Fridman's L1 Retail to buy Holland & Barrett for 1.8 billion pounds - source

(Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's fund L1 Retail has agreed to buy health food chain Holland & Barrett for about 1.8 billion pounds, according to a source familiar with the matter. L1 Retail will take control of the chain from its private equity owners Carlyle Group . The deal was first reported by the Financial Times. Carlyle Group bought Nature's Bounty, the owner of Holland & Barrett, in 2010 for $3.8 billion (£3 billion). L1 Retail, Holland & Barrett, Carlyle Group and Nature's Bounty were not immediately available to comment. (Reporting by Pamela Barbaglia and Parikshit Mishra; Editing by Bill Rigby)