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Daily Brief ECM: Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Pre-IPO – The Negatives – Flagship Brand Still Struggling and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Pre-IPO – The Negatives – Flagship Brand Still Struggling
  • Betagro Pre-IPO Peer Comparison – Margins Historically Weaker than Peers, but Playing Catch Up
  • ECM Weekly (9th Oct 2022) – CALB, Socionext, Betagro, Country Style, I-Tail, Lionheart, Kakao Pay

Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Pre-IPO – The Negatives – Flagship Brand Still Struggling

By Ethan Aw

  • Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain (1985552D HK) is looking to raise about US$200m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.
  • Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain (CSCRC) is a Chinese quick service restaurant (QSR) chain situated in China. It operates two brands, namely: CSC and Rice Space, which are all self-operated. 
  • In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Betagro Pre-IPO Peer Comparison – Margins Historically Weaker than Peers, but Playing Catch Up

By Clarence Chu

  • Betagro (BTG TB) is looking to raise about US$460m in its Thailand IPO.  
  • Betagro is an integrated agro-industrial and food business in Thailand. 
  • Betagro identified three Thailand-listed companies which we included in our peer comparison exercise to determine how it has fared against its direct peers. 

ECM Weekly (9th Oct 2022) – CALB, Socionext, Betagro, Country Style, I-Tail, Lionheart, Kakao Pay

By Sumeet Singh

  • Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
  • On the IPO front, HK IPOs continued to struggle with CALB (3931 HK) joining Leapmotor (9863 HK) and Onewo (2602 HK) with its tepid performance.
  • Given the mid-week HK holiday and the ongoing golden week, there weren’t any large placements this week.

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