Mayflower's administrators have sold Plaxton, the coachbuilding company, to a management buy-out backed by Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity for £15m... [more]

Chiron has sold its needle-free injection technology to PowderMed, a new company set up by former managers of Powderject... [more]

Halma has acquired Diba Industries, the US supplier of fluid transfer equipment, for £7.9m... [more]

It is reported that Royal & Sun Alliance has said it is in a position to sell its British life business, having reached an agreement with regulators over potential liabilities - including a possible £... [more]

The private-equity group Blackstone has emerged as one of the frontrunners to buy the Four Seasons nursing-home estate. It is believed to have put an enterprise value on the estate in excess of £700m... [more]

It is expected that VT Group, the shipbuilding and support-services group, will this week rule itself out of the bidding for BAE's nuclear-submarine yard at Barrow-in-Furness. But VT is likely to say... [more]

Investment bankers at NM Rothschild are seeking buyers for HPI, the privately owned car-information group that is evolving into an advertising business. It is reported that Pheonix Equity Partners, t... [more]

It is speculated that Abbey National's contract with EDS, the IT services company with which Abbey has a joint-venture call centre operation, is thought to be a big obstacle to the widely rumoured tak... [more]

It is reported that Trinity Mirror is expected to come under renewed pressure to sell it's national newspapers after the departure of Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan. Investors have previously calle... [more]

Scipher has sold its QED Intellectual Property subsidiary to Innovation Development for £0.1m... [more]

Three Lions Leisure, the operator of an indoor five-a-side football centre in Huddersfield, has been acquired by Taskcatch for £0.1m... [more]

It is reported that two of London's trendier watering holes are up for sale after the multimillion-pound collapse of privately owned pubs and bars group Valleyhill. Valleyhill has been put into admin... [more]

Carillion is to sell its Crown House mechanical and electrical engineering business to Laing O'Rourke for £17m in order to focus on its Business Services and Private Finance activities... [more]

Somerfield has acquired eleven forecourt convenience stores in Scotland from the receiver of Osprey Forecourts for £2.6m... [more]

Magic4, the Warrington-based developer of mobile phone software with 130 staff, has been acquired by Openware Systems of the US for £47m... [more]

Andaray Engineering has sold its Gateshead-based precision machining business to management for £0.9m securing the future of 90 jobs.... [more]

AstraZeneca and Royal Cosun are to sell their Advanta seeds business to Syngenta of Switzerland for £280m... [more]

Photo-Scan, installer of closed-circuit television security systems for the Bank of England, Harrods and the Thames Barrier, is inviting offers from potential buyers after receiving an unsolicited tak... [more]

Hunting is to sell some of its oil pipe manufacturing operations to Sooner Pipe of the US for £25m... [more]

Unwins, the UK-based off-licence group, said that its board is considering a sale of the business. In a statement the group said: “In recent months, shareholders in The Unwins Wine Group Ltd (Unwins) ... [more]