French restaurant operator, Groupe Flo, owner of the Cafe Flo brasserie chain, has decided to sell its nine London brasseries prompted by sliding sales. ... [more]

Leading Canadian and US beer companies have entered the race to buy Carling, the UK’s leading lager brand, which Belgian drinks company Interbrew has been forced to sell by the UK government. ... [more]

Highbury House Communications has acquired DMG World Media's Power Portfolio of magazines for £0.8m in order to expand its Cumulus Business Media subsidiary... [more]

Seascope is to acquire Braemar Tankers the tanker broking company for £7.3m as part of a strategy to create one of the world's largest ship broking and marine professional services groups... [more]

Textflow is expanding its Belfast-based printing business with the acquisition of the Northern Ireland operations of logistics company Astron... [more]

Marlborough Stirling is to acquire Exchange FS the operator of trading platforms for £87m in order to expand its financial services software business... [more]

Privately owned Just Learning, a nursery business, has appointed BDO Stoy Hayward to find a buyer for the chain. It is expected to fetch between £10m and £20m.... [more]

Chorion, the leisure and media business, is in talks that could lead to a break up of Whizalpha, the £180m nightclubs business owned by Candover, the venture capital group. ... [more]

Atlantic Telecom has put itself up for sale, but has warned that it is unable to determine the value of its shares amid an everlasting wrangle with bondholders calling for the company to wind itself u... [more]

Woolworths’ head office has been put up for sale by Kingfisher. The split between Kingfisher and Woolworths’ was completed last month but this property is still owned by Kingfisher’s retail property s... [more]

Shearings Holidays, the coach company that takes pensioners on package breaks, is being put up for sale at £130m. Shearings has already attracted interest from 3i, part owner of Wallace Arnold, First ... [more]

Cromwells Madhouse, the discount menswear retailer, has put itself up for sale with an estimated price tag of up to £15m. Cavendish Corporate Finance has been appointed to find a buyer for the busines... [more]

Jigsaw Group, a leading chain of private nursery schools, is on sale for up to £60m. Investment bank SG Hambros have been appointed to sell the business. ... [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]