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Behring: 3G Capital Generated 28x Return and 30% IRR on RBI
“We had this big returns in companies like RBI and where I think we made 28 times the original billion plus capital we put in, and we had a 30% IRR in 14 years and all, and things like that”
Behring: 3G returned 130% of capital on Burger King IPO while keeping 70%
“We ended up going public in 2012, year and a half into this, mid-twelve, and this was a late 2010 closing, and between the dividend that was paid and the proceeds of selling quarter of the business or whatever that was, we returned a 130% of capital, give or t…”
Behring: Popeyes sales tripled after seven years under RBI ownership
“Then you fast forward to today on a company three times as big in sales than what we bought. And again, a function of fast international and domestic expansion or restaurant count and basically launching A boneless product, which is a chicken sandwich.”
Behring: Franchised Fast Food Is Non-Cyclical and Grew EBITDA in 2008 Crisis
“Incidentally, that's one of the things that's so great about this fully franchised quick service restaurant businesses, which is they're really not cyclical at all. Meaning on downturns, people trade down, look at what happened to the EBITDA of McDonald's or B…”
Behring: 3G founders have held AB InBev for 35 years and RBI for 14
“My co-founders have been investors of AB InBev now coming on 35 years. We investors in RBI for 14 years now and counting.”
Behring: 80% of RBI leadership was developed internally
“You can see the result of that in a company like RBI, where today, 80% of the leadership team is people that are grown into the company.”