Vantis has acquired Redhead French, the Essex-based insolvency and business recovery firm, for an initial £3.5m.... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its insurance operations in Peru to Rimac Internacional for about £12m.... [more]

Vega Insurance Services has acquired Abacans, the Preston-based insurance broker with 24 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Oxoid, the Basingstoke-based supplier of diagnostic products, has been sold by PPM Ventures to Fisher Scientific International for £177m.... [more]

Intercontinental Hotels Group is preparing to sell up to 20 UK hotels as part of the the next stage of the asset sell-off, following last year's demerger from Six Continents. The company is believed ... [more]

American Electric Power Co. Inc.'s British power plants and Louisiana gas assets that are up for sale are gathering interest from financial services firms and other buyers, the chief financial officer... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust is to acquire Brand Events, the operator of vitality and outdoor exhibitions, for £5.3m.... [more]

Dowding & Mills is to sell its electrical operations in the Netherlands and Luxembourg to a management team operating under the name of AGW Benelux Holdings.... [more]

Golley Slater has acquired Northern Profile, the public relations company with 45 staff at offices in Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and London, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Domino Printing Sciences is to acquire Wiedenbach Group, the German supplier of cable printing equipment, for £7m.... [more]

Aviva is to sell the Bournemouth-based commercial insurance business of Hill House Hammond to Folgate Partnership for an estimated £15m, which will involve the transfer of 250 staff.... [more]

Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire a 75% stake in Area Investigacion, the Spanish market research company with 100 staff, and has an option to acquire the remaining 25%.... [more]

Alliance Pharma has acquired four Dermapharm dermatology brands for a total £0.9m, while the infrastructure and staff of Dermapharm which will be divested into a new company called Dermapharm Skincare... [more]

Media Square has acquired Hudson Advertising & Marketing, the Leeds-based retail and home shopping advertising company with 15 staff.... [more]

Green Corns, the Rochdale-based operator of 30 care homes with 170 staff, has undergone a £26m management buy-out backed by 3i, and aims to expand the network nationwide over the next few years.... [more]

Isoft has confirmed plans to sell its Torex Retail software business to Lynxangel for up to £67m.... [more]

Viacom, the US media giant, is looking to sell its 81% stake in Blockbuster, after reporting losses for the final three months of last year. The video rental company is facing increasing competition f... [more]

UCI, the cinema chain, has appointed Merrill Lynch to manage the sale of its business, estimated to be worth around £500m. It is believed that Robert Tchenguiz, the millionaire property investor, is p... [more]

ML Laboratories has sold Healthcare Education Services, the St Albans-based provider of pharmaceutical industry training services with annual turnover of £1.2m, to Bridgehead Pharmalicensing Group.... [more]

Community Broking Group has acquired Cloughley Insurance Services, as part of a strategy to become a leading insurance broker in the Manchester area.... [more]