Pierre et Vacances, the French leisure group, may make an offer for Center Parcs' continental business. Pierre et Vacances could also launch a bid for the UK division, following interest in this divis... [more]

Alliance UniChem has acquired Holtung, the Norwegian pharmaceuticals wholesaler, for about £4m... [more]

Clifford Thames Printing of Chelmsford has been bought out of receivership by a management team and is being renamed Montrose Press. 03/04/2002... [more]

Bridge Direct, the Nottingham-based print management company with annual turnover of £9m, has been bought out of receivership by local rival PPL... [more]

Shell is to acquire Enterprise Oil, the exploration company operating in the North Sea, Norway and the Gulf of Mexico, for £3.5bn, and up to 400 jobs will be lost at Enterprise's offices in London and... [more]

General Healthcare, the private-hospitals company, is leading the race to buy the Priory Group which was put up for sale by its privately held owner Westminster Healthcare. The price is expected to b... [more]

Global Crossing, the bankrupt communications group, has appointed Close Brothers, the London investment bank, to organise an auction of its UK assets which it hopes will sell for upto £300m.... [more]

Simoco Digital has sold its terminals business out of administration to Kelso Place Asset Management, which will involve the transfer of 76 Cambridge-based staff and a change of name to Sepura... [more]

TeCmail has acquired Inchbrook, the printing company, for undisclosed terms, taking its annual turnover to more than £40m.... [more]