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Geronimo snaps up six pubs from Punch

13.07.09

London pubs firm Geronimo is splashing out between Ł8 million and Ł9 million to acquire six pubs from embattled giant Punch Taverns.

The pubs are the Northcote in Clapham, the Prince Albert in Battersea, the Elgin in Ladbroke Grove, the Curtain's Up in West Kensington, the Clarence in Whitehall and the Ben Crouch in the West End.

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