Article: Arthur Guinness and Sons PLC acquires Champneys Group of Cos.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur Guinness and Sons plc has acquired the Champneys Group of Companies.

The Champneys Group includes the health spas of Champneys at Tring and Champneys at Stobo Castle. The consideration was approximately 3 million pounds sterling.

The Champneys business will form part of a new health group to be established by Guinness.

Ernest Saunders, chief executive of Guinness, said today: "We are determined to concentrate our business on a select number of areas which will provide sustained growth for the future. We believe that Health and Fitness is one of these. Champneys provides the basis for a new group ...

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