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Mon 01 Jan 2005Superquinn taken over by retail consortium for €450 millionMr Feargal Quinn and his family will retain just a tiny holding in the Superquinn supermarket chain after it is sold to a group of investors for €450 million, write Una McCaffrey and Martin Wall.The deal is the second-largest retail takeover since Tesco's €800 million buyout of Quinnsworth in 1997.