Hanson is to sell HBcE, its European brick manufacturing business, to Wienerberger for £39m... [more]

There is market talk that Thistle, which also operates regional hotels in Britain, was considering selling some London properties for £430m to revive its share price. That would also allow the hoteli... [more]

Three spirits companies have submitted bids for Malibu, the rum brand being auctioned by Diageo, the UK drinks group. Pernod Ricard, Allied Domecq and Fortune Brands have all submitted first round bid... [more]

Taylor Woodrow has sold the UK tower crane hire business of Taywood Plant to Kier Plant for £2.4m, in order to focus on housing, property, construction and engineering... [more]

Gresham Trust has sold John Hampden Press, the manufacturer of branded retailer packaging with 125 staff, to management for £2.6m, and the business is being renamed John Hampden Packaging... [more]

Jubb has acquired Barclay Stuart Plastics, the Luton-based manufacturer of bottles and caps, and the two businesses will be combined onto its Leicester site... [more]

Gamma Global, the distributor of computer equipment with 40 staff at sales offices in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Italy, has been sold to management for undisclosed terms... [more]

McDonald's has sold 26 of its Aroma coffee bars to Caffe Nero for about £3.5m, taking the Caffe Nero chain to more than 100... [more]

Morrells, the Oxford beer and pub company acquired three years ago by Michael Cannon, the US based leisure entrepreneur, is up for sale for up to £80m. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to con... [more]

GlaxoSmithKline has been asked to sell off its consumer goods business, which includes the Ribena, Horlicks and Lucozade Brands. Several interested parties, including trade buyers have had informal d... [more]

The Media firm Kirch, with debts of £3.5bn is being forced to sell of assets such as a controlling share of SLEC which owns Formula One's commercial rights.... [more]

The Unique Pub Company and the Voyager Pub Group have been put up for sale for an estimated £2bn. Shroder Salomon Smith Barney is contacting potential buyers about the 4,300 pubs... [more]

Simon is to acquire Forthline, the operator of container services between Grangemouth and Rotterdam, from Forth Ports for £0.3m, and the business will be combined with its Seawheel European network... [more]

Stadium Group has sold its Consumer Products Division, which distributes branded automotive and furniture products, to management for £1m. ... [more]

BFD Group has acquired Crowson's & Sons, the cheese supplier, gaining access to warehouse space in Cheltenham and catering customers in London... [more]

EMI is considering a sale of non core assets to address City concerns about its £1.1bn debt pile and avoid a short term cash crunch that threatens the dividend. The worlds third-largest music group i... [more]

Oystertec is to acquire Europower, the manufacturer of fluid and gas hoses, for GBP 12m, funded by a GBP 10m share placing... [more]

John Menzies Aviation Group is to acquire Fr8, the Dutch cargo handling company with 440 staff at Schiphol and Rotterdam airports, for GBP 4.8m.... [more]

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Scottish & Newcastle is to acquire Hartwall, the Finnish beer and soft drinks company, for GBP 1.2bn, gaining a 50% stake in Russia's leading brewer Baltic Beverages Holdings... [more]