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Booker sells Arbor Acres for 68m

- 24 June 1999
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24 June 1999

Booker sells Arbor Acres for £68m


BOOKER has sold its Arbor Acres poultry breeding business to BC Partners for £68.3 million.

BC Partners, a private equity group, bought Ross Breeders, Hillsdowns chicken breeding business last December for just over £100m.

When the two businesses are amalgamated the group will have the largest poultry breeding business in the world.

Arbor Acres contributed £14.5m to the operating profits of Booker for the 65 weeks to March this year and has net assets of £27.2m.

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