Wolseley, the heating and plumbing supplier, and CRH the Dublin-based building materials group, are eyeing the lumber business of Pinault Printemps-Redoute of France. They are competing against fina... [more]

World Travel Holdings has sold Netfaresonline, its Canadian consolidated fares distribution business, to Logiciels OpenFares for £0.2m.... [more]

Kingfisher is to sell Reno-Depot, its Canadian chain of 20 home improvement stores, to RONA for £155m.... [more]

Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Berlin Verlag Beteiligungsgesellschaft and BvT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlags, in order to expand its literary publishing business in Germany.... [more]

Leicester Circuits, the manufacturer of printed circuit boards, has been bought out of administration by a management buy-out, saving 65 jobs.... [more]

SDL has acquired Lomac, the provider of Eastern European localisation and translation services, for up to £1.2m.... [more]

Valpak has sold its commercial glass collection business to Berryman, including the assets, trade and goodwill of the Recycle-more-glass scheme.... [more]

Misys has acquired Crossmar Matching Service, the developer of software for foreign exchange transactions, from Citicorp for £8.3m.... [more]

Lawrence, the industrial group, is looking to streamline its operations. The first expected event is the well flagged sale of its pets accessory business, Interpet, which could be worth 60p per share... [more]

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, is auctioning a clutch of toothpaste and other businesses worth up to $300m. The sale includes household names on both sides of the Atlantic such as Me... [more]

Linpac, the privately-held packaging group, has been put up for sale by the family that owns it for an asking price of some £1bn. Michael Cornish, chairman and son of the companies founder, Evan, is ... [more]

Walter Kielholz, the new chairman of Credit Suisse, has dismissed suggestions that Switzerland's second biggest bank is set to withdraw from investment banking by selling or spinning off Credit Suisse... [more]

PSL, the Aberdeen-based oil services company, has been bought out of receivership by management, securing the future of 200 jobs.... [more]

AC Ward has acquired the Saxton grocery wholesale business of BWG, and will relocate its own operation to the Saxton depot at West Thurrock.... [more]

Brit Insurance is to acquire PRI Group, the professional indemnity insurer, for £156m.... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire Port Financial Corporation, the US holding company for the Cambridgeport savings bank, for £180m.... [more]

Planit Holdings is to acquire Radan Computational, the Bath-based supplier of CAD software for the sheet metal industry, for £3.6m.... [more]

Photo-Me International has acquired the Central Lab Equipment division of the former Gretag Imaging company in Switzerland for £1.4m, in order to expand its photo laboratories business.... [more]

JW Braithwaite, the Wolverhampton-based bookbinder and print finisher, has been bought out of receivership by a management team, securing 70 jobs.... [more]

Cordell Group has acquired Structures (Teesside), the steel-working company with 30 staff, and 30 additional jobs will be created within two years.... [more]