Coolabi has bought the business and assets of the children's division of Zenith Entertainment out of administration.... [more]

SMG, the information and entertainment service provider, is to sell Pearl & Dean, its cinema advertising business, and Primesight, its outdoor advertising business. An offer for Pearl & Dean from Iris... [more]

Johnson Service Group has announced it is to consider a number of offers for its high street dry cleaning division. Analysts believe that Johnson had initially hoped the division would fetch between £... [more]

Finning has sold its West Midlands-based materials handling division to Sammons Enterprises of the US for £85m, and the 986 staff will be transferred to the Briggs Equipment UK subsidiary of Sammons.... [more]

Edward Billington & Son has sold Classic Couverture, the Speke-based chocolate manufacturer with 110 staff, to Archer Daniels Midland Company of the US for an estimated £10m.... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has sold its Study Group International language training business to CHAMP Private Equity and Petersen Investments for £75m. Study Group provides university pathway and degr... [more]

Aga Foodservice has acquired Amana Commercial Microwaves of the US from the Whirlpool Corporation for £26m.... [more]

GlynWebb, the Oldham-based chain of 27 DIY stores with 650 staff, has been sold by private equity firm Endless to a consortium of local businessmen for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Scientific, the UK-based company which produces laboratory equipment, could be disposed of by its parent company, JSE-listed Barloworld. Analysts have said the scientific division did not complement t... [more]

Medal Entertainment & Media has sold the Fountain Television Studios in Wembley to InvestinMedia for £1.5m in cash. At 31st March 2006, Fountain's net assets stood at £1.7m. Fountain are the UK's larg... [more]

City Invoice Finance, the Manchester-based finance company with 45 staff, has been acquired by Venture Finance, the Sussex-based division of ABN Amro, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

United Utilities has received first round bids for its Vertex business service division, but maintains that a sale is just one of several options being considered. Private equity firm 3i and Quantras,... [more]

Horizon Technology is to sell Clarity Ireland, the Irish distributor of IT products with 49 staff, to Westcoast for £4.2m.... [more]

TriVest VCT has sold Secure Mail Services, the Northampton-based provider of business mail solutions with 550 staff, to Candover for £4.2m. TriVest will also receive a further £1.5m over the next thre... [more]

UK tampon manufacturer Lil-lets is reportedly up for sale for up to £100m. Buyout group Graphite Capital is tipped to win the auction. Lil-lets is a subsidiary of Accantia. Citigroup is handling the a... [more]

Sytner has acquired nine DaimlerChrysler and BMW car dealerships from Ryland Group for undisclosed terms, including sites in Carlisle, Newcastle, Stockton, Sunderland, Birmingham, Warley, Cardiff, New... [more]

Huveaux is to acquire Letts Education and Leckie & Leckie, the Scottish publishers of study guides, from Veronis Suhler Stevenson for £12m.... [more]

Rank Group, the UK-listed leisure company, is to dispose of its remaining Deluxe Media businesses. These consist of a DVD replication and distribution business in the US and a Central European distrib... [more]

Ford, the struggling US-listed car manufacturer, has reportedly hired advisors over the sale of its Aston Martin business. The asking price has been provisionally set at $2bn, although insiders sugges... [more]

Novelis, the US-listed aluminium producer, is reviewing the strategic options for its European technical products business, which include a potential sale. The business consists of three plants in Ger... [more]