HSS is to sell its RentX tool hire operations in the US, and the proceeds will be invested in its UK operations.... [more]

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), has admitted the company has put a further £1.3bn of assets up for sale. The majority of its UK assets, together with the Hotel InterContinental in Paris, are on t... [more]

Mappin & Webb, the upmarket high street jewellers that includes Watches of Switzerland, is putting its pawnbroking division, TM Sutton, up for sale. The decision comes six years after European Acquisi... [more]

NTL is finalising plans to put its television and radio broadcasting business on the market, according to sources. The sale is expected to generate at least £1.2bn for the UK's largest cable operator,... [more]

Laird has acquired Home Doors and Houseproud, both parts of the BHD Group, for £36m, securing the future of more than 300 jobs in Peterlee.... [more]

Ashtenne has sold the Port of Boston in Lincolnshire to Victoria Wharf for £5m.... [more]

British Airways is to sell its shares in Australian carrier Qantas, in part because the UK group believes airline consolidation is more likely to go ahead on a regional rather than global basis.... [more]

ITV chief executive Charles Allen has earmarked assets for sale worth £500m, including the company's stakes in cinema advertising and football clubs. Its Australian investments and education business,... [more]

Alumasc has acquired Timloc Building Products of Goole from Expamet International for £33m.... [more]

Investment bank NM Rothschild is offering informal advice to the BBC on the possible sale of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, as interest steps up in the broadcaster's diverse media assets. The bank... [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]

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]

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

Bella Italia and Cafe Rouge, two of the high street's best-known restaurant chains, could be put up for sale for more than £120m following the appointment of Hawkpoint, the boutique adviser, to study ... [more]

Venture Production is to acquire five North Sea oil blocks from Marubeni Oil & Gas for £28m.... [more]

Xenova has sold its biopharmaceuticals manufacturing facility in Canada to QSV Biologicals for £3m.... [more]

National Grid Transco has sold its four regional gas pipeline businesses for £5.8bn, with Scottish & Southern acquiring networks in Scotland and the south of England, Cheung Kong acquiring the north a... [more]