The Pier, the homewares retailer with 45 stores, has been acquired by Lagerinn of Denmark for £8.6m, and is planning to open ten new outlets.... [more]

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Homebuyer Events, the UK property-exhibition organiser, has hired Media Mergers to look into a sale of the business. Homebuyer could fetchbetween £15m and £20m. Homebuyer appointed the corporate-fina... [more]

There is speculation UK listed Kingfisher and owner of B&Q is a target for private-equity groups. Kingfisher's market capitalisation stands at £5.8bn.... [more]

Venture Production, a UK independent oil and gas company,could see its gas operations become a takeover target. The group's gas operations comprise 60% of the company's total operations, and the larg... [more]

Westinghouse, the nuclear technology company owned by the UKGovernment, should see its sale completed by 2007, Chancellor Gordon Brown said in his annual Budget speech. 'We expect it to raise GBP 3bn... [more]

Williams de Broe, the UK stockbroker, may be put up for sale by its Dutch parent company, ING, which is reportedly seeking out potential bidders and have sent out memorandum of sale to some investors ... [more]

Blackwell, the British family-owned academic publisher, could be worth around £600m to potential buyers. Competitor Taylor & Francis offered £300m for Blackwell's four years ago although no sale happe... [more]

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American company Campbell Soup revealed that it would explore strategic alternatives, including possible divestiture, for its businesses in the U.K. and Ireland. The U.K. and Irish businesses have ann... [more]

The government is to sell off assets including most of the state-owned nuclear industry, the Tote, public spectrum airwaves and Ministry of Defence firing ranges as part of plans which could raise up ... [more]

Charisma Colourprint has bought Cherry Print, the Leeds-based printing company with 31 staff, out of administration.... [more]

Caudwell Group has sold Homecall, its Manchester-based telephone services business with more than 700 staff, to Pipex Communications for an estimated £43m.... [more]

The Labour party is to sell its Westminster headquarters and negotiate extensions to up to £14m of private loans in a desperate attempt to avoid a financial crisis. By selling the lease on its Old Que... [more]

Braemar Seascope has acquired DV Howells, the pollution response company with 27 staff in Milford Haven, Harlow, Rotherham, Huddersfield, Falmouth, Didcot and Perth, for an initial £0.4m.... [more]

Sage is to acquire Visma, the Norwegian accounting software company, for £334m.... [more]

IMI has sold Phoenix Interiors, the fit-out company with 35 staff, back to its original management team.... [more]

Mondi, the paper and packaging arm of UK mining giant AngloAmerican, is more likely to be in talks with a private equity firm than the Finnish Stora Enso. Paper giant Stora Enso is said to be conside... [more]

BOC-Linde, the merging UK and German industrial gas companies, could sell their electronic gases unit BOC Edwards once the deal completes. Edwards is very likely to stand on the disposal list after th... [more]

UK-headquartered Liberata will either be a consolidator inthe business process outsourcing (BPO) market or will itself be bought. Liberata have received numerous phone calls from advisors looking to ... [more]