Business Sale News in the Food sector

Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based pub operator and brewer, has put 35 pubs up for sale, representing around 10% of its entire estate. [more]

Lion Capital, the private equity firm, may soon put its Kettle Foods [more]

Two dairies owned by the Dairy Farmers of Britain Ltd are to be sold in an online auction handled by King Sturge Plant & Machin [more]

Chocolate desert and soufflé producer, Gu, has been put up for sale by its founders, and has already received expressions of interest from chocolate giants, Nestle and [more]

Following negative sales growth at Tootsies, the burger restaurant chain, owners Clapham House have written down the value of the under-performing business by £24.2m and indicated that they would not be adverse to sellin [more]

Bakery company Finsbury Foods has seen its shares rise by 30% over the past week due to a preliminary takeover approach. [more]

Leaf International, the company behind Chewits, the well known sweets brand, could be put on the market after the owners hired UBS to seek out interest in the business. Leaf International, which is owned by [more]

C&C Group Plc, the producer of Magners cider, could go on the market after John Dunsmore was appointed as its new chief executi [more]

Ilchester Cheese, the Somerset-based maker of blended cheeses, may be about to go on the market with a sale price of £ [more]

The brewer, Anheuser-Busch, has rejected a £23.3bn takeover bid from InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian br [more]

One of Scotland's largest food companies, Grampian Country Foods, has recently been acquired by the Dutch food producer, Vion, for an estimated &p [more]

Diageo, drinks company, is to announce restructuring plans for its Irish Guinness business. This plan might include closing down a large part of its tourist attraction brewing site in Dublin. If that were to happen, a new replacement brewery would be built in Clondalkin, north of Dublin. [more]

The founders of Eat, the nationwide sandwich company, are considering a sale of the business. [more]

Grampian, the largest supplier of meat and poultry to the UK's supermarkets is currently being bid for by two major foreign meat suppliers: Vion, the Dutch giant and Sadia, a Brazilian com [more]

West Sussex-based pasta, sauces, gravies, stocks and soups manufacturer, Pasta Reale, has appointed Grant Thornton to explore trade sale options. [more]

Reports have come in that the founders of Organix Brands, Mike Thrasher and his wife Lizzie Vannand, are exploring the possibility of a trade sale. The company, which makes organic baby food, posted annual revenues of £18.8m to June last year, with profits of £1.6m, up by 60% on the previ [more]

Tyrrells Potato Chips (Tyrrells) could be put on the block with a potential price tag of over GBP 20m (EUR 26.8m). [more]

Dorset Cereals, the luxury healthy cereal brand owned by private equity firm Langholm Capital, could be up for sale for around £ [more]

Grampian Country Food Group, one of the UK's largest food groups, is now up for s [more]

The Boards of Christian Salvesen and GND have announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition by GND of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Christian Salvesen at a price of 92.0 pence in cash for each Christian Salvesen Share, valuing Christian Salvesen's fully diluted share capital at approximately &pou [more]