Lister Petter, the old established diesel engine manufacturer, has been put into administration whilst it seeks new investors. The business, which empoys 250 and has a turnover of over £35 million is ... [more]

Ennstone, the quarry products group, is expected to announce soon that it has appointed Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to conduct a strategic review which could lead to an auction of the group, possib... [more]

Rank has acquired Disctronics, the CD replicator with factories in Blackburn, Crawley, France and Italy, for £34m, in order to expand its Deluxe film services business.... [more]

Loch Fyne Restaurants is planning to rescue the chain of Le Petit Blanc restaurants out of administration in a £1.1m deal.... [more]

Loseley Dairy Ice Cream has undergone a management buy-out from Thayers New England, and its factory will relocate from Cardiff to Cwmbran in September.... [more]

Invensys has put its US-based metering business up for sale with a price tag of $850m. The engineering group has appointed Bank of America to work on the sale alongside Morgan Stanley, which is advisi... [more]

Virtue Broadcasting has sold its Virtue Media Services division to Interoute Communications for £0.8m, as part of a strategy to focus on the corporate communications market... [more]

Tribal Group is to acquire Hacas, the social housing consultancy, for £45m... [more]

Ennstone has acquired T&T, the Doncaster-based limestone quarry operator, for £2m... [more]

Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian energy, metals and fertilizer group, has said it will divest itself of its fertilizer business in the first half of next year. Norsk has said it would set up a separate stoc... [more]

The UK Competition commission has stated that WM Morrison would be the only bidder among the four supermarket operators vying for Safeway that would be able to promote competition nationwide. The Comm... [more]

Bena Pri, the Bulgarian soft drinks producer, is to be put up for sale by state receivers in September this year according to local press reports. The company was previously a bottler and producer for... [more]

Eliza Tinsley Group, the engineering company that closed its Chesterfield plant this year, has put the property up for sale to raise around £1.55m. The group is aiming to recoup some of the £3.8m lost... [more]

Recent rumours of a possible sale of Swiss Life (UK) to global reinsurer, Swiss Re, have been denied by the managing director. Swiss Life UK was put up for sale last year after its parent company, Swi... [more]

London Clearing House is to merge with Clearnet, creating a combined securities clearing house valued at £830m and called LCH Clearnet... [more]

Huntsworth is to acquire Hatch Group, the public relations company with offices throughout the UK, for £1.6m... [more]

Portman Building Society is to acquire the Staffordshire Building Society for undisclosed terms, gaining 42 branches and a wider product range... [more]

Bridgedale has bought John Partridge, the Staffordshire-based coat manufacturer, out of administration for undisclosed terms... [more]

SSL International has selected a shortlist of potential purchasers for its wound care business, part of its struggling medical division that may fetch £70m-£80m. SSL , the maker of Scholl footcare pr... [more]

Trinity Mirror, the newspaper publisher, is considering the sale of its regional newspapers in Northern Ireland in the first phase of its restructuring. Industry analysts belive the titles could be ... [more]