European Motor Holdings has sold its Normand Heathrow Vauxhall dealership to Lance Owen (Kingston) for £0.7m.... [more]

Wolseley has acquired Tobler Management Holding, the Swiss supplier of heating and ventilation products with 600 staff and 21 branches, for £52m.... [more]

The company behind The Number, the directory enquiries business famed for its 1970s-style joggers sporting 118 118 running vests, is planning a £700m flotation. One operator, Thus, has pulled out of ... [more]

Highams Systems Services has sold its HBS financial software business to Surecomp of Canada for £0.9m.... [more]

Electric Word has acquired Primary File Publishing, the educational publisher, for £1.1m.... [more]

Highams Systems Services has sold its HBS financial software business to Surecomp of Canada for £0.9m.... [more]

Touchstone Group has bought the Sage CRM business of Hertfordshire-based Brown & Co out of liquidation for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Electric Word has acquired Primary File Publishing, the educational publisher, for £1.1m.... [more]

Hays will initially raise £102m by selling part of its logistics business to the US venture capital group Platinum Equity. It expects to raise a further £100m through the separate sale of the division... [more]

Virtue Broadcasting is to acquire Kamera Holdings, the Swedish provider of webcasting and content distribution services, for about £2.5m.... [more]

Mercury Recycling is to acquire Simister Engineering Services,the recycler of fluorescent tubes and street lighting, for £0.9m.... [more]

The Government is expected to put the Tote bookmaking business up for sale following record half-year results. ... [more]

The Government is this week expected to put the sale of the Tote bookmaking business under starter's orders on the back of record half-year results.It is planning to table legislation permitting the ... [more]

Saga, the UK’s best known provider of services for the over 50s, was put up for sale today with a price tag thought to be in excess of £1 billion. Saga is now a dominant force in its target market wi... [more]

The British Broadcasting Corporation has unveiled plans to sell its BBC Technology arm as part of an effort to save up to 30 million pounds a year. With 1,400 staff and annual turnover of 220 million... [more]

Hays has sold most of its logistics business to Platinum Equity of the US for £102m, and is now looking to sell its mail division and the remaining logistics operations in the US and Germany.... [more]

Madisons has sold its chain of 27 coffee bars to Out of Town Group for an initial £2.2m, in order to focus on its Richoux restaurant format.... [more]

Lloyds Beal has acquired Enviroquip, the Cardiff-based supplier of waste compactors and handling equipment, and is also planning to move its own Cardiff-based operation to a 55000 sq ft site in Bedwas... [more]

Systems Team has acquired Minerva Computer Systems, the Cheltenham-based supplier of membership administration systems with 13 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Goldenhill, the Preston-based supplier of human resources and payroll software with 15 staff, has been acquired by Cedar Software for undisclosed terms.... [more]