Alfred McAlpine plc has announced that it has completed the sale of its Welsh Slate business, one of the world’s foremost producers of roofing and architectural slate. The unit, which operates from fo... [more]

Eastman Chemical Company has announced it has entered into definitive agreements with Indorama to sell its PET facility and related businesses in the United Kingdom, and its PET and PTA facilities and... [more]

Filtronic plc has announced a definitive agreement for the sale of all of the share capital of Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Limited to RF Micro Devices Inc for £12.5m cash.  The transaction is ex... [more]

US-based PPG Industries, through a European subsidiary, has agreed to purchase the bodyshop distribution business of Unipart Automotive. The transaction is expected to close on or about Jan. 31, 2008.... [more]

As part of it's deal with the European Commission over it's acquisition of rival ICI, which owns Dulux, AKZO Nobel is to sell several of its Crown paint sites. The Warrington and Hull sites are now up... [more]

Yorpower Manufacturing Limited has acquired the diesel and gas maintenance business of Power Plant Services Limited. The acquired business will continue to trade as Power Plant Services (a division of... [more]

B3 Cable Solutions has announced that they have signed an agreement to purchase Indian based telecom cable manufacturing business UM Cables Ltd from Usha Martin Ltd., a company listed on the Indian st... [more]

Chemring Group PLC has announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Richmond Electronics & Engineering Limited from a private individual for a total consideration of £11m.... [more]

Visteon Corporation has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding outlining the understanding and status of discussions regarding the sale of its Swansea, United Kingdom operation to Linamar Co... [more]

Aga Foodservice Group plc has announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell Aga Foodservice Equipment, its commercial foodservice and bakery equipment business, to Ali SpA, the ma... [more]

Eleksen Group plc, the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for electronics interface design, is now to be put up for sale after appointing administrators. ... [more]

Avery Weigh-Tronix, the West-Midlands based manufacturer of industrial scales and weighing equipment, has announced its intention to sell its food retail weighing business, Avery Berkel, in order to f... [more]

Atmel Corporation has announced that it has entered into separate agreements with TSMC and Highbridge Business Park Limited for the sale of its eight-inch wafer fabrication equipment and related prope... [more]

Retraction- The Business Sale Report has been informed by a company spokesperson that Avon Rubber p.l.c. has not, as was previously reported in our November issue, announced plans to sell its Avon Pro... [more]

MacFarlane Group, the manufacturers and suppliers of cardboard, plastic and bespoke packaging, is looking to sell off non-core divisions of its manufacturing business in order to concentrate on its su... [more]

British Polythene Industries PLC has announced the acquisition of the AT Films business of AT Plastics Inc (Canada), a subsidiary company of Celanese Corporation, for a cash consideration of $12m subj... [more]

The Boards of Sky and Amstrad have announced that they have agreed the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Sky Digital Supplies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sky, for the entire issued and... [more]

SKF has signed an agreement with the British company Edwards Limited to acquire its subsidiary S2M, the world's leading company in magnetic bearings. SKF had already earlier 12% of the share capital i... [more]

Metso Paper has acquired Bender Holdings Limited and its subsidiary companies in the UK to further strengthen its aftermarket business. ... [more]

INEOS Group today announced that it has agreed to set up a Joint Venture with LANXESS, the German chemicals and polymers group, through which it is to take over the operation of the LANXESS ABS plasti... [more]