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JANUARY 3, 2024

billion (though the deal is under scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission for the creation of a sandwich monopoly). a share, below its 52-week high and at only a slight premium on its trading price. The post In the Restaurant Industry, Buyers Are Hungry for Acquisitions appeared first on FOCUS Investment Banking LLC.

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Peak Frameworks

MAY 2, 2024

If you're interested in breaking into finance, check out our Private Equity Course and Investment Banking Course , which help thousands of candidates land top jobs every year. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are key regulatory bodies overseeing these mergers.

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Focus Investment Banking

JULY 10, 2023

and Point S are members, both have their own annual trade shows and conferences that they prefer their managers attend. With a steady loss of membership, attendance at the NWTDA annual trade show became a break-even event, at best. Although Les Schwab Tire Centers Inc. Lately, COVID-19 prevented annual meetings from even happening.

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Focus Investment Banking

MAY 20, 2024

The role of a senior advisor at FOCUS Investing Banking is to provide strategic advice and guidance to clients on various financial transactions. It’s also important to attend workshops and trade shows like Photonics West. Lunches are great for that – food really gets people talking.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 1, 2023

The relationship between banks and their clients has shifted in recent years as the advancement of technology has encouraged a broader range of firms to become more autonomous with how they execute smaller trades and less risk averse with larger ones. Goldman Sachs’ equities revenues globally had fallen from $3.24

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

My parents started a collision repair equipment company back in 1988, ended up not joining the family business right out of school, but went the investment banking route and sometime into that the family business came calling. I grew up around the collision repair industry. So it’s an industry I love.

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Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 2, 2025

Last year in our annual food drive, that’s one that we’ve had for many years also, as we raised money for local food banks, that was the equivalent of providing 5 million meals to the communities that we live and work in. And so we like to make sure that our community impact efforts really, really keep that in mind.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 2, 2024

If you’re not familiar with it, the show follows several young graduates who start working in sales & trading and investment banking at JP Morgan Pierpoint & Co. She seems to be the standard nepotism hire who’s clueless on the job, which explains why she’s relegated to food delivery duties for her desk.

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MAY 12, 2025

Food & Beverage 1Q 2025 Report Overview In the first quarter of 2025, mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity showed a mixed picture. Food and beverage dealmaking slipped in Q1 compared to the previous quarter, down 11% with a total of 93 deals announced or closed. PE firms are also capitalizing on the trend.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2025

OVERVIEW The Food and Beverage industry capped off 2024 with a steady volume of M&A activity, with a total of 412 transactions. Food and Beverage businesses remain attractive to buyers thanks to the industrys stability, resiliency, and opportunities for innovation. The main takeaway of 2024? fertilizer, equipment, labor).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Being in your country’s top ~5% of earners will make a FAR bigger difference than fancy strategies, day trading, or finding the occasional meme coin that goes up by 100x. Active Trading: I do not recommend day trading unless it is your full-time job. Yes, you will spend more money on rent, food, vacations, etc.,

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Overcoming Marketplace Uncertainty Rising interest rates introduced a difficult environment for private equity recapitalizations (where private equity groups sell a portfolio company to another buyer), so few of the older PE-backed ophthalmology organizations traded hands over the last few years. The theme is not entirely new, however.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

FOCUS Food and Beverage Managing Directors Mike McCraw and Jim Sowers recently attended the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference , a top industry event that attracts restaurant owners, operators, and financial executives from across the U.S.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The growth of bilateral trading has caught the attention of many industry participants in the last year, spurring intense debate at many industry conferences. Its like fast food, it might feel good in the short term but there could be unintended consequences for the longer term health of the trading ecosystem.

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MARCH 17, 2025

So either are they coming out of a trade school or have they been. Put food on the table? Over the course of decades when we offshored a lot of the manufacturing in the US and we changed also there was a stigma associated with some of the trade schools and as there was a lot of marketing to oh, go get a four year degree, go get a four.

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MAY 29, 2023

in February 2023, restaurants and food and beverage companies still face a tight labor market and rising costs. Food, beverage, and restaurant companies have consistently raised prices, which creates a series of opportunities for companies operating in the F&B industry. Inflation peaked at 9.1%

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We ordered food recently. Obeyed the machine messiah and tried to deliver food to the empty lot. The AI acolytes might rave about the time savings they get from using AI, but do they think about the person on the other end of that trade? Instead of helping my business, the messaging now claimed the service could help my clients.

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MergersCorp M&A International

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Increased Foreign Investments Contrary to some expectations, Trump’s presidency saw an uptick in foreign direct investment (FDI). Although he often made headlines for his protectionist rhetoric, particularly in relation to China and trade deals, many countries continued to view the U.S.

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