Division Sale News - written by Rob Moore

Mears Group is looking to sell Haydon, its ‘non-core’ mechanical and engineering d [more]

United Biscuits (UB), the UK's largest biscuit maker, could be split up in a bid to hasten a s [more]

The Habitat brand and the company's three leading London stores have been bought by the Home Retail Group, which already owns Argos and Homeb [more]

Education and activity travel provider Holidaybreak is mulling a sale of several subsidiaries as it looks to focus on its school trips operations. [more]

GLM, the trade show management company, has been put up for sale by Daily Mail & General Trust for around £120 [more]

Southern Cross’s latest strategy to keep bankruptcy at bay is to release 180 care homes from its ownership. About 30 homes will shut down, 100 may be taken over by rival care home ope [more]

The UK's largest remaining independent computer maker, MESH Computers, has entered administration - but has almost immediately seen its brand and assets sold on to another computer company. No sooner had administrators from MacIntyre Hudson been appointed to han [more]

Administrators have said that they are optimistic that a buyer will be found for the administration-struck leisure company, Principle Leisure Group. [more]

A swathe of SPAR stores is being marketed for a sale by Christie + Co, after having been identified by the owners as non-core. [more]

Two hotels in Norfolk and Suffolk have been saved from the administration of their parent company after being swiftly bought up by a rival hotel group. [more]

Derek Coates is preparing to sell his vitamin supplements business as he looks to cut down his own workload. [more]

Luxury holiday group Western & Oriental is to sell its tour operating business after receiving several expressions of interest from third part [more]

A Scottish health board is planning to offload millions of pounds worth of its property portfolio in an attempt to reduce its £70 million def [more]

United Utilities Contract Solutions, provider of metering, waste treatment and connections for utility companies, has attracted plenty of interest after being placed on the market for £ [more]

Guardian Media Group is mulling a sale of its regional newspaper division GMG Regional Media, and has held preliminary talks to that end over the past few months. [more]

The former Burberry head office in London has been placed on the market for £20m as part of a sell-off of trophy assets in Paul Kemsley's £500m Rock p [more]

Deutsche Telekom has entered talks with Vodafone, Spain's Telefonica and France Telecom about selling T-Mobil [more]

Shortly after selling a 20% stake in British Energy to Centrica in a £2.3bn deal, EDF is prepared to sell further st [more]

BAA has received three offers for Gatwick which, at between £1.3billion to £1.4billion, falls £200 million short of th [more]

Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile UK, is to decide whether to sell the underperforming UK business. [more]