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...In 2010, led by 3G partners Schwartz and Alex Behring, 3G bought Burger King for $4.1bn, including debt....
...The transaction will see existing shareholders, including Swedish investment firm Valedo Partners, cash out....
...“We have probably had a bit of a hype cycle, with an awful lot of people trying things once or twice,” says Will Hayllar, global managing partner of OC&C Strategy Consultants....
...As hedging contracts expire and brands negotiate with retailers, that will change, said Will Hayllar, global managing partner at strategy consultants OC&C....
...Any profits would be split between the holding company and the LLC partners....
...The younger Mr Milken, 43, was a senior partner at Apollo in its core private equity business, which manages $72bn....
...The solution increasingly for some: flipping burgers in order to flip an asset later....
...A microbial food revolution Coming to a supermarket near you: a burger patty grown from the microbes found in hot volcanic springs....
...Activist fund Jana Partners is sinking its teeth into Jack in the Box, saying the US fast-food chain’s shares are “undervalued and represent an attractive investment opportunity.”...
...Simon Patterson, managing director at Silver Lake, described ZPG as a “great growth technology company”, adding that it was “delighted to partner” with Mr Chesterman....
...He is also a senior partner and co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants and a former board member of Nationwide Building Society....
...“This is the first time we’ve seen this in 50 years,” said Jim Brennan, partner at BCG, in an interview last month with Bernstein Research....
...These achievements have earned 3G the respect of investors and the fear of rivals. “3G has been a big wake-up call for the industry,” said Will Hayllar, partner at OC&C, a global consulting firm....
...and Canaan Partners....
...One KFC outlet in Shanghai sold spicy chicken burgers but not spicy drumsticks on Tuesday, while a KFC outlet in Beijing had pork burgers but no chicken....
...fashion seems to be heating up again, what with Blackstone taking a minority stake in Versace, Permira courting Cavalli, and, as of Tuesday, a new swain in town making its move on Opening Ceremony (that’s OC...
...Then came Burger King, the second-largest US burger chain by sales, in 2010. By then people were used to Lemann and his 3G buddies shopping in America....
...“People look at an organisational car crash and think ‘that couldn’t possibly happen here, we’re not in that sector or we are not like that’ – and then you discover horsemeat in your burgers.”...
...“People think they are more expensive than they really are,” says Guy-Noël Chatelin, partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants....
...Guy-Noël Chatelin, partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, which conducts annual retail price and image surveys, says: “Carrefour doesn’t benefit from the investment it has put in prices, in terms of customer...
...TPG, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Bain Capital bought Burger King for $1.5bn in 2002 from Diageo, the UK spirits group....
...TPG, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Bain Capital, bought Burger King for $1.5bn in 2002 from Diageo, the UK spirits group, and took it public in 2006....
...As far back as 2002, a group including Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs and TPG bought Burger King from Diageo, the drinks conglomerate, using a loan from Diageo at a below-market 1.7 per cent interest rate....
...It is one of the private equity backers of Burger King, together with Texas Pacific and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. Bain also owns a large stake in Domino’s Pizza....
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