Grampian Holdings is to sell its chain of 270 Edinburgh Woollen Millshops to Ever 1489 a new company formed by Rutland Trust for £49m... [more]

Horizon Technology has bought parts of eNet Systems out of receivership for £0.8m for its IT solutions business ... [more]

Sopheon is to acquire the Technology and Information Services division of Aventis Research gaining access to the German market for the supply of software solutions to the life sciences sector... [more]

IMI has sold six non-core industrial valves businesses including Bailey Birkett Amal and Marston Bursting Discs in the UK to Tyco of the US for £55m... [more]

Legal & General is to sell its Fairmont financial services business to Brown Shipley for £35m... [more]

Hanover International is to acquire Acropolis Hotels which owns the CedarCourt Hotel in Bradford from Sirdar for £14m as part of a strategy to expand its Tweed Investments joint venture with Bank of S... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland has acquired the Italian and German motor insurance operations of Allstate of the US for undisclosed terms as part of a strategy to expand its Direct Line subsidiary into contin... [more]

PC Harrington has acquired the slipform operation of RMD Kwikform for undisclosed terms and the new Aldridge-based business will be known as Slipform International... [more]

Booth Industries is to acquire Jordan Engineering UK and Jordan Fabrications from MacLellan Group for about £4m... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance is to sell its Canadian life insurance business to the Maritime Life Assurance Company for £110m... [more]

Artisan has sold three regional contractors - Drivers Construction Gryphon Estates and Bickerton Construction - to Mea Corporation for £2.8m... [more]

Scottish & Newcastle is selling 432 managed pubs to Enterprise Inns for £263m and 214 pubs to Noble House Leisure for £97m and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt... [more]

Presswork Partnerships has acquired KAB Pressings of Wolverhampton from holding company Ricor to create a combined car parts business with turnover of £10m and a workforce of more than 100... [more]

Stagecoach is selling its Portuguese bus operations to an unnamed company for £14m as part of a strategy to focus on the UK US New Zealand and Hong Kong... [more]

Churchill Insurance is to acquire AMP's general insurance operations in the UK for £80m which will involve the transfer of about 420 Peterborough-based staff... [more]

CGNU is to acquire Fortis Australia from Fortis Group for £111m in order to expand its general insurance business in Australia... [more]

Premier Farnell is to acquire Buck & Hickman the industrial product catalogue distributor with 29 UK branches from Charles Baynes for £65m... [more]

WR Group has bought Westward Refrigeration Service from Linde Refrigeration of Germany for undisclosed terms as part of a strategy to provide full refrigeration facilities to retailers throughout the ... [more]

Rexam is selling its MiTek building products business in the US which manufactures steel connectors for roofing timbers to Berkshire Hathaway for £275m... [more]

Merant is to sell its Merant Micro Focus software tools business to Golden Gate Capital and Parallax Capital Partners of the US for £45m in order to focus on e-commerce... [more]