Whitbread owns Premier Inn hotels, Brewers Fayre pubs, Table Table pubs and Beefeater restaurants.
Michael Iuul, Carlsberg's chief of international operations, argues that Interbrew overpaid for Whitbread and Bass.
Other competitors include the Luigi Lavazza run Barista Lavazza chain and Whitbread operated Costa Coffee stores.
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Whitbread, with over 10, 000 pubs, restaurants and health clubs, will become Britain's leading leisure company.
When the Whitbread, Bass and Kronenberg opportunities arose, Lindelov bid, but he lost to his bigger competitors.
The verses are also in the running to win the Whitbread poetry prize, to be announced on Wednesday.
World leaders attending that summit must "face this crisis and tackle the scourge of malnutrition for good", said Ms Whitbread.
Jens Berthel Askou did not make the trip while defender Zak Whitbread tweaked a calf muscle during the pre-match work-out.
Whitbread has signed a lease with Northampton Borough Council to build a 104-bedroom Premier Inn and restaurant at Albion Place.
Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban is also nominated for the Whitbread Prize, to be announced in the new year.
The judging panel includes Paul Farley, who won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1998 and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2002.
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Interbrew is widely expected to close three of the 10 Bass and Whitbread breweries, potentially resulting in thousands of job losses.
Northern Ireland poet Seamus Heaney has pipped children's hero Harry Potter to win his second Whitbread Book of the Year award.
The FSA also said that late last month a burger from hotel chain Whitbread had tested positive for horse DNA above 1%.
Whitbread bought the brewery in 1965, but closed it three years later.
Mr Almond has twice won the Whitbread Children's Book award and has written novels such as Skellig and My Dad's A Birdman.
But these lasagnes had only been supplied to one customer, Whitbread, and the product is therefore unlikely to be in school canteens.
In the poetry category, John Burnside's win comes after a prolonged period in which poets Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney dominated the Whitbread awards.
Nomura is also bidding for another 3, 000 pubs owned by Whitbread.
The emotional occasion took the limelight away from the day's feature race, which Gifford had won (when it was known as the Whitbread) in 1982 with Shady Deal.
But Whitbread, which supplies thousands of pubs and owns Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, has confirmed two of its products have been found to contain horsemeat.
The Costa Coffee chain, part of Whitbread which also owns Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn, wants to open a shop in an empty Victorian building in King Street.
The chain is part of Whitbread, which also owns Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn, and wants to open a shop in an empty Victorian building in King Street.
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Subsequent rounds of testing revealed adulteration in some products sold by Asda, Sodexo - which supplies food to schools, care homes and the armed forces - and the Whitbread Group.
And Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, says it found horse DNA in two products - burgers supplied by food supplier Paragon Quality Foods and lasagne from Brakes Brothers.
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The New Zealand skipper Grant Dalton has sailed the Monaco-based boat Merit Cup into Auckland taking the winning gun in the fourth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
It is then on to the relative tranquillity of Epping Forest, where Chris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said riders could enjoy "many historic gems" before heading to the capital.
Ten years ago the only large yachts capable of such speeds were Whitbread round-the-world racers crewed by 12 burly sailors and even then only while surfing down a giant wave in a gale.
"Poor nutrition is driving a literacy and numeracy crisis in developing countries, and is also a huge barrier to further progress in tackling child deaths, " said Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children International's Chief Executive.
As a relatively unknown author this award will give her exposure to a wider and mass audience that she may not have reached and is a perfect example of the influence of the Whitbread.
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