Moss Pharmacy has acquired Harry Cockburn the chain of eight Scottish pharmacies for undisclosed terms... [more]

Enviros the environmental consultancy with 250 staff is to undergo a £17m management buy-out backed by ECI Ventures... [more]

Powell Duffryn is to sell Geesink Norba the Dutch manufacturer of refuse vehicles to Oshkosh Truck of the US for £91m in order to focus on ports and shipping... [more]

Serco is to acquire AEA Technology's technical consulting division for about £75m... [more]

Morgan Grenfell Private Equity is to put a package of 70 pubs up for sale, including the Dome chain of cafe-bars, following its £1.6bn acquisition of Whitbread's bars division. Its investment will be... [more]

Belgian brewer Interbrew could offer to sell Britain's biggest-selling beer, Carling, in an attempt to win approval for its takeover of Bass Brewers, according to City sources. It is believed that Car... [more]

Uniq, the convenience food group formerly known as Unigate, is currently in talks to sell its Malton Foods business, the pig slaughtering and processing subsidiary that incurred full-year trading and ... [more]

Heal's, the home furnishing retailer, has put itself up for sale after reporting an 8 per cent rise in first-half profits. In the four years since the company had floated profits have nearly doubled, ... [more]

One.Tel has collapsed into administration with debts of $92m. The company is likely to go into liquidation. The UK arm of One.Tel is said to be worth £61.3m and potential buyers are looking at the bus... [more]

Securicor, the security, distribution and communication group, has announced that it is in advanced talks to sell its US wireless communications business, Securicor Wireless, which last year made a lo... [more]

Gameplay, the computer games retailer that is facing a cash crisis, has put itself up for sale after admitting that recent disposals had not generated sufficient proceeds to take it through to profita... [more]

Sun Life Financial Services, Canada's second-largest life insurer, has put the fund management business of Sun Life of Canada, its British subsidiary, up for sale in a deal which could be worth around... [more]

Kingfisher has settled for a demerger of Woolworths and Superdrug as it called off talks about potential sales of the high street chains. The announcement ended months of uncertainty for Kingfisher, a... [more]

Virgin.net has emerged as the latest UK internet service provider to be put up for sale as the sector consolidates around a few leading brands. Lehman brothers have been appointed to oversee the sale.... [more]

Vivendi Universal has walked away from talks to buy Scoot. This breakdown has occurred only a month after Scoot rejected Vivendi's suggested price of 15p a share. Scoot is believed to be considering o... [more]

Remy Cointreau, the French drinks group, may divest some brands following the £310m acquisition of Bols, the Dutch producer of Blue Curacao. The group intends to rationalise itself and this could invo... [more]

Senior executives at Trinity Mirror are considering the sale of the Sunday People, the struggling tabloid newspaper. Sunday Sport and the Express Group are believed to be interested in the paper, valu... [more]

Venture capital group 3i is thought to have entered the race to buy Aer Lingus, the Irish state airline put up for sale by the Dublin government. BA has hinted that it is interested in buying a stake ... [more]

Pubmaster plans to raise £150m by selling Wolverhamton & Dudley's brands and brewing division which includes such famous names as Marston's Pedigree and Bank's bitter. Pubmaster intends to sell the op... [more]

John Laing, the 150 year old construction company, is preparing to sell its housebuilding division, Laing Homes with an expected price tag of around £300m. Laing wishes to focus on its activities in c... [more]