Wagon has sold Hawtal Whiting, the US-based engineering consultancy, to Acro Service Corp for £0.4m.... [more]

MediaZest is to acquire Touch Vision, the audio and screen subsidiary of Touch, for £3m.... [more]

PlaneStation's administrators are to sell Manston airport, which trades as Kent International, to Infratil of New Zealand for £17m, and freight operations are expected to resume soon.... [more]

Roxboro is to sell its Solartron measurement instruments business to Ametek of the US for £42m, and has also announced plans to change its name to Dialight.... [more]

Umeco has acquired Aviation Windings, the Luton-based supplier of wound components for use in electric motors and generators with 30 staff, from The Deritend Group for £1.6m.... [more]

Punch Taverns is to sell 45 pubs to Admiral Taverns (Cygnet) for £15m.... [more]

Rentokil, following the review by the new Chief Executive, Doug Flynn, of Rentokil Initial's businesses, has decided to dispose of Initial Style Conferences, subject to achieving satisfactory value th... [more]

Prudential, the UK-listed insurance provider, is weighing up the sale of shopping centres worth around £500m. The managing director of Prudential Property Investment Managers, Martin Moore, confirmed ... [more]

Heinz, the listed Pennsylvania-based company, has announced it is selling its European seafood and frozen food divisions. Without these sales Heinz sales from Europe would be cut by $1bn. Investment ... [more]

Mueller Europe has acquired Brassware Sales and Instox, two Birmingham-based plumbing product suppliers, from KX Group.... [more]

AB2000 has acquired the plant hire division of MB Engineering Services for £1.1m, and the 18 staff will transfer to its Cambuslang depot in Glasgow.... [more]

Studley Castle, the Warwickshire conference centre, is expected to be sold by Phoenix Venture Holdings to the Firoka Group for £4.5m.... [more]

HarperCollins, the generalist book publisher, could be considered non-core to News Corp, the US-listed media group. The business generates revenues in excess of USD 1bn. So, given that News Corp is fo... [more]

Royal Mail and Royal TPG Post are to sell Postal Preference Service, the direct marketing company, to Interactive Prospect Targeting Holdings for £4.3m.... [more]

BDO Stoy Hayward has sold The Sofa Company out of administration to Klaussner Beteiligungs, and at least 34 of the 80 stores are expected to re-open.... [more]

Alumasc, the high specification building and engineering products company, has announced that Alumasc Precision Limited (APL), its engineering subsidiary, is in discussions which could lead to the sal... [more]

Unilever has appointed Goldman Sachs to conduct a strategic review of its frozen food business. Unilever is believed to have appointed the US-based investment bank to conduct a review, which could lea... [more]

Heywood Williams is to sell its plastic window systems division, including 600 staff at sites in Macclesfield, North Lincolnshire and Trentham, to Latium Plastics for £3m, in order to focus on door ha... [more]

Metsec has acquired Stratford Joists from Joy Construction for undisclosed terms, in order to create the country's largest manufacturer of proprietary steel lattice joists.... [more]

Wraith is to acquire the portable accommodation assets of Bowood Event Hire for £4.4m.... [more]