1. Details of a deal with leisure wear company Cotton Traders will be announced shortly. 2. Analysts said a renewed bombing campaign could affect any leisure companies, such as hoteliers, restaurants and pub chains, with a concentration of business in the capital. 3. Analysts named Whitbread Plc, a U.K. brewer and leisure company, and Greenalls Group Plc, a U.K. pub operator and hotel company, as possible suitors. 4. And, like other leisure companies, Rank said its Top Rank bingo clubs are still being hurt by competition from the National Lottery. 5. David Lloyd will continue as chairman of the leisure company. 6. Granada Group Plc, a U.K. leisure company, said it will sell the newly acquired White Hart Hotels after Regal Hotels Group Plc made a better offer. 7. He said, however, that he expects Whitbread Plc, a U.K. leisure company, to be among the suitors for the motorway stations. 8. His new firm, Inspirations Inc., will provide consulting services to entertainment, sports and leisure companies, Disney said. 9. Industries most likely to be hurt, he said, are chemical companies, lodging and leisure companies, retailers and clothing makers, the transportation sector and telecommunications. 10. Meantime, another British leisure company has already announced its own plans to get a toehold in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. |
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