Avalon Printing Software of Leicester has been acquired by VantagePoint Systems of Canada for about £0.5m, and will become VantagePoint's retail packaging division.... [more]

WPP has acquired London-based research consultancy HeadlightVision, the Samcor Communications Company in the US and a 60% stake in Chinese PR company H-Line Worldwide.... [more]

Kleeneze is to sell its Tranfood meat processing business to Recordline, in order to raise up to £3m and focus on its direct retail operations.... [more]

Horizon Technology is planning to sell its Cisco Training business, which includes 62 staff in the UK, Italy, Denmark and Sweden to Azlan for £7.4m.... [more]

ICI is to sell its Security Systems operations to US private equity firm Lincolnshire Management, which will involve the transfer of 135 staff.... [more]

Online Travel Corporation has acquired Travelstore.com, Oxford Technology Solutions, Amersham Travel and Equator-net from the Travelstore.com Group for £2.1m.... [more]

Digital Sport is to acquire Time Management Global, the sports management and representation group, for up to £1.8m.... [more]

Bidders are submitting offers for the £613m Anglo-Irish property company Green Property. They include consortiums made up of Lehman Brothers with Treasury Holdings, and Deutsche Bank Real Estate Priv... [more]

The American private-equity investor Madison Dearborn is shortly expected to bid for the takeover and break-up of Irish packaging business Jefferson Smurfitt Group.... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance has appointed Deutsche Bank to sell its life insurance and fund management businesses in Australia and New Zealand for around £600m. The offshore fund manager based in the Isle of... [more]

Carnival is looking to dispose of one of P&O Princess's brands once it has taken over the company, in order to gain EU approval of the move. ... [more]

The former chairman of auction house Sotheby's has announced that he plans to sell his 13.2m shares in the company, said to be worth $185m and representing 62.9% of voting rights. Interest is believed... [more]

Irish drugs company Elan Corporation is expected to announce a restructuring plan which will involve the sale of non-core businesses and investment holdings. The company is valued at $2.5 billion. Go... [more]

First Plus, Barclays' specialist loans subsidiary, is up for sale for around £300m. The company made a profit of £40m last year. It is thought that potential bidders could include Lloyds TSB.... [more]

Italian satellite channel Telepiu is being sold by Vivendi Universal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $1.4bn.... [more]

Vantis, the accountancy and professional advisory group, has acquired the non-audit business of Darlington-based Gregory Mitford & Snowball for an initial £0.2m.... [more]

Fiske has acquired Ionian Group, the investment management company, for £1.6m.... [more]

Hartest has acquired Qados, the distributor of radiotherapy healthcare and research equipment, for £1.7m.... [more]

Expomedia has acquired a 51% stake in International Exhibitions & Conferences of Morocco for up to £0.5m.... [more]

Serco has acquired SDC, the healthcare management consultancy, for £2m, in order to increase the range of strategic advice and consultancy services provided to the NHS.... [more]