Hilton Group, the UK-listed leisure company, is believed to have appointed CBRE to handle the sale of 12 of its UK hotels valued at £300m. The Hilton London Olympia is believed to be among the hotels ... [more]

Blackstone, the US private equity group, has been cleared by the competition authorities for its recent acquisition of UGC's UK and Ireland operations. A company spokesperson said that Blackstone must... [more]

Thistle Hotels, the UK-based hotel company, is believed to be preparing a portfolio of 31 regional hotels for sale with an estimated asking price of £400m. The report explained that the hotels are par... [more]

Phoenix Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Bank Stores, the branded clothing retailer with 30 stores, as part of a £30m deal that will see the store network double in size over the next ... [more]

Queens Moat Houses, the UK leisure group, is hoping to raise £110m from the sale of nine hotels, according to the Times. The article noted that QMH, now owned by Goldman Sachs' Whitehall Street has ta... [more]

Exel has sold its Cory Environmental waste management business, which transports waste along the Thames and operates eight landfill sites, to Montagu Private Equity for £200m... [more]

Legal & General Ventures has sold a portfolio of seven companies to Vision Capital for undisclosed terms, including the TM Group of convenience stores, Trident Components and Coal Products... [more]

FKI has sold Laurence Scott & Electromotors to a new company called Gothic Works for £4m, securing the future of most of the 250 Norwich-based jobs... [more]

The Financial Times may soon be for sale. Its owner, the multinational publishing group Pearson which owns Penguin and Simon & Schuster, is coming under renewed pressure in front of what is likely to ... [more]

Shell UK is putting up for sale its Auk, Fulmar and Dunlin fields, which provide employment for about 470 staff. Shell announced that along with Esso Exploration and Production UK, an ExxonMobil subs... [more]

Deutsche Bank has still yet to announce a decision on the possible sale of Deutsche Asset Management in the UK. In late Feburary, Deutsche hired the UK financial consultancy Hawkpoint in a sign that i... [more]

Allied Domecq, the spirits group, has accepted a £7.4bn takeover bid from Pernod Ricard, with some of Allied's brands being acquired by Fortune Brands of the US... [more]

Cinven is to sell its McKechnie aerospace and engineering business and its Dynacast die-cast components business to Melrose for £429m... [more]

Allied Domecq, the spirits group, has accepted a £7.4bn takeover bid from Pernod Ricard, with some of Allied's brands being acquired by Fortune Brands of the US... [more]

Cinven is to sell its McKechnie aerospace and engineering business and its Dynacast die-cast components business to Melrose for £429m... [more]

Monsoon has bought 47 stores from Etam for £43m, taking its total chain of fashion stores to about 300... [more]

Shell has sold its InterGen power generation business to AIG and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a £1bn deal... [more]

Monsoon has bought 47 stores from Etam for £43m, taking its total chain of fashion stores to about 300... [more]

Shell has sold its InterGen power generation business to AIG and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a £1bn deal... [more]

Dutch bank ABN Amro has put its London headquarters on the market for an estimated £180m.The bank is selling and leasing back the 11-storey building at 250 Bishopsgate to take advantage of the strong ... [more]