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...Citadel Securities, which has commanding positions in US stocks, Treasuries and swaps trading, has been at the vanguard of a group of ultrafast firms that have stepped into sovereign debt markets as tougher...
...“Who wants to buy a subscale branch-based bank, even one with a fantastic customer franchise?”...
...Billionaire Rob Walton, heir to the Walmart retail fortune, acquired the NFL franchise for $4.6bn....
...As franchise owners are forced to overwork, the chains are turning to automation, including robot floor cleaners and screen avatars that are remotely operated....
...But also it will earn monthly fees from these automatons by lending them out to its franchise stores from April....
...A tie-up would combine Sony’s film franchises including Ghostbusters and Uncharted, with Paramount, which has had recent hits such as Mean Girls and Bob Marley: One Love....
...Below is a small representative group that, just on the numbers, caught my eye....
...The group was boosted by franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight films in the 2000s....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...According to the Japan Franchise Association, the country’s convenience stores were short of 172,000 workers in 2020 and the trade body forecasts a gap of 101,000 workers by 2025....
...SVB Financial bought the healthcare-focused advisory business for $280mn in 2019 as it tried to bolster its growing investment banking franchise....
...$450mn from Google and Spark Capital (FT) Wagamama owner suffers shareholder revolt over pay and appointments (FT) HSBC/SVB: franchise value matters as much to bank rescuers as assets (Lex)...
...“We don’t want to just have this massive safety, and convenience, and cost benefit in the US. We want to do that wherever people are travelling, which is everywhere on the planet.”...
...When Emanuel’s Endeavor Group first bought into UFC in 2016, the mixed martial arts series had an enterprise value, including debt, of $4.1bn....
...The coffee shop franchise has rapidly expanded its footprint in large cities over the past year....
...What the economics like right now are established companies with strong franchises....
...With thousands of stores in its franchise, it charges just Rmb5 for an Americano compared with Rmb30 at Starbucks....
...Particularly in the retail sector, the platform’s interests lie in homogenising offerings for convenience and comparison by the consumer....
...Opened in February 2022, it’s a collaboration between Trippa Milano and local restaurant group ZS Hospitality....
...Co-op, the UK’s biggest member-owned company, said it would use the money to develop its convenience outlets, as well as its wholesale, franchise and ecommerce operations....
...As recently as May, F45 announced a deal with Fortress Investment Group, an alternative asset manager, to provide $150mn in off-balance sheet financing that would have allowed franchisees to pay their start-up...
...And despite all being tech companies broadly speaking, the Faangs are quite a diverse group of companies....
...Aston Martin puts a new driver in the hot seat The hardest part of keeping the James Bond franchise alive is changing the lead....
...Hult has been the driving force behind many of Tradeweb’s most successful US businesses, including the mortgage and Treasury franchises....
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
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