Slug and Lettuce owner to buy pub chain Ei in $3.7 billion deal <!-- no image --> <div>Slug and Lettuce owner Stonegate Pub Company on Thursday offered to buy Ei Group in a deal that values the pub operator at 2.97 billion pounds ($3.70 billion) including debt.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=I8GQXMJe3p0:pOnwWeOJbh4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=I8GQXMJe3p0:pOnwWeOJbh4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=I8GQXMJe3p0:pOnwWeOJbh4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=I8GQXMJe3p0:pOnwWeOJbh4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=I8GQXMJe3p0:pOnwWeOJbh4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/I8GQXMJe3p0" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters