The bookmaker William Hill has recently disposed of its 50 per cent share in William Hill Codere Italia, its Italian joint venture, for £4.4m. The sale of the sports betting business will result in a ... [more]

Tate & Lyle has handed over its international sugar trading business to Bunge, US-based oilseed processor.The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The trading business had gross assets of £288m (... [more]

Harry Irving & Co, the Bootle-based pet products supplier, has been bought out of administration by Petlife Ventures.... [more]

MarineTrack, the West Sussex-based telematics firm with 12 staff, is to be purchased by XSN in a £1.5m reverse takeover.... [more]

Ten Alps has bought Twenty First Century Media, the Tyneside-based video production company with operations in Glasgow, Leeds and London, for £800k.... [more]

Arriva has purchased Empresa de Blas y Cia, the Spanish bus operator with 679 staff, for £79m.... [more]

Gardner Energy Management, the Bristol-based steam traps manufacturer, has been bought by Thermal Energy International of Canada for £2.7m.... [more]

Tate & Lyle is to sell its global sugar trading operations to Bunge of the US for an undisclosed amount, so that itc an focus on sugar refining.... [more]

British Airways is to buy L'Avion, the French business-class airline, for £54m. The intention is to expand its OpenSkies subsidiary.... [more]

Vitacress Salads, the Andover-based salad grower and distributor with about 1,000 employees, has been bought by RAR of Portugal for £50m.... [more]

Framlingham Farmers, based in Suffolk has merged with Framlingham Farmers, creating a farming business called AtlasFram Group with annual sales of £100m.... [more]

Carco Group has bought Bryan Brothers, the Bristol-based Citroen car dealership with 82 staff, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Wavin has purchased Warmafloor, the Fareham-based supplier of under-floor heating systems with 56 staff, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

British Airways has bought L'Avion, a privately owned French business-class airline that flies between Paris and New York, in a deal worth £54m.The acquisition will boost the number of flights BA oper... [more]

J Sainsbury's, Britain's third-largest supermarket group, is considering selling its pension scheme.The supermarket chain has gathered quotes from some buyout groups regarding the £2bn final salary sc... [more]

Racal Acoustics, the Harrow-based maker of military communications headsets, could be put up for auction.ECI Partners have brought in corporate finance advisers at Hawkpoint to assess the strategic op... [more]