Galen has sold its UK-based pharmaceutical sales and marketing operation to its founder for £40m and has also announced the sale of its sterile fluids solutions business to Gambro BCT of the US for £2... [more]

Kingston Communications has sold its Inmedia satellite and broadcasting unit to The Carlyle Group for £34m and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt... [more]

Scottish & Southern Energy has acquired more than 300,000 customers from Atlantic Electric & Gas for £91m following Atlantic's move into receivership... [more]

J&J Haslett has sold Holmes Catering, the supplier of meals to schools and hospitals in Northern Ireland with 70 staff, to John Henderson Group for undisclosed terms... [more]

Invensys is to sell its Powerware power supply systems business to Eaton Corporation of the US for £313m... [more]

CTD, the reports and accounts printer, has been sold by Capita for undisclosed terms and is now looking to move from its Twickenham plant... [more]

BAE Systems says it is reviewing the possible sale of its UK naval shipbuilding operations, in a move that could speed a trans-Atlantic merger. A BAE spokesman told Reuters over the weekend that U.S. ... [more]

A break-up of BT is one of many options up for discussion, the new telecoms regulator Ofcom has said as it carries out a sweeping review of the market. Ofcom has said breaking up the former monopoly i... [more]

WH Smith has sold its ASPAC Retail operations in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong to Pacific Equity Partners... [more]

Diageo, maker of Guinness, Ireland's iconic stout drink, said it plans to close its London brewery by the summer of 2005 and consolidate production at its historic St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin. T... [more]

GW Padley is in talks to sell most of its Lincolnshire-based poultry business to OSI Group of the US... [more]

Shire Pharmaceuticals is to sell its vaccines division to ID Biomedical of Canada for £66m, and Shire will loan about £60m to ID to fund the development of new products... [more]

Oleg Deripaska, a major Russian shareholder in Corus, has called on the steel maker to consider abandoning the UK if it fails to turn around its losses. Five years after British Steel merged with the ... [more]

Benfield has sold Wildnet Group, a subsidiary that provides technology solutions to the insurance and reinsurance industry, to a consortium of private investors for a nominal sum... [more]

Parkwood is to acquire CCL Leisure, the manager of 33 leisure facilities for local councils, from Clear Channel Entertainment, for up to £0.5m... [more]

Blooms of Bressingham is to sell its new plant marketing operations for up to £0.5m, and the proceeds will be invested in its garden centres... [more]

Unilever Bestfoods, a subsidiary of Unilever, is seeking offers for its seed oils and cooking fats business operating under the Crisp’nDry, Flora, Mazola, Olivio and Cokeen brands in the UK and the Re... [more]

Johnson Service has acquired Enfield-based HSS Event Hire from HSS Group for £1.5m, in order to expand its Johnson Hospitality Services division... [more]

Alkane Energy has acquired an 83% stake in Farmatic Biotech Energy UK, the developer of biogas plants in Devon, Northern Ireland and North Wales, for about £0.2m... [more]

Dunlop Standard Aerospace, which makes engine parts and brakes for the aircraft and defence industries, has been put up for sale by its owner, Doughty Hanson, the private equity group. The business wa... [more]