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March 15, 2011 and for more than 72 hours lawyers and specialist advisers were locked in negotiations in central London to sell Great Yarmouth-based J&H Bunn to American firm Koch Fertiliser, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the world’s largest private company, as talks were reaching their endpoint.