As a result of the deal, Femsa will get 20% of Heineken Group to become the company's second-largest shareholder and attain the right to appoint two nonexecutive directors.

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Thompson's last game for the club was their Heineken Cup group stage 17-8 defeat to Biarritz on 21 January.

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Evans, 34, hit out after the 41-0 loss to Clermont which saw the Scarlets end their Heineken Cup group pointless.

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He retained the chairmanship of Heineken's holding group until last November.

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The Blues fell into that category, having finished second in their group to eventual 2010 Heineken Cup winners Toulouse.

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The Miami bash begins a yearlong, multimillion-dollar campaign by Tepperberg's company, New York-based Strategic Group, to make Heineken hip among the club set.

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They benefited from a reorganisation of the second-tier tournament as second-placed group sides in the Heineken Cup who did not make the knock-out stages of the premier tournament were instead put into the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup.

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Toulouse, meanwhile, paraded their traditional galaxy of international stars as they targeted a fourth successive group victory in the quest for yet another Heineken Cup quarter-final appearance.

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But Ospreys captain Alun Wyn Jones is confident both that his side can become just the eighth Welsh team to win a Heineken Cup match in France and that they can progress through their murderous group.

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The Arms Park region, number one seeds in the Heineken Cup, topped English giants Leicester Tigers, Bath and Sale Sharks to qualify for Saturday's semi from Group B when the Blues will face Group D winners Northampton Saints at Coventry's Ricoh Arena.

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