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BIL wins control of Thistle in 16 hours

BIL International, the Singapore holding group, collected commitments for the 5% of Thistle Hotels it needed to take control of the UK hotel operator within 16 hours of raising the value of its bid to £627m (€900m).

The Singapore group upped its offer for Thistle from 115p a share to 130p a share at 16:13 GMT on Wednesday, and by 07:56 GMT Thursday had received acceptances representing 6.8% of the target.

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