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Punch Taverns agrees to £400m takeover from Heineken and Patron Capital

The two companies made the 180p per share bid through the vehicle Vine Acquisitions and will split the pubs between themselves. Heineken will buy around two-thirds of Punch’s portfolio of 3,000 pubs across the UK.

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