Morgan Stanley and Simon Glick have said that they would sell or refinance buildings at Canary Wharf if their £1.55bn bid to buy the development succeeded.... [more]

Kidde has acquired the fire-fighting chemicals division of Croda International, which employs 65 people at sites in Kirkby and France, for £4.4m... [more]

Peterhouse has sold Anglair, its compressed air and pneumatics engineering operation, to Airchannel for £1.5m... [more]

White Young Green has acquired Cetec Consultancy, the Southampton-based provider of structural engineering and project management services, for £0.7m... [more]

Matrix Healthcare is to acquire nursing home operators Newsham of Gloucester and Woodland of Torquay for a total of £2.5m... [more]

XKO has acquired a computer disaster recovery business from Datacentre of the Isle of Man for £1.7m... [more]

Montgomery Litho has bought the sealing wax division of Edinburgh-based Waterstons MacKenzie Storrie out of receivership... [more]

Jarrold Printing, the Norwich-based commercial printer with 326 staff, is to undergo a management buy-out from Jarrold, creating a new company called NJP... [more]

Milk Link has acquired Peninsula Milk, the Okehampton-based liquid milk processor with 75 staff, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Charles Stanley is to acquire Fyshe Horton Finney, the Birmingham-based private client broker, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Wireless Group is to acquire Forever Broadcasting, the operator of local radio stations in Wolverhampton, Chesterfield and Bolton, for £8.1m... [more]

Invensys, the troubled engineering group, is in talks to launch a surprise rights issue to help plug a £700m pension hole and pay back a £500m loan. A source close to the deal said the company will is... [more]

SPIRIT, the UK’s largest managed pub company, is putting 300 pubs up for sale in a deal that could net £600 million and pave the way for a stock market flotation. The company, headed by Karen Jones, h... [more]

Glyn Small, owner of controversial dive site Dorothea Quarry in North Wales is putting the site up for sale at £1.5 million. Dorothea is a completely unregulated site, with no facilities, and in place... [more]

In the next few weeks, CVC Capital Partners, the European private equity group, will decide on a possible sale or flotation of UK car parts and accessories retailer Halfords, which it bought from chem... [more]

Standard Life, the troubled insurer, is to consider selling its banking business and its Canadian operations or even selling itself as part of the strategic review it launched last week.The insurer o... [more]

Courts eased off the recent highs it secured over the festive period as the furniture retailer said it was considering a sale of the business after a weak US dollar sent profits slumping. The group sa... [more]

Harvey Nash is to acquire SBS Group's US-based IT recruitment and services business out of receivership for £1.4m... [more]

Wild Manufacturing, the Birmingham-based manufacturer of precision components for the motor industry with annual sales of £10m, has undergone a management buy-in... [more]

Hemsec, the Rainhill-based insulation supplier, has sold its Installations division to a management buy-out... [more]