Thursday, 7 February 2008

M&B merger proposal from Punch

Mitchells & Butlers' shareholders must be wondering how it has come to this. Punch's opportunistic approach to the wounded UK pubs group, confirmed yesterday, comes just days after M&B was forced to announce a strategic review following a failed property plan resulting in a £274m after-tax hedging loss.

Read the full story here and here.

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