Uswitch.com, the UK-based consumer website, has hired LongAcre Partners as adviser to a proposed sale. It is believed the company could fetch up to £100m (EUR 145m). Uswitch.com was founded in 2000 by... [more]

Volution Holdings, a Montagu Private Equity-backed air movement company formerly part of Smiths Group, is expected to be put up for sale in 2006. According to figures registered at the UK's Companies ... [more]

Planit Holdings has acquired Pathtrace, the CAM software developer with offices in Reading and Wakefield, for £5m.... [more]

Cinque Ports, the chain of 19 holiday parks, has been acquired by Graphite Capital for £130m.... [more]

QHotels has bought the 120-room Cheltenham & Gloucester Moat House hotel in Brockworth for about £19m.... [more]

Marks & Spencer is to acquire 28 stores on a leasehold basis from Iceland Foods for £38m, in order to expand its Simply Food format.... [more]

ITV is to sell 021 Television, its Birmingham-based outside broadcast facilities business, to Gravity Media Group for £4.5m.... [more]

European Motor Holdings has sold five car franchises in south Manchester to RRG Group for £13m, including Smith Knight Fay Holdingsí three Toyota businesses, one Lexus business and one Mazda franchise... [more]

Tilney is to acquire Clydesdale Bank's £300m discretionary investment management business for undisclosed terms, which could involve the transfer of up to 40 Glasgow-based staff.... [more]

Molinare has acquired Fusion Post Production for undisclosed terms, increasing its workforce by 24 to 114.... [more]

Resource Print Solutions, the Leeds-based printing company with 40 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.... [more]

WH Ireland is to acquire the Leeds-based institutional stockbroking business of TD Waterhouse, including a team of eleven that specialises in the leisure, retail, support services and transport sector... [more]

Ten Alps is to acquire Hart Davies TV, the factual TV production company, for up to £1m.... [more]

Automotive Applied Technologies is to acquire Lander Carlisle, the Birmingham-based injection moulder, which is expected to lead to some job losses among the 150 Birmingham-based staff.... [more]

York Helpers, the York-based homecare provider, has been acquired by Springfield Homecare of Leeds.... [more]

Spice Holdings is to acquire Baineport Engineering Services, the Ely-based electrical services company with 170 staff, for up to £5m.... [more]

General Electric's property subsidiary, Benchmark, has put over three acres of prime leaseholds in London's Belgravia up for sale at around £70m. The freehold is owned by the Duke of Westminster's Gro... [more]

The appointment of Phillip Bowman as the new CEO of ScottishPower is likely to hasten the sale of the company, one of the UK's "Big Six" power groups, according to UK power industry participants. It h... [more]

MessageLabs, the UK-based software company, is likely to sell its Star internet business for approximately £40m.Thus, the UK-listed internet provider, was mentioned as one potential bidder in the rep... [more]

Heinz, the US-based food company, has had over 40 approaches for its European frozen food subsidiary. The company set an initial deadline of December last year for bids,and Heinz anticipates making an... [more]