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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAllied Domecq, Whitbread in acquisition talks
Nation's Restaurant News, May 17, 1999
LONDON -- Allied Domecq PLC said it is in preliminary discussions that may lead to Whitbread PLC's acquiring Allied's U.K. retailing business, a deal reportedly worth $3.7 billion.
The move would include Allied's 3,544 British pubs, its 50-percent share in the First Quench drinks store operated under a joint venture with Whitbread and its 25-percent stake in Britannia, which owns soft-drink concern Britvic.
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