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Whitbread targets 100 Balkan Costas
Whitbread has signed a 15-year franchise deal to launch 100 Costa Coffee outlets in the Balkans over the next five years.Under the agreement, Delta, the Serbian retail group, will open and operate stores in Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia.The first nine outlets under the agreement will open ...
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$3.5bn OSI buyout completed
The $3.5bn (£1.77bn) buyout of OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse, by an investment consortium including some of the firm’s management, its founders and two private equity groups, has been completed.The new owners of OSI include Bain Capital Partners, which has been an investor in Burger King ...
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OSI buyout gets shareholder approval
The proposed $3.2bn (£1.6bn) buyout of OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse, by an investment consortium including some of the firm’s management, its founders and two private equity groups, has finally received shareholder approval.Approval for the deal finally came after a special shareholder meeting, which had been ...