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...million national ad campaign ("America runs on Dunkin'") are part of a carefully orchestrated plan to spiff up the brand with an eye toward taking the company public. A year from now, "we'll sit down and say, Is the company at this point geared for a reasonable IPO?," says Carlyle Group co-founder Dan D'Aniello. Carlyle, together with Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take...
...subscribe to mobile TV and video services. MobiTV raised $100 million last quarter with the help of partners, including Hearst and Adobe. That will allow it to forestall the strictures of a public company. But as Alvelda focuses on growth, he also awaits the right moment to launch an IPO...
...expecting to meet a bunch of Richie Rich types just looking for a thrill ride. Instead, I found a group of hardy pioneers, millionaires sure, but idealists who dreamed as kids of going into space. Mark, for instance, grew up during the Apollo years, but got rich from an IPO of his software-mapping firm. Now he's back to his first love. "It's not the thrill of acceleration for me," he says. "It's the experience of looking down to see the Earth, the experience of zero gravity. It would be crazy...
...Given the success of Charterhouse's buyout, there's speculation that Saga may soon go public. The company declines to discuss whether an IPO is in the works, but, according to one insurance industry analyst at a London investment bank, investors would likely welcome a flotation because of Saga's strong brand and impressive track record. And given that nearly half the U.K.'s adult population will be 50 or older by 2020, it's not about to run out of potential customers anytime soon...
...frenzy for initial public stock offerings. As investor demand for Chinese stocks has increased, so has the list of mainland companies eager to cash in on the mania by going public. In 2006, Chinese firms raised more than $53 billion in the Hong Kong and Shanghai markets through IPOs and secondary share offerings, up from $24 billion the year before. Among them was the largest IPO in history, November's $22 billion listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai by the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Despite the fact that Chinese banks are known for their lack of transparency...