The Danish firm's distributor, Interbrew, distributes its own competing Stella Artois brand.

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The firm will be the exclusive distributor of the Barclays Premier League TV rights, mobile and digital media for the territories of Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Chad, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Egypt and Djibouti.

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The Edinburgh firm is best known as a newspaper distributor.

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Not bad for a firm that, Credit Suisse notes, was a small telecoms-equipment distributor a few months ago.

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First Pacific recently sold its 65% interest in Hong Kong cellular phone firm Pacific Link, and is looking for buyers for its entire 40% shareholding in Amsterdam-based distributor Hagemeyer.

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