Amersham is to acquire Motorola Life Science's pre-arrayed slides business for about £13m, in order to expand its biosciences operation.... [more]

Prima Computers, the Nottingham-based IT services company with 40 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

East Surrey Holdings has sold The Classic Water Company, its bottled water supply business with 31 staff in Surrey and Essex, to Culligan International for £3.3m.... [more]

The international operations of Canal Plus, Vivendi Universal's pay-television subsidiary, are to be broken up and sold. The business will now focus on its original activities in France. Vivendi is ho... [more]

Claims Direct the personal injury specialist, now in receivership, has a number of potential buyers. The receivers Deloitte & Touche, are hoping to sell it as a whole or in pieces fairly quickly.... [more]

Advanced Rendering Technology, the Cambridge-based developer of animation software, has been bought out of administration by one of its co-founders, and the company will now be known as ART VPS.... [more]

Greencore has sold Pann Krisp, the Wrexham-based chilled foods manufacturer with 400 staff, to a management buy-in.... [more]

Balaclava Pub Company has acquired the Hobgoblin group of pubs, taking its chain to 54.... [more]

Charlton Kings Engineering has been put into receivership. The sale of the sheet-metal manufacturer is being handled by Deloitte & Touche. ... [more]

Ford is struggling to sell its tyres business, Kwik-fit for £300m. It has offered a loan of £100m to the only remaining interested party, CVC, the private-equity house. All potential buyers have exper... [more]

Kingfisher is being pressured by shareholders to hasten the break-up and disposal of its electricals division, which includes Darty in France and Comet in the UK. UK rival Dixons has expressed interes... [more]

The chain of restaurants, Fish, have been put into administration. Nine of the restaurants are still trading and buyers are being sought. ... [more]

Spirent is to acquire Caw Networks, the US provider of network testing services, for up to £39m.... [more]

Cape is to sell Cape Calsil, the manufacturer of passive fire protection and insulation products, to Promat Glasgow for £9.2m, which will involve the transfer of staff at sites in Glasgow, Caerphilly,... [more]

Glanbia is to sell its UK foodservice distribution business to Peter's Food Service for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 500 staff at a central facility in Tamworth and eight regi... [more]

Wheatley Packaging, the flexible packaging printer with 140 staff, has been acquired by Frantschach Group, the Austrian printer.... [more]

HgCapital is supporting a management buy-out of Castlebeck Care, the Darlington-based specialist care provider with 358 staff in 10 centres. ... [more]

Marks & Spencer has sold Kings, the chain of 29 US supermarkets, to D'Agostino for £101m.... [more]

Memory Lane Cakes is to undergo a £9.5m reverse takeover by cash shell Megalomedia, creating a new group called Finsbury Foods.... [more]

IMI is to sell its copper fittings business to Aalberts Industries of the Netherlands for £65m, in order to focus on fluid controls and beverage dispensing.... [more]