Brambles Industries has sold the Serviceteam repair and maintenance business of its Cleanaway waste management division to AWG Facilities Services for an initial £7.6m.... [more]

Tenon has sold its Tenon Livingstone Guarantee corporate finance business to eight partners in the Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham offices for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Cable and Wireless have reached agreement over their outstanding tax payments which now allows them to look at the restructuring of the group. Analysts have said that the next step is to appoint a ne... [more]

ML Laboratories is to sell its Icodextrin glucose polymer manufacturing business in Liverpool to Baxter Healthcare for £6.5m.... [more]

RMC, the worlds largest ready mix concrete maker, has declined to indicate if it was selling its 62.5% stake in Readymix, a Dublin listed affiliate.... [more]

Royal and Sun Alliance the struggling life assurer is having difficulty selling Britains second largest group of estate agents. The 360 strong chain includes names such as Fox and Sons and Barnard Ma... [more]

Morgan Crucible is to sell six of its US-based Engineered Soft Coatings facilities to a subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright for £13m.... [more]

Seymour Pierce, the small investment banking and fund management group, has announced that it is planning to sell its fund management arm after a bid for the whole group failed. ... [more]

Mytravel, Britains second largest holiday company is struggling to find a buyer for Cresta, the short-breaks brand that it put up for sale before Christmas. Recent suitors have withdrawn over price. ... [more]

Holland & Barrett has acquired Health & Diet Group from Royal Numico of the Netherlands for £7.5m, gaining 49 GNC health food stores in the UK.... [more]

MyTravel has sold London Travel Service and Bridge Britain and Irelandto Cheshire-based Holidaybreak for about £2m, and is now looking tosell its Altrincham-based subsidiary Cresta Holidays.... [more]

Candover has acquired the Wellstream pipe manufacturing business of USoil services group Halliburton, as part of a £79m management buy-in..... [more]

MyTravel has sold London Travel Service and Bridge Britain and Ireland to Cheshire-based Holidaybreak for about £2m, and is now looking to sell its Altrincham-based subsidiary Cresta Holidays.... [more]

European Motor Holdings has acquired a Volkswagen car dealership in Walton on Thames for £0.5m.... [more]

Alstom, the power and transport group will announce plans to sell its transmission and distribution division which is estimated to be worth £1.17bn. The disposal is aimed at reducing debt.... [more]

Smiths Group, the aero space to health care group is trying to raise up to £500m from the sale of its Polymer-seals business. It is understood to be in the second stage of an auction and has attracte... [more]

Orb Estates, the Jersey-based investment company, is close to sellings its portfolio of Regional Thistle Hotels for £700m, a year after acquiring them for £600m. ... [more]

Thistle Hotels is to auction some of the groups flagship London hotels in a bid to defeat a bid from its biggest investor BIL. Thistle is in talks with advisors to put the Thistle Tower up for sale wo... [more]

LVMH, the luxury goods group, has reported an increase in profits by 29%, from £975m to £1.25bn. The owner Bernard Arnault has said that he would like to sell off non core businesses in the next 18 m... [more]

Cinven has sold the Odean chain of 97 cinemas to WestLB and the Entertainment Group for £431m.... [more]