Alba is to acquire the Home Intermedia Systems division of Grundig of Germany out of receivership, in a £56m deal with its joint venture partner Beko Electronik.... [more]

Rexam is to acquire Glas Moerdijk, the Dutch glass packaging plant, from Heineken for £30m.... [more]

BC Partners is to acquire Baxi, the boiler manufacturer, from Kidde and a number of private equity houses for about £600m.... [more]

Isoft, which specialises in software for the healthcare sector, is in advanced talks to sell its Torex Retail business for approximately £65m. Torex Retail provides software systems to retailers and ... [more]

BOC has sold its packaged gases business in the US to Airgas for up to £110m, including medical, industrial and speciality gases.... [more]

Royal Doulton has put its historic Beswick brand up for sale as it emerged the company is to produce a replacement range of wares in the Far East. The firm has placed Beswick, long associated with ani... [more]

3i, the UK's biggest venture capital company, has put the Early Learning Centre and Allsports up for sale in order to scale back its investments in the retail sector. Early Learning Centre is expected... [more]

Golf's governing body has hived off its commercial activities into a new company structure in the biggest shake-up in 250 years.But the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews played down any suggest... [more]

Skandia's new chief executive has ruled out the sale of any more of the Swedish financial services group's international units, and said he would like to secure a strong strategic investor. Mr Anderss... [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]

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]

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]

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

Like-for-like sales at Woolworths’ 808 high street stores rose 1.1 per cent in the eight weeks to 10 January. Sales at out-of-town "big W" stores, which have been tipped for sale or closure by some an... [more]

Ashtead has sold its Irish chain of 15 plant hire outlets to McCormick Macnaughton for £12m... [more]

McNicholas is in negotiations to acquire Lawrence, the Bath-based civils and utilities contractor with 600 staff, from Bristol Water for an estimated £7m... [more]

Britain's second largest insurer, the Prudential, is in talks over the possible sale of its majority shareholding in loss-making online bank Egg."Such discussions are at a preliminary stage and there ... [more]