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Sunday June 11th, 2006 |
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Perkins, Marie Callender's Complete Combination
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The Restaurant Company (TRC), operator and franchisor of a national chain of family restaurants under the Perkins Restaurant & Bakery name, and Marie Callender's, a chain of casual dining restaurants best known for freshly baked pies, announced today that their previously reported combination has been completed. |
TRC also announced that Allen Bernstein, the former chief executive of Morton's Restaurant Group (NYSE:MRT) , has been named chairman of TRC Holdings LLC, the parent of the new combined companies. All three companies are portfolio companies of Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York-based private equity investment firm.
The combination of TRC and Marie Callender's involved a stock-for-stock exchange, TRC said, with the total value of the transaction approximately $440 million. TRC repaid Marie Callender's debt with a new $100 million facility secured by substantially all of the assets of the combined businesses. It also increased its existing revolving credit line from $25 million to $40 million.
Joseph Trungale, president and chief executive officer of TRC, has been named president and CEO of the combined company, and Phillip Ratner, president and CEO of Marie Callender's, will continue to run that part of the business.
TRC is based in Memphis and has 480 company-owned and franchised restaurants in 33 states and five provinces of Canada. It was acquired by Castle Harlan last September.
Marie Callender's is based in Aliso Viejo, California, and has 138 restaurants in 10 states, primarily in the West and Southwest. Castle Harlan purchased it in 1999.
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