Around 600 jobs at the troubled UK supermarket chain Kwik Save were saved tonight with an £18m (€26.5m) deal to sell the remaining stores to new owners.
Administrators KPMG concluded a deal to sell the 56 branches to FreshXpress, which is believed to be backed by Irish entrepreneur Brendan Murtagh.
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