Hilton Hotels has sold its London and Birmingham Metropole hotels to Tonstate for £417m, but will retain the management contracts.... [more]

TNT, the Dutch mail and express delivery service, has announced plans to sell its freight management division. ... [more]

BioProgress is to acquire the US pharmaceutical trading assets of AirPharma for £4.2m, including 20 brands.... [more]

Bridgepoint, the UK private equity firm, has put its Swedish care homes business up for sale just one year after buying the company. Bridgepoint paid around €245m for Attendo in 2005, and analysts pre... [more]

Signet, the specialist jewellery retailer with operations in the US and UK, is under fresh pressure to sell its UK businesses after an informal approach from an unnamed private equity company. The com... [more]

Gaming Corporation, the AIM-listed online gaming company, is to put its internet and mobile gaming operations up for sale. The company has also announced that it is to rename itself Media Corporation.... [more]

MJ Gleeson, the UK-listed property and construction company has announced plans to sell of its remaining non-core operations over the next two years in order to make returns to investors before the th... [more]

Guardian Media Group's chief executive Carolyn McCall has stated that the company would be prepared to sell Trader Media, its listings subsidiary, should it receive an offer of £1.5bn for the business... [more]

Rexam has confirmed the sale of part of its food plastic packaging operations in Gloucestershire, Sweden and Denmark to an undisclosed buyer for £25m.... [more]

DaimlerChrysler, the German car manufacturer, has hinted that its Chrysler division could be put up for sale less than a month after inisisting that it was a core business. Daimler's finance director ... [more]

Tate & Lyle, the UK-based sugar producer, has announced plans to put all or part of its food and industrial ingredients business up for sale in the wake of recent EU sugar reforms. ... [more]

Thomson, the global electronic publisher and data provider, has put its education division, Thomson Learning, up for sale in a move to realign its operations.... [more]

Rexam, the UK-listed packaging company, announced that it has started the process to sell its refillable PET bottle operation, Rexam Petainer, which is based in Sweden and the Czech Republic. It is a ... [more]

Grove Energy has sold most of its UK North Sea oil and gas licences to EnCore Oil, in return for 9.9m EnCore shares.... [more]

Amec, the UK-based industrial services company, is considering the sale of all or part of its infrastructure arm in order to concentrate on its energy business.... [more]

Whitbread, the UK-listed leisure group, has confirmed that it has entered into “formal discussions” over the sale of its TGI Fridays restaurant chain.... [more]

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MJ Gleeson, the UK construction company, has sold its engineering division to Black and Veatch Corp of the US for a cash consideration of £36m.... [more]

MJ Gleeson is to sell its engineering division, the Leatherhead-based water services business with 950 staff throughout the country, to Black & Veatch of the US for £36m.... [more]

Greene King, the UK-listed pub retailer and brewer, has reportedly put around 150 of its pubs up for sale. ... [more]