Centrica, Britain's largest supplier of gas and electricity, is reportedly considering the sale of its liquified petroleum gas business.... [more]

Cranswick has acquired North Wales Foods, the sandwich supplier with net assets of £1m.... [more]

SZ Gears, the Risca-based gear-cutting equipment company with 16 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Finance Wales.... [more]

Crantock Bakery, the Newquay-based bakery with 77 staff, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers.... [more]

Palgrave Brown, the Chorley-based timber supplier with 800 staff and 17 sites nationwide, has undergone a £30m management buy-out backed by Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity.... [more]

Tesco is to acquire T&S Stores, the owner of more than 1,000 convenience stores and newsagents, for £520m, and will re-brand 450 outlets with the Express format.... [more]

Regent Inns has sold 17 unbranded pubs to Porter Black Holdings for £4.3m.... [more]

Old Monk's administrators have agreed to sell seven pubs to the Barracuda Group for £7.8m, and are now looking to sell the remaining 17 sites.... [more]

Field & Lawn Marquees has acquired Black & Edgington, the supplier of marquees and temporary structures, from the Arena events organising group for £0.5m.... [more]

Jeffreys Haulage, the Derbyshire-based transport company with 80 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.... [more]

Amvescap is to acquire Whitehall Asset Management, the private wealth manager, from the Industrial Bank of Japan for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Fieldens is to acquire CamAxys, the Cambridgeshire-based supplier of health and safety management systems, for £1.5m.... [more]

A number of British Biotech's shareholders have threatened a break-up of the company following the decision to abandon merger negotiations with its German equivalent, MorphoSys. British Biotech has no... [more]

The deadline is looming for bids for Vivendi Universal' s US publishing business. Bidders must make an offer of $1.7bn or the process will be opened up to other potential buyers. Vivendi's non US publ... [more]

HVB Group has decided to restructure its DAB online broking subsidiary and is in talks with potential buyers for Self Trade, the Paris broking operation it acquired two years ago for $878.5m. Germany'... [more]

Emap, the media group, is in talks with Bertelsmann to buy its German trade magazines. The £170m magazines division is part of Bertelsmann Springer, the German multinational's scientific and business ... [more]

Cable & Wireless faces a tough decision on the future of C&W Global, the telecommunications group's loss-making data services business. It is believed that the company may also have to scale back its ... [more]

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, the world's largest maker of printing machinery, has announced that it will shed nearly one tenth of its workforce as part of a programme aimed at saving $196m a year. The... [more]

Whitbread is considering selling off or closing underperforming Beefeater restaurants as it looks to revive the chain. The group recently announced an 11% profit rise. ... [more]

CB Print Finishers of Newcastle has been bought out of administration by a management buy-out, and will now be called Hay Binders.... [more]