's Brothers, Marks & Spencer's US department store chain, which could have raised up to £250m, could be stopped. The retailer had shortlisted three bidders but it allowed them to revi... [more]

Reemstma, the world's fourth largest cigarette company, is being auctioned by Merrill Lynch for up to £3.7bn. Potential bidders include Imperial Tobacco of Britain, as well as Altadis and Japan Tobacc... [more]

Commerzbank, Germany's fourth largest bank, is understood to be reviewing the future of Jupiter, the British fund manager it bought six years ago. No sales memorandum has been issued yet but it is bel... [more]

Guy Hands, the financier leaving Nomura to set up his own fund, has put up Inn Partnership, one of the three pub companies he controls, for sale at approximately £500m. Schroder Salomon Smith Barney h... [more]

British Airways is to start its £2bn property disposal. It hopes to raise £200m from the sale of non-operational or inefficient properties. The majority of BA's property is in the UK. ... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance, the UK based insurance group, is considering selling its 72% stake in Codan, the Danish listed insurer, as part of a plan to raise £800m to take advantage of a surge in insurance... [more]

Brewin Dolphin, the stockbroker, has acquired Russell Newth for an initial £0.9m... [more]

Creston has acquired Real Adventure Marketing Communications, the Bath-based marketing services company, for £7.2m... [more]

QSP's intellectual property assets have been bought out of receivership by Walker Interactive Systems of the US, saving about 100 Tyneside jobs... [more]

Atlantic Telecom's UK business is poised to be broken up after talks over the sale of the operation collapsed. PwC, the receivers, have said that of the assets, Fixed wireless operation, a cable busi... [more]

Prudential is likely to sell its general insurance arm and cut up to 1,000 jobs this month, as part of a three month strategic review. It is expected to fetch £350m-£400m. ... [more]

TXU, Britain's third largest energy supplier, has put its biggest power station up for sale with a price tag of £400m. Scottish Power and Electricite de France are understood to be interested. ... [more]

Coats, the threads and clothing group, is poised to appoint advisors to sell its fashion retail division, which owns the Jaeger and Viyella fashion brands for up to £200m. Jaeger and Viyella operate ... [more]