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431:"Recommended Offer for Spirit Pub Company PLC ("Spirit") Greene King PLC ("Greene King") to be effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006"
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270:Greene King
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85:August 2011
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161:Net income
117:Key people
382:"History"
93:June 2015
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72:Industry
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