Tyco Plastics has sold its plastic films business, which has 380 staff at plants in Potters Bar, Preston, Leeds and Brighouse, to Gil Investments for undisclosed terms.... [more]

CVC, the UK private equity group in the process of acquiring Cortefiel, will sell off Cortefiel assets and study acquisition opportunities should its bid succeed. CVC plans to sell and lease-back a nu... [more]

MG Rover's administrators will push on with plans to sell the assets of the carmaker that collapsed with debts of £1.4bn and more than 5,000 jobs losses. Speaking after a meeting with creditors in Bir... [more]

Inveresk is to sell its Gemini paperboard brand to Tullis Russell Papermakers of Glenrothes for up to £7m, which is expected to involve the closure of its Carrongrove Mill in Stirlingshire in November... [more]

Spirax-Sarco Engineering has acquired Actuators & Controls and Proportional Control Technology of South Africa for £2.3m.... [more]

William Ransom & Son is to acquire Optima Healthcare, the supplier of aloe vera products with sites in Cardiff, Bradford and Newbury, for £23m.... [more]

Aegis Group is to acquire AMT, the Italian market research company, for an initial £1.1m, in order to expand its Synovate global research network.... [more]

Tanfield Group is to acquire the assets of Norquip, the supplier of lifts and ramps, and Saxon, the supplier of specialist vehicles, for a total £0.3m.... [more]

Britannic Group is to merge with Resolution Life Group, creating a combined closed life fund business valued at about £1.8bn.... [more]

Mersey Docks & Harbour Company is to be acquired by Peel Ports for £771m, which could lead to new leisure and retail developments on the Liverpool waterfront.... [more]

Asda is to announce plans to set up its first store on Anglesey, with the creation of 120 jobs, having bought a site in Llangefni from Safeway.... [more]

N Brown, the home shopping group, has sold its personal loans business to an unnamed buyer for £10m.... [more]

Grabor Plastics, the Suffolk-based extrusion blow moulder and bottle decorator, has been acquired by Polimoon for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Sara Lee Corporation will begin the sales process for its European meats business in July, and will look to sell the business as one unit, a spokesperson said. An industry banker said Sara Lee has dis... [more]

Logistics group Christian Salvesen may be open to interest, according to chairman David Smith. The company aborted takeover talks with TDG at the end of 2004 but Smith said if interest were shown in S... [more]

Rover parent Phoenix Venture Holdings has put Studley Castle, a conference venue, up for sale and pledged the proceeds to laid-off Rover workers. The Grade II listed castle is expected to raise more t... [more]

David Webster has sold its Hertfordshire-based street lighting and project management business to the ETDE subsidiary of Bouygues.... [more]

Lornamead has bought Vosene shampoo and other personal care brands from Procter & Gamble for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Invensys has sold most of its Advanced Building Systems business to Schneider Electric of France for £81m.... [more]

Premier Research is to acquire EPA Euro Pharma Auftragsforschung, the German pharmaceutical contract research organisation, for an initial £3.2m.... [more]