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In July 2003 the company acquired gourmet meal business
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At time of the merger, the company employed around 20,000 people and claimed to account for around 13% of the take home drinks market – Tesco, in comparison, claimed around 14%. The number of stores and employees were gradually reduced in the years following, although it remained the largest
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The company's stores were split across several brand focussed trading divisions which were eventually reduced to two. A wine-led division included their premium brand and high wine mix stores, with the 'drinks division' focussed around their convenience driven and drinks-led shops.
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On 29 October 2009 it was announced that First Quench
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The brand names
Thresher's, The Local, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine were subsequently purchased by Midlands-based newsagent, off-licence and convenience store operator Dave's Discount Group. The Wine Rack brand was purchased by
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brand of shops, formerly owned by Peter
Bottomfield Dominic, was retained. Peter (Bottomfield) Dominic was separated from GrandMet's IDV group in 1989 to become a retail division.
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retail chain in the UK, with around 3,500 shops operating under several retail brands, though all have now been closed. At the time of First Quench's closure, these included the
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dispensed with the First Quench name and adopted
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801:Wine retailers of the United Kingdom
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538:5 February
397:References
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199:The Firkin
710:Threshers
690:Pizza Hut
658:Berni Inn
642:Touchbase
360:Threshers
341:Wine Rack
179:Wine Rack
163:Whitbread
116:Wine Rack
112:The Local
104:Threshers
71:, England
759:Category
700:Taybarns
685:Hogshead
380:See also
372:Hutton's
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145:in 2008.
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191:Haddows
183:Huttons
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84:Website
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39:Private
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