![]() ![]() In July 2003 the company acquired gourmet meal business Leaping Salmon to attempt exploit the natural links between food and wine. In March 2003 Terra Firma Capital Partners dispensed with the First Quench name and adopted Thresher Group as the overall company identity and trading name – First Quench Retailing Limited remained the legal name. Terra Firma Capital Partners purchased the company in April 2002. The company was purchased by the Japanese private equity firm Nomura Holdings in October 2000 for £225m. A wine-led division included their premium brand and high wine mix stores, with the 'drinks division' focussed around their convenience driven and drinks-led shops. ![]() The company's stores were split across several brand focussed trading divisions which were eventually reduced to two. The number of stores and employees were gradually reduced in the years following, although it remained the largest off-licence chain until the company's demise in 2009. Peter (Bottomfield) Dominic was separated from GrandMet's IDV group in 1989 to become a retail division.Īt time of the merger, the company employed around 20,000 people and claimed to account for around 13% of the take home drinks market – Tesco, in comparison, claimed around 14%. The Bottoms Up brand of shops, formerly owned by Peter Bottomfield Dominic, was retained. ![]() In November 1991, Threshers, then owned by Whitbread alone, had bought the Peter Bottomfield Dominic Group from Grand Metropolitan for £50m. Allied Domecq later sold their 50% of the company to Punch Taverns in September 1999. This brought together the 1,470 Thresher Wine Shop, Drinks Cabin, Wine Rack, "Bottoms Up" and Huttons brands with around 1,500 Victoria Wine, Wine Cellar, Haddows, Martha's Vineyard, and The Firkin. The company was originally formed as First Quench Retailing by the merger of the Whitbread owned Threshers and the Allied Domecq owned Victoria Wine in August 1998. Haddows branch in Port Glasgow during closing-down sale in late 2009. History Threshers branch in Petersfield in 2008. On 29 October 2009 it was announced that the company had gone into administration. Its head office was based in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. At the time of First Quench's closure, these included the Threshers, Haddows, The Local and Wine Rack chains. Former chain of off-licences in the UK First Quench Retailingġ998 (Merger of Threshers and Victoria Wine forming First Quench)įirst Quench Retailing was the largest independent off-licence retail chain in the UK, with around 3,500 shops operating under several retail brands, though all have now been closed. ![]()
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