Division Sale News in the Retail sector

Mosaic, the owner of several retail chains, has received numerous offers for Principles, the womenswear retailer aimed at women in their thirties. [more]

KPMG has been lined up as administrator for JJB Sports' struggling fashion businesses OSC and Qube after failing to find a buyer. 800 jobs have been left hanging in the bal [more]

On December 24th, Punch Taverns offered 500 lessees first refusal on their pub leases before putting them up for sale on the open market. [more]

High street retailer Woolworths is in the early stage of discussions to sell its struggling retail operations to distressed fund Hilco. It is thought that Hilco would avoid taking on [more]

The founder of Carphone Warehouse, Charles Dunstone, is understood to be reviewing the future of his broadband internet division, TalkTalk. A disposal of TalkTalk would create more value for shareholders. It has been speculated [more]

The Co-operative's takeover of Somerfield has been given the go-ahead by the Office of Fair Trading, on the condition that they sell off 126 local st [more]

Akzo Nobel, has hired Greenhill, to be their advisors on the sale of its UK paint brand, Crown Paints, according to reports. The sale was part of the remedies required to quickly approve the Dutch company's purchase of UK-chemicals competitor, [more]

Baugur, the Icelandic private equity group, is rumoured to be considering a sale of its Criminal clothing brand, with retail experts tipped to be the [more]

Gerald Ratner, the British entrepreneur, has revealed that he would consider a sale of his online jewellery business, GeraldOnline, if a suitably high [more]

Robert Tchenguiz, the Iranian property tycoon, is tipped to put nine Welcome Break service stations up for sale with an asking price of £365m. [more]

Aga Foodservice Group, the UK oven maker, has announced it is considering the sale of its US division, Domain. [more]

Administrators at Wigan-based television retailer H Plumb and Son say they may be able to sell part of the business after the company went into liquidation. [more]

Private equity firm 3i have been tipped to sell ladies clothing retailer Hobbs. The group is thought to be hiring Hawkpoint to advise on a sale, which [more]

Signet, the specialist jewellery retailer with operations in the US and UK, is under fresh pressure to sell its UK businesses after an informal approa [more]

Gerald Ratner, the British entrepreneur, could reportedly sell off Ernest Jones, his high street jewellery business, if he succeeds in acquiring the B [more]

Harris, the US-based investment firm which owns a [more]

UK retail group AWG Property is rumoured to be reviewing the options for Shawlands, the shopping mall it acquired in July. Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ar [more]

DSG International is tipped to sell its struggling retail chain The Link to O2 following another month of disappointing sales for the company. Mobile [more]

French private equity firm PAI Partners is looking at buyers for European retail giant Vivarte, which runs the Kookai franchise in the UK. A number of [more]

Universe Group, the UK-based retail and information company is to dispose of its currency division as part of a strategy to concentrate on its HTEC el [more]