Ascribe has acquired Park Systems, the Liverpool-based supplier of retail pharmacy computer systems, for up to £0.4m, and the business will relocate to Ascribe's headquarters in Bolton.... [more]

Pennon is to acquire Brett Waste Management, the operator of landfill and power generation sites in Kent and Essex, for an estimated £50m.... [more]

Sigma 3 has acquired Hammonds & Co, the Sussex-based supplier of kitchens and bathrooms with 20 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

The Grove Wharf and Neap House 190-acre port complex on the River Trent in North Lincolnshire has been sold to a management team for an estimated £25m.... [more]

Ratcliff, the Welwyn Garden City-based tail-lift manufacturer with 220 staff, has been acquired by Palfinger of Austria for undisclosed terms.... [more]

The Restaurant Group has acquired the Blubeckers chain of 17 restaurants from CI Traders for £27m.... [more]

Land Securities saw its share price rise 3p to 1471p on bidrumours, according to a market report in The Guardian. The newspaper did not specify whether the UK-listed property group was a rumoured bid... [more]

Skandia, the Swedish insurance company, may be targeted byanother bidder, according to Dagens Industri. The paper reported, citing unnamed sources, that a new possible bidder, which was not named in ... [more]

Ernst and Young have been appointed to work with Ramco to find a buyer for its 86.5% interest in the Seven Heads Gas field located in the Celtic Sea off the south coast ofIreland. Ernst and Young wil... [more]

HBOS, the fourth-biggest bank in Britain, is planning tosell off between 10 and 15 retail branches in Ireland to third parties. This is according to an unsourced item in the Financial Times. HBOS sai... [more]

Canterbury Travel, the holiday company that specialises inChristmas trips to Lapland, is seeking to sell an unspecified, though significant portion of the business. According to a report in the Times... [more]

KarstadtQuelle, the troubled German retailer, has informedBC Partners that it is examining alternative bidders for its 75 small department stores, the Financial Times Deutschland reported. The report... [more]

Cablevision Systems, the US media and cable business, isplanning to spin off its media assets. A press release written by Cablevision owners the Dolan family said that Charles Dolan will continue as ... [more]

Stockbroker Williams de Broe has been unable to find a buyersince it was put on the market by ING. An article in the Sunday Express quoted a source at one of ING's competitors who told the paper no o... [more]

Blackstone, the US-based buyout group, is planning a bid forAllied Domecq's quick service restaurant (QSR) business, an unsourced Sunday Times report said. Blackstone was part of the consortium heade... [more]

Jane Norman, the UK-based clothing retailer, has had talkswith six bidders. Baugur, the Icelandic retail group, is one of the bidders. Other bidders who have met with Jane Norman's management are Bar... [more]

UKRD, the private radio group, has hired KPMG CorporateFinance to look into a potential sale. An offer is already thought to have been made to the company. Local Radio Company and Ulster Television h... [more]

Mappin & Webb, the European watch retailer, has hiredCavendish Corporate Finance to conduct an auction of the group. European Acquisition Capital, Mappin's major shareholder, attempted to exit the bu... [more]

Pendragon PLC, Britain's number-one car dealer, is thesubject of talk regarding a potential offer, according to a market report in the Guardian. A bidder was not named, but Pendragon's share price ju... [more]

UK Coal saw its share price rise on unspecified rumours offurther bidding, an unsourced market report in The Times said. The UK-listed coal miner saw 3.6m shares change hands on unspecified rumours t... [more]