Division Sale News in the Leisure And Lifestyle sector

Punch Taverns, the largest pub operator in the UK, may sell some of its best public houses in order to address its substantial debt of £4. [more]

West Midlands-based Enterprise Inns is going to sell off 200 loss-making pubs in an effort to raise between £100m and £200m. The pub operator puts its fallin [more]

MUI, a listed business in Malaysia, is looking at selling of some of its poor-performing hotels located in the UK as the group continues to review its hotel business. MUI now runs 13 hotels - 11 in the UK and two in Malaysia. [more]

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Active has put in a bid to purchase parts of Esporta, the health club chain which is up for [more]

PA Sport, is under review by the parent company, PA Group, the UK-based news service. The sports section, PA Sport, may be put up for sale. [more]

Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pubs firm, has said that it will consider a demerger of its managed Spirit division, following lower profits than expected due to the wettest summer on rec [more]

A group of investors led and advised by Quinlan Private, a leading international property investment and advisory group, and Igal Ahouvi Group, an international real estate investor, have completed the acquisition of a portfolio of 47 hotels in the UK, operated by Marriott International, from the Royal Bank of Scotland for approximately £1. [more]

UK pub and restaurant operator Gourmet Holdings has reportedly put its Bel and The Dragon division up for sale again after exclusive negotiations with [more]

Private equity group Alchemy Partners has apparently approached two potential buyers of its QHotels business according to a report. QHotels operates 2 [more]

Lehman Brothers, the US-based investment bank, is preparing to sell its shareholding in The Sanderson and St Martins Lane hotels. The two boutique ho [more]

CPL Entertainment Group, the Scottish nightclub operator, has put two of its nightclubs up for sale in order to concentrate on expanding other venues in its portfolio. [more]

Spanish technology group Amadeus is reported to be moving towards a sale of Opodo, its online travel agency, after implementing a restructuring of the [more]

The Royal Bank of Scotland is thought to have secured a deal to sell 47 UK Marriott hotels to an Israeli property company and its partners for £1.1b [more]

First Choice, the UK-listed holiday company, has announced it is in talks with a number of parties over the sale of its package holiday division, causing share prices to jump by almost 13 percent. [more]

Luminar, the UK-listed nightclub group whose brands include Liquid, Oceana and Life, has confirmed that negotiations to sell its entertainment division are at an “advanced stage [more]

Cineworld, the UK cinema chain majority owned by private equity group Blackstone, is considering a sale or flotation. The company is reportedly holdin [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 announ [more]

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

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

Nikko Prinipal Investmnets, the Japanese investment fund, is rumoured to be considering the sale of Menzies Hotels, its UK chain of 16 luxury four-sta [more]