UK Businesses For Sale

Wedding present firm Wrapit says it is experiencing financial difficulties and is in talks with banks and advisers to avoid going into administration... [more]

Bridgepoint Capital has postponed its planned sale of 1st Credit, according to reports. Bridgepoint decided that offers for 1st Credit, the debt reco... [more]

Detica, a security technology firm, has seen its shares rise after receiving an informal bid approach from BAE Systems.The technology company has bee... [more]

Four Seasons, the troubled nursing-home chain worth £1.3bn, is to be rescued by The Royal Bank of Scotland as the chain's owner, the Qatar Investmen... [more]

Food & Drink Group (FDG), owners of the Jamies wine bar chain, is to be sold in a pre-packaged administration which will cover some of the group... [more]

The UK-based privately owned television production company, Rapido Television, has hired Livingstone Partners to manage the sale of the company. Rapi... [more]

The Co-operative Group, Britain's fifth largest supermarket chain, has finally agreed to buy rival Somerfield for £1.57bn, after the Co-op first exp... [more]

The brewer, Anheuser-Busch, has rejected a £23.3bn takeover bid from InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer.The formal rejection of InBev's takeover of... [more]

Cipriani, the famous Italian restaurant in London, could be put on the market soon.The owners, the Cipriani family, are thought to have appointed Gol... [more]

Dawnay Day, the financial services group, has hired administrators from Ernst & Young to conduct an emergency review of several of its businesses... [more]

Alliance & Leicester (A&L) has received a takeover approach from the Spanish banking group and Abbey owner, Santander. A&L has long been ... [more]

AIM-listed Dipford Group Plc has recently hired MCR to act as administrators in order to assess options for the business.Dipford acts as an agent for... [more]

BT has acquired the online business directory firm, Ufindus, for £20m from its Scottish parent company, Iomart.The move will help BT to step up to co... [more]

Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) has put three of its UK businesses up for sale two years after entering the UK market. Lexicon Partners are actin... [more]

Concateno, the UK's largest drug and alcohol testing group, has received several bid approaches. The company has hired UBS to assess options includ... [more]

Inmarsat, the UK-listed satellite communications provider has received a takeover offer from Harbinger Capital, the activist American hedge fund inve... [more]

Shipleys Amusements, the UK-based leisure group may soon be purchased by Nick Harding, one of the UK’s most established amusement arcade operators. T... [more]

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the British pay-TV group, is considering making a bid of €2.5bn for Spanish pay-TV platform, Digital Plus.It is exp... [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 ... [more]

Racal Acoustics, the Harrow-based maker of military communications headsets, could be put up for auction.ECI Partners have brought in corporate finan... [more]

J Sainsbury's, Britain's third-largest supermarket group, is considering selling its pension scheme.The supermarket chain has gathered quotes from ... [more]

Sun Capital, private equity group and the former owner of van maker LDV, is finalising a rescue takeover of the struggling UK-based furniture chain, ... [more]

Ilva Furniture, Danish furniture chain, has gone into administration after trading for only two years in the UK. The company has fallen victim to the... [more]

BG Group, the British oil and gas giant, have pitched a second £6.7 bn offer for the Australian energy group, Origin Energy, directly to the sharehol... [more]

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