Flashback Television has acquired Double Exposure, the Clerkenwell-based TV production company.... [more]

Leisure group Whitbread is considering a £1bn sale of Marriott hotels as part of a strategic review of the business launched by Alan Parker, the new chief executive. Parker is due to report the result... [more]

Rank is planning to sever its last link with its celluloid heritage with the sale or demerger of its Deluxe film-making arm. The group said it would investigate separating Deluxe from its core Mecca b... [more]

ALcontrol, the laboratories business, is to be put up for sale for more than £220 million after its owner Bridgepoint Capital, appointed BNP Paribas to sell it. The group bought ALcontrol in 2000 for ... [more]

Hollinger International, which accused former excutives led by ousted chairman Conrad Black, of taking more than £238m from the publishing group, is considering the sale or merger of assets at its new... [more]

Glenshee Chairlift Company has sold the Glenshee ski centre out of receivership to a management buy-out.... [more]

Creston is to acquire CML Research, the London-based market research company, for up to £7.8m.... [more]

Wolseley has acquired Klockner, the Austrian steel stockholder, as well as US-based fire equipment company Clark Group and home appliances distributor Cline Contract Sales.... [more]

NXT has sold its Cyrus Electronics subsidiary to a management buy-out for £0.7m.... [more]

Joseph Dawson, the cashmere textiles company, has undergone a £6.6m management buy-out from Dawson International, and will transfer its headquarters from Scotland to Yorkshire.... [more]

Maplin, the chain of more than 80 electronics stores, has undergone a £244m buy-out backed by Montagu Private Equity for £244m.... [more]

SBJ has acquired the financial services division of Miller Insurance Investments for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 36 staff to the London office of SBJ.... [more]

We forewarned in July that leisure firm Rank Group was looking at all options on the future of its Deluxe film and video processing business, including a demerger and sale.This has now ben confirmed ... [more]

Napier Brown Foods has acquired Renshaw Scott, the manufacturer of baking ingredients with 175 staff at sites in Liverpool and Carluke, for £18m.... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Bargain Pages Media, the publisher of classified advertising newspapers in the West Midlands, for £8.5m.... [more]

Graphite Capital has backed a management buy-in at JT Frith, the wholesale warehouse club with sites in the Midlands and Yorkshire, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Polestar has sold its packaging and label operations to a new company called Boxstar, which will involve the transfer of 350 staff.... [more]

Paymentshield, the Southport-based wholesale mortgage insurance company with 200 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for about £36m.... [more]

Lloyds TSB Development Capital has backed a management buy-out of the Northumberland-based pharmaceutical business of BASF, creating a new company called Aesica Pharmaceuticals with 140 staff.... [more]

JT Dove has acquired Auckland Timber & Builders Merchants of Bishop Auckland, taking its chain to seven branches.... [more]