Smoking ban not reason for sell-off, says UK pub giant

The UK's biggest pubs company, Punch Taverns, today sold a collection of 869 pubs to rival Admiral Taverns.

Smoking ban not reason for sell-off, says UK pub giant

The UK's biggest pubs company, Punch Taverns, today sold a collection of 869 pubs to rival Admiral Taverns.

A spokeswoman for the Staffordshire-based company said the move was not driven by the forthcoming smoking ban in England - recently introduced in Wales - but was a strategic move as it looked to increase the overall quality of its estate.

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