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...SH Fund, LP . . . Curated [chef recommends] . . . Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...But the question we raised is does franchising success ultimately rely on two of America’s most acute pathologies: excessive leverage and exploiting cheap labour?...
...private equity firm and Accor shareholder, had been pressing the group to go faster in its embrace of an asset-lite model, in which hoteliers sell off properties and concentrate on their management and franchising...
...The company acknowledges that if its new investments are not getting results within a year to 18 months, it will look to joint ventures, re-franchising of bottlers or even disposals....
...We think Dragon’s fair value is at least 450p/sh, while were IOCs and national oil companies (NOCs) to bid for Dragon, we think the price could potentially be as high as 700p/sh, based on our unrisked NAV...
...But he also cautioned that the “defeat” in Texas did not mean the end of state-wide franchising....
...London & Boston Investments climbed 46 per cent to 7.12p, as it announced plans to float its private property search subsidiary PSG (Franchising) at £15 to £18m....
...The group has been selling hotels for several months as it moves to a business model based on hotel management and franchising rather than asset ownership....
...We will go short but only on the basis of fundamentals," sh e says....
...observer@ft.com ~ SU:SII2PSI SH::SEDWIN2PSI:P2:Kusobaug6 QQ:/FT Content/Coyote QR:SULLIVAN QS:050804-190238 QT: ~ Goldman's vertical integration planHank Paulson runs a tight ship at Goldman Sachs....
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