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...Similarly, the UK’s Punch Taverns, zombified by a debt-funded acquisition spree, was beset by hedge funds. It broke itself up, and agreed to sell a large block of its pubs to Heineken....
...Mr Schnatter, the “Papa John” of the chain’s name, started the Kentucky-based company in 1984 in the back of his father’s tavern and built it into a global chain with 5,300 outlets....
...For our global readers unfamiliar with the American South, the Waffle House is a diner chain that functions like a medieval tavern: it sits at every crossroads and it is always open....
...In the American South, the Waffle House is a restaurant chain that functions like a medieval tavern: it sits at every crossroads and it is always open....
...John Schnatter started the Kentucky-based company in 1984 in the back of his father’s tavern and built it into the world’s third-largest pizza delivery group....
...Mr Schnatter, who started the Kentucky-based company in 1984 in the back of his father’s tavern and built it into the world’s third-largest pizza delivery group, and his affiliates hold 30 per cent of Papa...
...At the turn of the century, before any poulterers set up shop, 159 Grand seems to have been a tavern and bordello....
...Another solution — which could help Britain’s struggling taverns — could be setting up a bank branch inside the local boozer, said John Munnery, a retired banker....
...The company used to own the baseball team and is intrinsically linked to Chicago baseball folklore, whereby PK Wrigley refused a tavern owner’s goat entry to Wrigley Field in 1945 because of its stench,...
...Smart Reads Japan Inc gives Toshiba the cold shoulder The nearly 70-year-old invisible Japanese corporate support has baulked at bailing out one of its most famous industrial names, sending a chill across...
...Even dive bars and more conventional taverns can carry a vast range of beers....
...The case, codenamed Tabernula – Latin for “little tavern” – was the most high-profile and complex case of insider trading ever mounted by the markets watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority....
...PepsiCo Q1 $0.81 ($0.83) EARNINGS Goldman Sachs Q1 $2.45 ($5.94) Johnson & Johnson Q1 $1.66 ($1.56) Philip Morris Q1 $1.10 ($1.16) EARNINGS ARM Q1 8.06p (7.13p) Coca-Cola Q1 $0.44 ($0.48) Punch Taverns...
...In 2003, they reopened the chicken shop as a bar, the Redchurch, and went on to run a pub, The Marquess Tavern; both were later sold....
...Mr Meyer, along with Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe and Union Square Hospitality, will convert 6.4m class B shares into class A common stock....
...His restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern and the Modern, where the no tipping policy will roll out first, are New York landmarks. But it is Shake Shack that has taken Mr Meyer global....
...Attached to the pipes that sent beer up to the bar was spy equipment introduced by Punch Taverns, a company whose flotation I was covering....
...After PizzaExpress, Mr Osmond co-founded pub group Punch Taverns and life assurance vehicle Pearl, later known as Phoenix....
...You can judge a trapper by his pelts, and Carl’s got a lot of pelts.”...
...Last year, David Einhorn and his Greenlight Capital hedge fund were fined a combined £7.2m for selling Punch Taverns shares before the group’s 2009 rights issue....
...Roger Whiteside, chief executive of Punch Taverns and a former head of M&S’s food arm, has been poached to run the Greggs bakery chain....
...it is the appearance of Mr Einhorn – who last year tried to buy the New York Mets baseball team and in January was censured by the UK Financial Services Authority for market abuse over trading in Punch Taverns...
...Osborne was a managing director at Merrill Lynch, the brokers with the unenviable task in 2009 of trying to restore financial stability to the pub chain Punch Taverns, a confection of debt built on a sliver...
...PUNCH CEO: Dave — Dave — David, but we’re sorry, we’re – [etc] Einhorn had just been told about a Punch Taverns proposal to issue £350m of equity to meet looming payments on a convertible bond....
...Or, the UK’s FSA slaps a £7.2m fine on David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital over trading in Punch Taverns shares in 2009....
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