Electronics and ceramics engineer Cookson is to put its precious metals business up for sale, according to an industry source. Cookson hopes to get around £100m for the business, which supplies precio... [more]

InterContinental Hotels Group accompanied its first year figures with the news that it would sell hotels worth up to £1bn and intended to float Britvic. The group said that it had raised £270m from se... [more]

Hays, the services group turning itself into a pure staff recruitment business, has put its profitable mail operations up for sale in a move bound to attract big European players such as Deutsche Post... [more]

Guy Hands, the former Nomura financier who once presided over the UK’s biggest pub empire, has hoisted a “for sale” sign over Wizard Inns, the Japanese bank’s last remaining pub investment. Mr Hands, ... [more]

Eight supermarkets in Merseyside and Cheshire were put up for sale last night as part of the £3bn takeover of Safeway by rival Morrisons. The existing Morrisons stores in Southport and Chester will be... [more]

Buyout specialist Candover is poised to sell its controlling stake in the world-famous Earls Court and Olympia exhibition halls, it was reported today. The private equity group, whose interests also i... [more]

The city was expecting an imminent sale of the non core polypipe division of IMI, the engineering group. The chief executive Martin Lamb has hinted that he is holding out for a lucrative offer from a... [more]

A Multi million pound mountaineering centre has gone into receivership just months after it was opened. The Adventure Centre at Ratho, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, which will remain trading while a ... [more]

The Church in Wales is inviting offers from potential developers after putting its ministerial training college in Cardiff up for sale. The sale of St Michael's College in Llandaff village, an expensi... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance is likely to sell its UK life business, although a deal is not imminent, according to a source close to the situation. It is believed that there are three or four interested parti... [more]

Standard Life has revealed plans to axe 100 jobs in Edinburgh with more job cuts expected to be announced in other parts of its UK business. These job cuts are believed to be unconnected to the compan... [more]

Switzerland's Nestle, the world's largest food group, said it may ditch its Perrier bottled water business in France unless unions agree to planned job cuts it says are needed to raise productivity. N... [more]

Mayflower, the British bus builder, has put one of its core subsidiaries up for sale in an effort to reduce debts. Robert W Baird has been appointed to find a buyer for Mayflower Vehicle Systems, whic... [more]

Thomas Cook, the German holiday company whose British arm is the UK's third biggest tour operator, is set to be broken up by its co-owners, Lufthansa and the retailer Karstadt. The plan for sell-offs... [more]

USA Today publisher Gannett has indicated that it would buy the Financial Times if its parent company, Pearson, put it up for sale. Gannett CEO, Douglas McCorkindale, said he would look at any assets ... [more]

NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile phone company, is reviewing its relationship with telecom partner Hutchison in the UK, including a possible sale of its 20 per cent stake in 3 UK, as part of a broad re... [more]

mm02, the UK's fourth-place mobile company, rejected an offer from Dutch telco company KPN last week, thought to be worth about £10bn, with the telco saying it had no intention of launching a hostile... [more]

Londis UK is expected to commence talks with Musgrave and other suitors for the convenience store co-operative after consultants KPMG recommended to the group that it should sell up or merge with a si... [more]