Nomura International's Principal Finance Group is buying First Quench from Punch Taverns and Whitbread for £225m.
The off-licence chain has about 2,500 outlets in the UK, trading as Wine Rack, Thresher, Victoria Wine and Bottoms Up.
Punch will use its
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