Buger King is owned by another corporation that has little to do with food. The current owners aquired it when it was tossed in to a buyout as a poison pill to discourage them from buying the other companies they were really after.
Kind of odd to think that Burger King would be a company just traded about like that. Turns out they are small time compared to their parent company. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Braver, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: OT: Fast Food mish-mash > ok kids, pop quiz: > > do you really know where your fast food profits go? > > you get a point if you knew that Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried > Chicken are all owned by the same company, Tri Con Global. > another point if you knew that Tri Con bought the 3 chains when they were > spun off by PepsiCo. > > another point if you know that this haute cuisine conglomerate is now buying > the Long John Silver's and A&W Root Beer chains. > > yet another point if you know their new corporate name - Yum! Inc. (matches > their ticker symbol). > > The whole point is "co-branding" - 2 brands under the same roof, e.g. Taco > Bell and Long John Silver's, so if the parents and the kids want different > food there can still be family peace. This is also faster and cheaper than > searching for another site and going through the permit approvals process. > > Gee, between YUM, McDonalds, and Burger King, there aren't many other > players anymore. > > (BTW extra credit if you knew that McDonalds owns Boston Market.) > > -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
