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06/2016

PEACE DINING CORP acquired by HANA GROUP

UNITED STATES Food Processing / Food Products REV 100M - 200M USD

Context

Hana Group, backed by its institutional financial sponsor TA Associates, has completed the strategic cross-border acquisition of Peace Dining Corp from its founder, Josh Onishi. Peace Dining Corp operates as a pioneer in the North American and British grocery retail concession markets, managing an extensive network of roughly 200 Asian culinary kiosks across high-end grocery chains, notably Whole Foods Market, under the Genji, Mai, and Wok Street Kitchen brands, alongside a dedicated B2B catering division. Under the transaction terms, Josh Onishi will maintain continuity of localized operations, retaining his leadership role as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Peace Dining Corp within the United States. The investment thesis centers on immediate operational scale-up, global market consolidation, and cost-efficient geographic expansion into highly mature international territories. By integrating Peace Dining Corp, Hana Group expands its consolidated footprint to 380 corporate-owned points of entry across seven countries—including France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal—while inheriting an established nationwide logistics platform in the United States. This infrastructure bypasses the need for multi-million euro greenfield logistics capital expenditures, immediately doubling the group's global revenue base and positioning the unified platform to leverage cross-border commercial synergies, accelerate its monthly opening cadence, and solidify its market leadership in the global grocery-retail food concession segment.

PEACE DINING CORP, which reported an EBITDA margin of in 2015, is valued in this transaction at an EV/EBITDA multiple of , a level to compare with the average currently observed in the AgriFood sector (11.0x).

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Target

Peace Dining Corp operates as a highly specialized outsourced food concession platform embedded within the premium grocery retail ecosystem in the United States and the United Kingdom. Positioned at the intersection of high-frequency retail footfall and convenient premium dining, the company monetizes non-traditional food service spaces under the Genji, Mai, and Wok Street Kitchen brands. Its fundamental operational mechanism relies on a shop-in-shop framework, predominantly situated within Whole Foods Market locations. By utilizing the existing real estate footprint and consumer traffic generated by tier-one grocery anchors, the business insulates itself from the customer acquisition costs and long-term lease liabilities typically associated with standard street-front restaurant concepts.

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Revenue range: 100M - 200M USD

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Acquirer: hana group