Ailing retailer WH Smith has mapped out its strategy for reinvigorating the business after seeing a potential bidder walk away from a takeover. The group, which recently discovered private equity firm... [more]

Insurer Prudential is expected to report robust first-half results, but a failure to find a buyer for online bank Egg will distract investors from the numbers, say analysts. The country's second-large... [more]

Glisten has acquired a toffee production line in North Shields from House of York for £0.1m... [more]

British Vita has acquired the remaining 50% of its Canadian foam products business for £15m... [more]

Jarvis is poised to stave off collapse by engineering a standstill agreement with its banks and outlining a sell-off plan to raise cash. Profit warnings, hefty write-downs and management reshuffles ha... [more]

Conrad Black has been attempting to sabotage the sale of the Daily Telegraph and has labelled as "fascists" those trying to investigate his business dealings, according to court documents filed in the... [more]

The Carlyle Group, an American private equity group with close links to the Bush administration has emerged as a leading contender to acquire the shipbuilding business of BAE Systems, Britain's larges... [more]

Whitbread has acquired the Premier Lodge chain of 141 budget hotels and 19 pub restaurants from Spirit for £536m... [more]

United Biscuits is to acquire the UK biscuit operations of Danone for about £240m, including factories in Liverpool and Leicester... [more]

Center Parcs is to sell its 3D children's activity holiday business to PGL for £12m... [more]

London's biggest hotel chain, Thistle, plans to sell six hotels here, the group's Singapore-based parent BIL said. BIL said investment bank UBS would assist with the sale of its Bloomsbury Park, Barbi... [more]

NTL, the telecoms and cable TV group, will possibly put its broadcast business up for sale within the next few months with an asking price of about £1bn. NTL, which tried to sell the broadcast busines... [more]

Resolution Life Group has completed the financing for a planned £875m acquisition of Royal & Sun Alliance's struggling life-assurance arm. The investment vehicle, set up by Clive Cowdery, former GE In... [more]

The chief executive of BBC Worldwide, Rupert Gavin, has announced he is leaving the corporation to prepare a buy-out of it's commercial television, publishing and merchandise arm, should the business ... [more]

Rok Property Solutions has acquired John Dickie Construction, which operates in the central belt of Scotland, from John Dickie Group for £0.8m... [more]

KPMG has sold Lotus and FII, the Northampton-based shoe manufacturer, out of administration to Jacobson Group of Lancashire, securing the future of 40 jobs... [more]

InterContinental Hotels Group has put hotels with a book value of £512m up for sale in the latest tranche of an asset disposal programme that is expected to return more than £600m to shareholders. The... [more]

Merchant Retail Group has announced that it is selling all of its UK Joplings department stores with the loss of more than 600 jobs, to concentrate on its 100 cut-price perfume stores as well as its g... [more]

Reg Vardy has completed the £5m acquisition of the Renault car dealership in Leeds from Renault Retail Group... [more]

Astron has acquired the Nottingham-based print and mail division of Experian, and the 109 staff are expected to be offered relocation to other Astron sites... [more]