Sofa Workshop, the sofa chain owned by UK furniture retailer MFI, has received a number of bids including one from its founder Andrew Cussins, who sold the business to MFI in 2002. KPMG are handling t... [more]

Smith & Williamson, the independent financial services group, have appointed corporate finance group Hawkpoint to carry out a review of the company. The review could lead to a sale or a flotation. Smi... [more]

Ferrovial, the Spanish construction company, may have to dispose of UK airports following its £10bn takeover of BAA. Ferrovial has already hinted that it will dispose of non-UK airports, including not... [more]

The UK packaging group Linpac could be sold for as much as £1bn later this year. Current owner Montagu Private Equity is tipped to offload the business, after purchasing it from the Cornish family for... [more]

UK housebuilder McCarthy & Stone is in talks with private equity consortia Permira/ Barclays Capital and Augusta Capital over the sale of the company. McCarthy & Stone is estimated to be worth over £9... [more]

Financial Dynamics, the London-based communications consultancy is to be sold by its owner, private equity firm Advent International. The UK arm of Robert Baird, the investment firm which has a histor... [more]

Sage Group is to acquire Baurer, the German business management software company, for £16m.... [more]

Telephonetics is to acquire Voice Integrated Products, the Poole-based computer telephony company with 64 staff, for £12m. Total consideration of the acquisition is approximately £11.9m, comprising ap... [more]

Milestone has sold Passion, the Oxford-based radio station, to Absolute Radio International for £0.3m.... [more]

Spice Holdings has acquired Breval Technical Services, the Glasgow-based heating, ventilation and air-conditioning company, for £8.4m. The consideration is subject to adjustment based on the net asset... [more]

Metal Castings has been bought out of administration by US-based Marathon Asset Management, securing the future of more than 200 jobs at its Worcester-based aluminium die-casting business.... [more]

Autobar has acquired Vendaid Automatic Caterers, the Oldbury-based vending supplies company with 21 staff.... [more]

Resolution is to acquire the closed life funds of Abbey for £3.6bn, but its Albert Dock site in Liverpool will close with the loss of 120 jobs.... [more]

Greenvale, the potato supplier with 700 staff at sites in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Shropshire and Berwickshire, has been acquired by Produce Investment for about £11m. The new shareholder is a holding... [more]

Bizspace, the managed workspace provider, is to be acquired by Highcross for £77m. The price for the AIM-listed workspace provider is a premium of 21% to the fully diluted net asset value per share, 7... [more]

The appointment of Lehman Brothers as the new house broker for UK bank Lloyds TSB has prompted speculation of a sale from some sources, while others believe that the move could be a poison pill agains... [more]

Kudos, the UK-based TV production company responsible for hit drama Spooks, is considering a potential sale following a number of reported approaches. The company has appointed LongAcre Partners to co... [more]

Hyder Consulting has acquired Munnich Projekt and Entwicklungsgesellschaft, the German civil engineering firm with 15 staff, for £0.3m.... [more]

Invocas has acquired Wilson & Co, the Edinburgh-based insolvency practice, for £0.1m.... [more]

Synexus Clinical Research is to combine its Wigan and Chorley operations onto one site in Bolton, and has also announced the £1m acquisition of Diagnostic Units, the Hungarian clinical trials company.... [more]