Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to sell its tenanted pub business of 918 pubs to the Scottish and Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC) for £418m.
The business has been operated since 1999 by S&NPC under a management agreement. S&NPC is a subsidiary of Dutch brewer Heineken.
In the year ended 31 December 2010, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation generated under the terms of the management agreement was £45m. As at 31 December 2010, the business's combined gross asset value was £406m.
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The sale is part of RBS's strategy of selling its non-core assets to pay off UK tax payers who ended up owning over 80% of the bank following the financial crisis of 2008.
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