Eicom has acquired Job Channel, the interactive job advertising channel, from Multimedia Television for an initial £0.1m.... [more]

Cardinal Packaging has secured a £6m investment to fund the expansion of its carrier bag manufacturing business in Ebbw Vale, with the creation of 66 new jobs.... [more]

International Power is to acquire the Saltend power station near Hull from Calpine, in a £500m deal with Mitsui.... [more]

Somerfield has sold its Mace wholesale operations in Scotland to Palmer & Harvey McLane, which is expected to lead to the closure of the Aberness Service Centre in Aberdeen with the loss of 75 jobs.... [more]

Avebury Taverns has sold 253 pubs to Admiral Taverns for about £70m, and the remaining chain of 450 pubs is now expected to be put up for sale.... [more]

Scottish & Newcastle is to sell the UK distribution rights for Beck's beer to InBev in a £67m deal, and the proceeds will be used to advertise its core brands.... [more]

Carclo is to sell its ECC Card Clothing business, including operations in the UK, France, Italy, Turkey, Canada, India, China and the US to NV Bekaert for up to £8.6m.... [more]

HJ Heinz, the listed US food giant, has announced its intentions to sell the HAK line of prepared vegetables in Northern Europe and has commenced a strategic review of its seafood and frozen businesse... [more]

Davis Service is to sell its Elliott modular buildings business to a management buy-out backed by TDR Capital for £166m.... [more]

Intercontinental Hotels Group will look to find buyers for another 22 sites worth in the £420m range, according to the Financial Times. The item noted that the move comes in light of a sell-off made p... [more]

Scottish Power is to sell its PacifiCorp electricity generation and supply business in the US to Berkshire Hathaway for £5.1bn.... [more]

Britannia Building Society is to acquire 97 Bristol & West bank branches from Bank of Ireland in a £150m deal, and about 32 branches are expected to close with the rest being rebranded as Britannia.... [more]

Merchant Retail, the listed perfume retailer and department stores group, may spin off Joplings Financial Services and Chargecard in September 2005 according to reports.... [more]

British Land, the UK-listed property company, may sell its Broadgate development in the City of London and Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield. British Land acquired Broadgate three years ago for ... [more]

N Brown is to sell Teleview, its Leigh-based television rental business with almost 100 staff, to Martin Dawes of Warrington for £6.3m.... [more]

Fine Colour Packaging has acquired Smurfit Cartons Witham, the Chelmsford-based cartons manufacturer with 90 staff, from Smurfit Cartons UK.... [more]

Unilever is to sell its worldwide perfume operations to Coty for £438m, including a manufacturing site in the US and a distribution centre in France.... [more]

Burford has sold the Trocadero leisure complex in London's Leicester Square to property investment company Golfrate for about £220m, and the site will be revamped with a hotel and larger retail units.... [more]

Kingston Communications has sold Arche Communications of France to Telindus of Belgium for £32m.... [more]

Avebury Taverns, the UK pubs operator, will release details of its review to sell up to 250 pubs "within a matter of weeks." This is according to the company's managing director David Myers, who added... [more]