Emap, the media group, is retreating from France after 11 years, putting its poorly performing French consumer magazines up for sale. The disposal is likely to raise between £300m and £400m, analysts ... [more]

An Iranian businessman has declared an interest in the sale of two of the UK’s major care home operators. Entrepreneur Vincent Tchenguiz has expressed an interest in purchasing both Four Seasons Healt... [more]

Sara Lee Apparel is trying to speed through the sale of its British Sara Lee Courtaulds textile business by agreeing to assume $483m of pension obligations. The move comes after Sara Lee completed the... [more]

Adare Group, the Irish packaging and printing business, may be on the market soon according to reports. Operating profits at the group stood at over £17m for last year. A strategic review is currently... [more]

CT Glass, the Bradford-based glass and mirror supplier, has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing the future of 114 jobs.... [more]

IMI has acquired Truflo, the valve manufacturer, for £120m, and is now looking to spend a further £80m on bolt-on acquisitions over the next few years.... [more]

BOC, the industrial gases group, is to be acquired by Linde of Germany for £8bn.... [more]

ICI, could be considering disposing of some of its lower-margin businesses. UBS have reported that Quest, the perfume and flavourings business may be up for sale list among other operations bought fro... [more]

Talarius has acquired Leisurama, the chain of 19 gaming and bingo centres in the north of England, for £12m.... [more]

Telent is to sell its Chorley-based payphones manufacture and repair business to Teknowledge Group for an initial £0.3m.... [more]

Polaroid has sold Wideblue, its Vale of Leven-based design development department with 15 staff, to management for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Bank of Scotland Corporate has provided a £10m debt and equity package to support a management buy-out at Mono Global, the Glasgow-based mobile telecoms support company with 150 staff at five sites.... [more]

Lupus Capital has acquired Schlegel, the manufacturer of window seals, for £84m in a reverse takeover.... [more]

Drivers Jonas has acquired Erdman Lewis Rating, the property rating business with 14 staff in London and Reading.... [more]

The process of selling Shell's liquid petroleum gas operations will result in a break up. Shell is now focussed on selling the business in two parts. The businesses now being sold are said to be the F... [more]

Honeywell, the New Jersey-based industrial conglomerate, is expected to put First Technology's crash test dummies business up for sale after completing its acquisition of the UK listed group. Honeywel... [more]

Spectro, the UK engineering group, has had some offers for the business. Spectro provides oil, fuel, hydraulic fluid and debris analysis services to international oil companies, engine manufacturers a... [more]

Galliford Try is to acquire Morrison Construction Services, Morrison Highway Maintenance and Morrison Project Investments from AWG for £42m, with the transfer of more than 1,500 staff at offices throu... [more]

Hanson is to acquire Civil & Marine, the producer of cement substitutes with five grinding plants and four distribution depots, for £245m, as well as Material Service Corporation, the US aggregates pr... [more]

Tepnel Life Sciences has acquired the Cambridge-based GenXTrak DNA extraction business from Whatman for undisclosed terms.... [more]