Crown Sports is to sell its Winning Lines sports betting service to Last Race for £0.4m, in order to focus on health and fitness.... [more]

Equitable Life has put property up for sale worth £300m and has earmarked £1bn for sale. Property agent CB Hillier Parker has approached investors with its first property package. The London portfol... [more]

Abbey National, Britains sixth largest bank, has put its three offshore life insurance businesses up for sale with a price tag of around £100m. Abbey has appointed Hawkpoint, the boutique investment ... [more]

Ambient has sold its World Market Analysis research business to the founder of Global Insight for £1.2m.... [more]

PNC Telecom has sold KJC Mobile Phones, the mobile phone retail and distribution business, and PNC Telecom Services, the fixed line telecom business, to Harthall for £2m.... [more]

RAC has sold its Lex Harvey and Lex Birchwood forklift trucks and mobile maintenance operations, including 18 sites and about 1,000 staff, to Finning International of Canada for £99m.... [more]

Alstom is to sell its industrial turbines business to Siemens of Germany for £760m.... [more]

Scottish and Newcastle, the brewer, is expected to put its pubs up for sale, with the Laurel Pub Company already declared as a potential bidder. The price could exceed £2bn. The brewer had been nego... [more]

MF Sealing Systems has acquired Allen Gwynnes, the process pump repair business of Teesside-based Marske Machine Company.... [more]

Trader Group, the £1bn publishing business, owned by BC Partners and Guardian Media Group have received offers for their 52% holding in the company. Trader Group owns Autotrader, Bike Trader and Truc... [more]

BBA Group has acquired the Premier Turbines aircraft engine repair business in the US from Sabreliner Corporation for £22m, and has also announced the sale of its Luton engineering business to Gulfstr... [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]

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]

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]

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]

Aegis has acquired the media buying assets of Independent Media Services of the US for £5m.... [more]

Linden has acquired the Fairfield housebuilding joint venture between Wiggins and Galliford Try for £7.2m.... [more]