VT Group is to sell some of the operations of its VT Engine Controls subsidiary to Sareline for up to £2.5m... [more]

Gourmet Holdings is to acquire three Bel and the Dragon country pubs and restaurants in Cookham, Windsor and Godalming for £6.3m... [more]

OyezStraker, the office supplies company, has been sold by Bridgepoint Capital to Hermes Private Equity for £80m... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Scandinavian life and pensions business to SEB Trygg of Sweden for £173m... [more]

Medical Solutions is to sell Kinetic Imaging to Andor Technology for £0.6m, in order to focus on its core pathology services business... [more]

Nord Anglia Education has sold ten schools to Gems Education for £12m, in order to focus on the nursery sector... [more]

Begbies Traynor has agreed to sell JCM Print Services of Liverpool out of administration to G&H Web Offset, which has operations in Manchester, Leeds, London and Edinburgh, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Willis is to acquire a majority stake in Coyle Hamilton, the Irish insurance broker with 500 staff, for undisclosed terms... [more]

Rank Group's house broker, Deutsche Bank, highlighted the chances of the company breaking up over the next 18 months. Its Deluxe Media unit, which pulls in 40% of sales, does not share the same bright... [more]

GKN is to sell its German tube connecting systems business to Eaton Corporation of the US for £26m... [more]

Hollinger International has agreed to sell the Telegraph newspapers group to Press Holdings for £665m... [more]

Centrica has joined a growing list of European multi-utilities such as Germany's RWE abandoning the strategy of diversifying into an unconnected range of services and refocusing on core activities suc... [more]

InTechnology has acquired NetConnect Training, the provider of network security training services, from NetStore for up to £1m... [more]

Abbey National is to sell its asset finance and leasing businesses to ING Lease UK, which will involve the transfer of about 243 staff.... [more]

Robert Tchenguiz, the property magnate, has bought a property portfolio of nine motorway service stations from Welcome Break for £270m. Mr Tchenguiz's Rotch Property Group has acquired the freehold s... [more]

The arrival of foreign competition in healthcare has prompted Britain's biggest private provider to launch a radical transformation of its business. Bupa Hospitals is to sell 10 of the smaller hospita... [more]

AEA Technology, the former commercial arm of the Atomic Energy Authority is continuing to refocus on its core divisions of rail, environment and development. Peter Watson, chairman, said the group wou... [more]

James Halstead has sold Belstaff International, the operator of several licensing arrangements for wax cotton jackets and leisure clothing, to an Italian licensee for £10m... [more]

Morgan Crucible is to sell the auto and consumer business of its electrical carbon division to Energy Conversion Systems of the US for £33m... [more]

Ross Group is to sell its Tadmod battery charger and electrical adaptor business to Queenspark, and the net asset value of the transaction is about £0.2m... [more]