Interior Services Group is to acquire Square Mile Real Estate Services, the London-based property management company, from Pillar Property for £0.8m.... [more]

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]

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]

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]

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

John Laing is in the process of offloading its development and property division. The group now states: "John Laing has commenced initial discussions with buyers for its subsidiary Laing Property. Th... [more]

Maclay Murray & Spens is to acquire the private client arm of legal firm McGrigor Donald, which will involve the transfer of two partners and 15 staff... [more]

Express Dairies has sold its central Scotland dairy business to Graham's Dairies of Bridge of Alan for £0.5m... [more]

Unilever is to sell its DiverseyLever commercial cleaning business to Johnson Wax Professional of the US for £1.1bn, in order to reduce debt following the acquisition of Bestfoods... [more]

TXU is to sell its West Burton coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire to Electricite de France for £366m, and has confirmed plans to sell its east of England electricity distribution network to E... [more]

Brambles Industries has sold its European rail wagon rental business to Hapag-Lloyd for £222m, and the proceeds will be used to fund bolt-on acquisitions for its information management and waste manag... [more]

Tomkins has acquired American Metal Products, the US supplier of residential air systems with almost 1,000 employees, from Masco Corporation for undisclosed terms... [more]

Lotus has sold its Coventry-based automotive engineering consultancy to HPL Prototypes of Nuneaton, and HPL will gain 35 new staff and relocate its existing workforce to the Lotus site on the Coventry... [more]

Photobition's receivers have sold 14 photo labs to a new company called Service Graphics... [more]

MG Rover and HBOS are forming a joint venture to acquire the car company's former financial services division from BMW for £340m... [more]

The sale of Brook's Brothers, Marks & Spencer's US department store chain, which could have raised up to £250m, could be stopped. The retailer had shortlisted three bidders but it allowed them to revi... [more]

Commerzbank, Germany's fourth largest bank, is understood to be reviewing the future of Jupiter, the British fund manager it bought six years ago. No sales memorandum has been issued yet but it is bel... [more]

Guy Hands, the financier leaving Nomura to set up his own fund, has put up Inn Partnership, one of the three pub companies he controls, for sale at approximately £500m. Schroder Salomon Smith Barney h... [more]