Tarsus Group is to sell its Exhibition Bulletin magazine to Mash Media Group for £1.1m... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Royal Specialty Underwriting business in the US to Alleghany Insurance for £72m, while its Puerto Rican subsidiary has been sold to Cooperativa de Seguros Multiples f... [more]

Carillion has acquired Swedish Rail Systems Entreprenad, the Swedish rail maintenance company with 250 staff and net assets of £6.2m... [more]

Waste Recycling Group, the operator of 59 landfill sites, is to be acquired by investment group Terra Firma Capital Partners in a £530m deal... [more]

Stagecoach has sold its Citybus business in Hong Kong to New World First Bus Services for £176m... [more]

Prospective bidders for Canary Wharf have pitched their bids valuing the company at about £1.54bn. Land Securities, British Land and Morgan Stanley Property Fund are all thought to be interested. Th... [more]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been put up for sale by its owner Klaus Schwab. Founded in 1971 The WEF attracts business leaders from around the world to its annual summit in Switzerland. The W... [more]

HBOS has acquired IMIWeb, the UK broking arm of Banca IMI of Italy, in order to expand its Halifax Share Dealing subsidiary... [more]

Alfred McAlpine has acquired AIMS Group Services, the technical services company that focuses on workplace compliance issues, for £7.2m... [more]

Benfield Motor Group has acquired the former Arriva Toyota car dealership in Wakefield, and will retain all 37 staff... [more]

Stagecoach has agreed to sell the west and south-central regions of Coach USA to merchant bank Kohlberg & Co for £93m... [more]

Just Learning has acquired CareShare, the Scottish chain of 20 nurseries, for £17m, creating a combined group with 56 sites and 1,200 staff... [more]

Kidde is to acquire Briton Fire Company, the Norfolk-based supplier of fire extinguishers, for £4.7m... [more]

Supreme Imports, the supplier of batteries and photographic products, has undergone a £16m management buy-out backed by private equity group Sand Aire... [more]

Persimmon has acquired Merewood Group, the regional housebuilder operating in Cumbria and Lancashire, for £23m.... [more]

Northgate Information Solutions is to acquire Carapeople, the supplier of payroll processing systems with 120 staff at offices in Brentford, Bristol, Dublin and Basingstoke, from Hibernia Development ... [more]

Tribal Group has acquired Davies Byatt, the research consultancy, for £2.3m, and MPC, the corporate communications company, for £3m.... [more]

Sea Containers is in exclusive negotiations to sell the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ferry service to private equity firm Montagu for up to £150m.... [more]

Pennon has acquired Churngold Holdings, the operator of waste recycling sites in Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh, for £20m, in order to expand its Viridor Waste division.... [more]

Amulet, the company behind accident group has been put up for sale by PwC.... [more]