<p>Lladró, the maker of porcelain figurines, is poised to being sold to a private equity fund after years of wranglings between the three brothers who set the company up in 1953.</p>
<p>The Madrid private equity fund, PHI Industrial Acquisitions, is close to finalising the deal, which is expected to go through in January after likely shareholder approval early in the month, according to a report in El Pais.</p>