J Sainsbury is still trying to sell its specialist property development arm. The group put the division on the block in January this year to focus on its core supermarket activities. The arm has a £1... [more]

Proctor & Gamble is understood to be sounding out possible buyers for its snacks business, which makes Pringles crisps. Also up for grabs would be Folgers coffee, which like Pringles, is very big bran... [more]

Vivendi Universal is seeking to offload its majority (55%) stake in Monaco Telecom in an attempt to reduce debt after an ill-fated expansion into the media sector. The sale, which should bring in ove... [more]

Brewing giant Scottish & Newcastle is poised to begin the process of further whittling down bids for its £2.3bn pubs business. The deadline for the second stage of the auction process passed on Friday... [more]

International Academy, the Cardiff-based provider of soccer training camps and skiing holidays, has been sold by Leisure Ventures to Thomson for up to £2m.... [more]

E2V Technologies has acquired the microwave sensors business of Dynex Semiconductor, which will involve a number of staff relocating from one Lincoln factory to another.... [more]

Shares in business parks developer Slough Estates lost ground in the last week of August as it reported a fall in half-year pre-tax profits, 5.8% to £71.8m. New chief executive Ian Coull said he would... [more]

Struggling Pizza Express has put the For Sale sign up at fourteen of its outlets, according to Property Week magazine. The company, acquired last month by private equity owners for £278m, has instruct... [more]

Heywood Williams has sold Coldseal, its Nottingham-based double glazing subsidiary with 500 staff, to newly-formed Coldseal Group in exchange for a 19.9% stake in Coldseal Group.... [more]

NTL are understood to be restructuring their financing arrangements and as part of this are considering offloading their communications towers business which could fetch as much as £1bn.... [more]

According to reports, US industrial group United Technologies which acquired UK security firm Chubb in June, is contemplating the sale of parts of the Chubb business, possibly including the manned gua... [more]

Rexam is to sell its medical flexible packaging division to Amcor of Australia for £135m, which will involve the transfer of more than 1,000 staff worldwide.... [more]

The BBC should be made to sell its most popular programmes to its commercial rivals and concentrate more on its public service obligations, the chief executive of BSkyB said yesterday. Tony Ball outli... [more]

Po Na Na's administrators are to sell 28 of its 45 bars to Avanti Capital for about £7m.... [more]

Vocalis, the speech recognition software company with 60 staff, has gone into administration and the main trading division has been sold to Netdecisions for a nominal sum.... [more]

Lookers has acquired the Savoy Honda car dealership in Warrington from Mainland Investments for £2m.... [more]

Cobham has signalled it is putting its Westwind semiconductor machinery unit up for sale as it announced plans to streamline its operations. Westwind is expected to lose about £500,000 on sales of ab... [more]

Tellings Golden Miller is to acquire the Dartford operations of Crystals Coaches, as part of a strategy to expand its bus and coach network in the south-east.... [more]

David Fabb Holdings' administrators have sold the Brockway Conveyors division in Stourbridge to an undisclosed buyer, securing 20 jobs.... [more]

Swiss Life is to sell its UK-based group income protection and critical illness division to UnumProvident of the US, with the loss of a significant number of the 250 jobs at its Liverpool office.... [more]