Morgan Est has acquired AWG Rail Services, the Sheffield-based trackwork company, saving about half of the 60 jobs... [more]

Yates Group, the bar operator, has received a £80m takeover approach from a management buy-out backed by US private equity firm GI Partners... [more]

Find A Property, the Brighton-based online property magazine with 18 staff, has undergone a £2.8m management buy-out backed by Barclays Ventures... [more]

City rumours that MFI, the furnishings retailer, could be taken over and broken up. Managers were thought to be preparing a buyout that could herald the demerger of its Howden Joinery arm or the sale ... [more]

Recruitment company Hays has decided to demerge its DX Mail business which specialises in business-to-business mail services. Hays is understood to have already received and ruled out several approach... [more]

Princes Foods has acquired Well Well Well, the natural mineral water bottler with sites in Cumbria and Shropshire, in a multi-million pound deal... [more]

Ceramic Prints, the Brighouse-based manufacturer of tiles, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance... [more]

Centrica is to acquire the Killingholme gas power station near Grimsby for £142m, in order to secure its winter electricity supplies... [more]

Strakan Pharmaceuticals is to merge with Proskelia of France, in order to create a combined skin, bone and hormone disorder company with a valuation of £200m... [more]

MacraeFood Group, the largest processor of delicatessen seafood products in the UK, is to be sold by its equity parent company by the end of 2005, according to its Chairman, Bill Hazeldean. "Belgium-b... [more]

AMF Bowling, one of Britain’s biggest ten-pin bowling centre operators with 33 sites, has been put up for sale by its US parent company with an estimated price tag of £40 million to £50 million. AMF i... [more]

Shareholders in the UK’s Unwins Wine Group have approved a resolution for changes to be made to the company’s Articles of Association, which will help simplify a strategic review by the board that may... [more]

Gowrings has sold its motor vehicle accident repair centres in Wokingham, Swindon and Oxford to Nationwide Accident Repair Services for £0.5m... [more]

First Aid UK, the Cheshire-based supplier of first aid kits, is to be acquired by Healthcare Enterprise Group for £2m... [more]

Corpora is to acquire Infonic, the internet research software and services company, for £1.2m, and will also acquire software development company Algorithmix... [more]

Blackpool Council is to sell Blackpool Airport to City Hopper for £13m, and City Hopper hopes to quadruple passenger numbers by 2008... [more]

Barclays bank has launched a review of its entire estate of global properties, of which approximately 2000 are in the UK under the Barclays and Woolwich brands. Consultancy Jones Lang Lasalle has been... [more]

Queens Moat Houses, the struggling hotel operator, has selected preferred bidders for its 3 divisions as part of its plans to break itself up. Pedersen Group is in talks to buy the UK businesses for ... [more]

Park Group is to sell Link Brand, its Chesterfield-based design and packing business with 48 staff, to a management buy-in team... [more]

Parker Hannifin has acquired Mead Fluid Dynamics' UK operations, securing the future of 180 jobs in Cannock... [more]