Whitbread is to sell its Courtyard by Marriott hotels for £79m, and Kew Green Hotels Group will operate the sites through a franchise agreement with Marriott International... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group is to sell its Japanese branch operations to American Home Assurance Company and AIU Insurance Company for £92m... [more]

Three of Britain's most famous desert brands - Bird's Custard, Angel Delight, and Dream Topping - have been put up for auction by their owner, US multinational Kraft Foods.... [more]

Brixton has acquired a portfolio of 163 industrial properties from Industrious Holdings for £675m... [more]

The Sainsbury family would consider selling their 36 per cent stake in the supermarket chain for 400p a share, according to sources close to the company. The figure represents a 50 per cent premium to... [more]

Northern Foods is to sell the Cavaghan & Gray Seafood chilled and frozen fish business to IFP Holdings, a subsidiary of Icelandic Group, for £13m, which will involve the transfer of 240 staff based in... [more]

Bridgeport Machines, the Leicester-based engineering company, has gone into receivership with the loss of about 120 jobs, while the sales and support division has been acquired by Hardinge Group... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes has acquired the Orangina soft drink brand from Pernod Ricard for £21m... [more]

Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly, one of London’s most exclusive shopping destinations, has been put up for sale by the Prudential with a £56m price tag. The Pru has appointed CB Richard Ellis, the pro... [more]

Speculation is mounting that P&O could be considering selling off its ferry business. The possible disposal has been welcomed by a spokesman for ships officers' union Numast, who predicted a new owner... [more]

NWF Group has sold five country stores to Countrywide Farmers for £2.4m, and has also announced the acquisition of Victoria Garden Centre for £6.1m... [more]

Britvic has acquired the water division of Huddersfield-based soft drinks company Ben Shaws, which employs 48 staff... [more]

Leisure group Whitbread is likely to ditch the TGI Friday restaurant chain unless it performs significantly better. The 41-branch hamburger chain is run as a franchise in Britain, but Whitbread will s... [more]

Hill & Smith is to buy part of Lionweld Kennedy out of receivership, including the flooring, highways and galvanizing divisions, for £2.6m... [more]

Lookers has acquired Darlington Volkswagen from Mill Garages for £0.8m, in order to complement its existing VW dealership on Teesside... [more]

RPC is to acquire the European plastic packaging operations of Nampak for £23m, and the Woburn Sands site will be closed and production transferred to the other two sites in Haltwhistle and Llantrisan... [more]

Cybit Holdings has acquired the mapAmobile mobile location service from MI International, in order to expand its fleet and asset management operations... [more]

Blacks Leisure has acquired 27 Outdoors stores from the Scout Association for £2.6m... [more]

The Rolls-Royce plant at Hillington, which makes the turbine blades that spin around inside Rolls-Royce engines, is to be closed and put up for sale next year. A new factory has been constructed four ... [more]

Ford, owners of Jaguar Racing, have put the team and its sister company Cosworth Racing up for sale.... [more]