SSL International, under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for overstating results in 1999 and 2000, has said that it might sell its Marigold gloves business as part of a restructuring that wo... [more]

Gameplay's future looks bleak now that the online video games retailer, which was backed by Dixons, BT, and Sky has failed to find a buyer. Gameplay reported losses of £197m on sales of £79,000!... [more]

365 Corporation, the Internet and telecoms company which was worth over £600m at the height of the dotcom boom is expected to announce a major restructuring. It is understood that the company will di... [more]

The Body shop is again up for sale and it may receive a bid from its American Partner. Two deals have failed one with Lush and the other with Mexico's Grupo Omnilife.... [more]

Oliver Peyton is said to be selling his flagship restaurant, Isola. He set it up three years ago at a cost of £4m but it is understood to be averaging a turnover of £50,000 per week and offers will b... [more]

Troubled Bioglan Pharma has put itself up for sale after revealing that a review of its controversial interim profits announcement had resulted in the loss increasing by £10.9m to £45.6m for the six m... [more]

Ferraris, the medical equipment manufacturer, is preparing to sell the last of its engineering interests to fund acquisitions. ... [more]

Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy, the world' s largest luxury goods group, considers its loss making retailing division which includes Duty Free Shoppers and the Sephora cosmetics chain to be a non-core bu... [more]

WPP is to acquire Global Sportnet Beteiligungs, the German sports marketing agency with 16 staff... [more]

CSS Stellar has acquired The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group, the London-based talent agency, for up to £22m... [more]

Torex has acquired McKeown Software, the Letchworth-based supplier of financial and procurement systems to the NHS, for £12m... [more]

Blue Band Express has undergone a management buy-in for undisclosed terms, and plans to provide a nationwide delivery service from its 13 depots... [more]

Lloyds TSB has acquired CashFriday, the Gloucester-based provider of funding and payroll services to the temporary recruitment sector, for £10m, in order to expand its Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance op... [more]

Whitehead Mann is to acquire Baines Gwinner, the financial and professional services executive search firm with offices in London and New York, for £10m... [more]

Biddle, the Nuneaton-based heating manufacturer, has been acquired by Carver of Walsall for £13m... [more]

Ferschl has acquired Cleveland Flexible Engineering, the Teesside-based manufacturer of stainless steel flexible hoses, and is now looking to increase capacity at its tubeform division and invest in n... [more]

Firth Rixson is selling its Enpar alloy and stainless steel distribution business in Germany to Bohler-Uddeholm of Austria for £4.7m... [more]

Lander Carlisle has acquired the assembly department, main plant and warehouse from the receivers of Halesowen-based car components manufacturer Plastic Moulding... [more]

Tribal has acquired APD Technical for up to £10m, and is planning to raise £21m in a share placing to fund further acquisitions for its professional support services business... [more]

Thomsons, the Manchester-based independent financial adviser, has been acquired by AWD of Germany for £31m... [more]