Consignia, formerly the Post Office, is putting its entire 40,000-strong fleet of vehicles up for sale in a bid to save money. The company is seeking partners for the three main parts of its fleet ser... [more]

Jarvis Newman has acquired TCL Granby the property maintenance company with 110 staff in Mitcham and the City of London... [more]

White Young Green has acquired MCD Consult the Irish civil engineering consultancy for £1.3m... [more]

Carling, Britain’s most popular beer brand, was formally put up for sale yesterday after the Department of Trade and Industry ordered Interbrew, its Belgian owner, to sell either Carling or Bass Brewe... [more]

Apax Partners, one of Europe’s biggest buyout firms, has abandoned the £500m acquisition from Siemens of the Mannesmann plastics machinery business. Sales had deteriorated to such an extent that the a... [more]

Honeycombe Leisure, which operates 70 unbranded managed pubs, has been put up for sale. NM Rothschild in Leeds has been appointed to find a buyer although offers so far have fallen below expectations.... [more]

Jobs.co.uk, the online resource for the underemployed, is the latest B2C site to be savaged by brokers following woeful half-year results. The site has exceeded 120,000 visitors per month. ... [more]

Sugaronline.com, one of the internet’s largest sugar trading portals, has been put up for sale. Assets include a user database of 19,000 registrants and a sugar trading platform. ... [more]

The Gunter estate, one of London’s historic land owners with acres of property in Kensington and Chelsea, has put all of its remaining freeholds on the market with a guide price of £20-£30m. ... [more]

Taylor Nelson Sofres’ telemarketing and direct advertising business could be sold due to poor performance following a global advertising slump. ... [more]

Coats, the restructured threads and clothing group formerly known as Coats Viyella, has ruled out plans to take the company private, despite the cost of reorganisation which continues to eat into pro... [more]

Hotel and restaurant company Whitbread has put 34 of its Brewers Fayre restaurants up for sale. Whitbread denies rumours that it is planning to quit restaurants and focus on its hotel and leisure oper... [more]

Charles Taylor Consulting has acquired the general aviation loss adjusting business of HCC Insurance Holdings of the US for £5.3m.... [more]

Avec Engineering the Ripley-based aerospace components manufacturer has been bought out of receivership by Paul Holdings saving 53 of the 69 jobs... [more]

Smiths Group has sold two non-core businesses for £20m as part of a strategy to focus on aerospace medical and industrials... [more]

Incepta has acquired two sponsorship consultancies - Karen Earl and Redmandarin - for a total £10m... [more]

IFG Group has acquired Saunderson Ventures the London-based supplier of financial advisory services for £7m... [more]

Three Star Engineering has sold its environmental division out of receivership to Adams Hydraulics of York saving 16 jobs and the business will be moved from the Lower Don Valley to new premises in Ba... [more]

Carphone Warehouse is acquiring 13 London stores from Odyssey Corporation the independent phone retailer for £0.6m... [more]

AF Blakemore has acquired I Mogford & Sons the south Wales-based cash and carry depot with turnover of more than £10m... [more]