Acquisition Resources

London Clubs International is selling its 50 St James Casino for more than £50m.... [more]

Zurich Financial Services has put up for sale one of its fund management businesses, Threadneedle Investments. The operation has £43 billion of funds under management and could fetch at least £500m. U... [more]

PizzaExpress, the chain with nearly 300 restaurants in the UK is being eyed by potential bidders. It has already received a bid from leisure entrepreneur Hugh Osmond, valuing it at £250m. Former busin... [more]

Advertising agency HHCL may be sold by media group Chime Communications. Due to complete an equity-swap with Red Cell, it is now thought that a cash sale may be considered.... [more]

Topland Group the private property group is selling a fifth of its UK property portfolio. The 70 properties include offices, shops and industrial sites and could fetch around £350m. ... [more]

Logica has acquired Great Lakes Technologies, the US automotive IT solutions company with 220 staff, for £14m.... [more]

Montgomery Transport has acquired Dukes Transport, the Portadown-based road haulage company with 460 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Lion Foods, the Runcorn-based company with 185 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management team.... [more]

P&O is forming a joint venture with CMA-CGM to acquire an 80% stake in Egis Ports, the French container terminal operator, for about £35m.... [more]

Sainsbury has acquired collapsed US retailer Ames, and about 12 of the 18 New England sites will be converted to its Shaw's format.... [more]

Centrica has announced the £304m acquisition of Dynegy Storage and Dynegy Onshore Processing, the owner of the Rough offshore gas storage facility in the North Sea and onshore processing facilities at... [more]

Creston is to acquire EMO Group, the marketing communications company with 57 staff in Swindon and Bristol, for up to £5.7m.... [more]

William Baird is to sell Lowe Alpine, its Kendal-based outdoor sportswear business, to Aspen for £13m.... [more]

Meggitt has sold Wayfarer Transit Systems of Poole and Systech Solutions of Croydon to a management buy-out for £15m.... [more]

Campus Media is to acquire The Get Real Marketing Company, the brand communication company that focuses on students, for up to £1.2m.... [more]

NTP has acquired TTC Training of Woking from ABTA, to create a combined workforce training business with 280 staff.... [more]

Siemens has sold its electronics manufacturing facility in Nottingham to a management buy-out operating under the name of SMS Electronics for undisclosed terms, and all 200 staff will be retained.... [more]

HSBC is to acquire Household International, the US consumer finance company, for £8.6bn.... [more]

Prudential is to sell its German life insurance business to Canada Life for £82m.... [more]

Park Group has acquired Cheshire Securities, the Stockport-based credit services company, for £1.2m, taking its network of branches to 29.... [more]