Burger King Holdings Inc., the second largest hamburger restaurant chain in the United States plans to offer some of its shares to potential investors. In recent weeks, BK actively in talks with a number of financial firms.
According to Reuters news agency sources, one of the companies that are interested in buying shares with a market capitalization of U.S. $ 2.3 billion, the UK-based 3i. But both companies have not commented.
As a long-term strategy to increase revenue, BK will sell more than half the restaurants are owned directly by the company in three to five years into the future. The goal, reducing the amount of direct ownership of 10 percent to 5 percent.
Last week the sale of Burger King, which has 12 thousand branches in 75 countries, announced its global sales decline of 2.3 percent. While in 2009 the value of sales rose 1.2 percent. Sales in North America fell more in the world, at 3.9 percent.
While McDonald's tight competitors claim to have better global sales. McD sales in the second quarter rose 4.8 percent with sales in the United States increased by 3.7 percent.
For the fourth quarter that ended last June, BK net profit of U.S. $ 49 million or 36 cents per share seniali. Though the value of last year in the same period amounted to U.S. $ 58.9 million, with 43 cents per share. Revenue also dropped one percent to U.S. $ 623 million.
The 55-year-old company officially became a public company since May 2006. Diageo, the British company is the original owner before selling it to the Texas Pacific, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs in 2002 worth U.S. $ 1.5 million.
Source : REUTERS I GUARDIAN I MIAMI HERALD I RIEKA RAHADIANA - tempointeraktif
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