German energy company RWE is to sell its UK-listed utility Thames Water. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs will reportedly be advising jointly on the sale while Barclays Capital will advise on RWE's str... [more]

Bruce Shaw Group has sold BSFM, the Irish facilities management company, to Newcourt Group for £3.3m.... [more]

IPT is to acquire Direct Excellence of Twickenham and MPCI of West Sussex for an initial £0.5m, on order to expand its market research business.... [more]

AP Hydraulics of Leamington Spa has been bought out of administration by Caparo Braking, securing the future of 170 jobs in its automotive braking systems business.... [more]

NYSE listed Campbell Soup Company has released the Information Memorandum regarding the sale of its UK and Ireland businesses. No bidders have been confirmed as yet, although Premier Foods, AB Foods a... [more]

Manugistics, the US-based developer of supply chain software with an office in Bracknell, has been acquired by JDA Software for £118m.... [more]

Paragon Group has acquired Aiza, the Lutterworth-based print management company with 42 staff, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Wilson Bowden has acquired Roland Bardsley Homes, the housebuilder with nine sites near Manchester, for £25m. Roland Bardsley will continue trading under its own name. Wilson Bowden is also taking on ... [more]

WILink, the online investor relations company, is to be acquired by SV Investment Partners of the US for £26m.... [more]

Tanfield Group has acquired the powered aerial platform equipment business of UpRight for £7.3m, including operations in Ireland, Japan and the US.... [more]

Whitbread has announced it is to sell the 260 pubs making up its Brewers Fayre and Beefeater chains. The move comes as part of a strategic decision to retain only those pubs sharing a site with its Pr... [more]

Brake Bros, the UK-based food service company, may be sold for £1bn by US private equity company Clayton Dubilier Rice. The company acquired Brake Bros in 2002 for £434m. ... [more]

Austrian Trade Union Federation-controlled Bagwag Bank has been officially put on the market, with US investment bank Morgan Stanley handling the sale. The bank was tainted by scandal last year when i... [more]

UK private equity company Permira has expressed interest in joining the forthcoming £1.4bn auction for Netherlands-based cable company Casema. Casema is owned by Carlyle, Providence and GMT, who bough... [more]

Lloyds TSB is rumoured to be selling its insurance arm Scottish Widows. Analysts predict that Lloyds, who will reportedly ask £10bn for the sale, would be able to sell Scottish Widows for more than it... [more]

Information on the sale of UK-based frozen foods businesses Birds Eye and Iglo will be available by the end of May. US-based bank Goldman Sachs is handling the sale. Birds Eye and Iglo are currently ... [more]

Just Learning, one of the UK's largest nursery chains with over 70 nurseries, is to be put up for sale. The sale will be handled by Deloitte, who are expected to release sale packs with detailed finan... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust is to acquire Genscape, the US-based provider of real-time energy generation and transmission information, for an initial £73m.... [more]

Creston is to acquire ICM Research for up to £37m and Tullo Marshall Warren and Colombus Communications for up to £38m, in order to expand its market research and direct marketing operations.... [more]

Mobile Streams has acquired Cyoshi Mobile, the German supplier of mobile media content, for £2m.... [more]