Pfizer, the US drugs group, is considering the sale of its surgical opthalmology business, which generates $150m in annual turnover. The division has manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands and Sw... [more]

The tour operator MyTravel has put its American assets up for sale in a move that could raise more than $300m. The debt-laden company has hired Banc of America Securities to handle the sale. Interes... [more]

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, the infrastructure businesses with businesses stretching around Canada, Australasia and the Far-East is interested in bidding for South East Water the £400m busin... [more]

Centrica, Britain's biggest household energy supplier, is preparing to sell Goldfish, its loss-making financial services arm. Goldfish as expanded beyond credit cards with the Goldfish Bank, which of... [more]

Abbey National is understood to be in talks with various parties to sell its French mortgage business, which has assets of £4bn. The Abbey National is also in talks to sell its Italian Mortgage opera... [more]

Ashtead has raised £6m from the disposal of certain non-core businesses, including the sale of the rental assets of its Big Air division to Speedy Power and its mast climbing work platforms to Mastcli... [more]

Kleeneze has sold its DMG display marketing business to Premier Direct for £4.1m... [more]

Smiths Group is to sell its polymers division to Trelleborg of Sweden for £495m, in order to reduce debt and focus on detection, aerospace and medical equipment... [more]

Smiths Group, the aerospace and defence group, is currently in talks with two buyers who are competing to buy its polymers division. The group feels that the division does not fit in with its core bus... [more]

Hays has sold its business process outsourcing division to Astron for £21m, as part of a strategy to focus on recruitment... [more]

Swiss Life has said that it admits that it cannot find a buyer for its UK life arm and said that it was closing the operation to new individual business. The UK life operation was put up for sale in ... [more]

William Jacks is to sell its BMW and Mini car dealerships in Cobham and Wimbledon to Inchcape Estates for £6.2m.... [more]

Wilson Pitts, the Leeds-based insolvency firm, has sold The Great Northern Wine Company of Ripon to a former manager.... [more]

Bouygues, the French industrial group, has appointed NM Rothschild to examine a possible sale of South East Water, the £400m water company based in Surrey. ... [more]

Hays has found a buyer for its document-storage business which it had put up for sale. The group is now focusing on the sale of its logistics business which could earn around £200m. This will allow th... [more]

Chemring is to sell its Alloy Surfaces chemicals business in the US to Akron Paint & Varnish for up to £2.5m.... [more]

ICI has sold its waste management business to the Impetus arm of Thornaby-based Scott Bros Group, and more than £1m will be invested in new equipment at the Teesport site.... [more]

Hays is to sell its information management services business to Iron Mountain Europe for £200m.... [more]

Kingfisher has sold Dubois Materiaux, its French builders merchant subsidiary, to Saint-Gobain for £69m.... [more]

Manganese Bronze is to sell its components division to BSA Holdings for £8m, including Deans Powered Doors of Beverley, Advanced Sintering of Ipswich, Metal Powders of Birmingham and Precision Casting... [more]