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Tragus is a UK limited company operating over 295 restaurants under the Café Rouge, Belgo, and Bella Italia brands. The company is backed by The Blackstone Group private equity firm. Tragus' head office is on Eversholt Street in central London and they have a training and menu development centre in Finchley, north London. ==History== Tragus Holdings was formed in 2002〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.caterersearch.com/Companies/33940/tragus-holdings.html )〕 when Whitbread sold-off 153 failing restaurants from its Pelican and BrightReasons divisions, shortly after writing their value down by £147m. At the time, the two restaurant divisions comprised the Café Rouge, Bella Pasta, Mamma Amalfi, Abbaye, Leadenhall Wine Bar and Oriel brands. A £25m〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/whitbread-sells-restaurant-groups-6299454.html )〕 management buy-in by Tragus Holdings was funded by £11m from venture capitalist speculators ECI group. Tragus Holdings was led by Chief Executive Finlay Scott, formerly head of the Aroma café chain and Whitecross Dental Care. The team included Gavin Williams, managing director of Bella Pasta, and Harry Morley, former finance director of Whitecross Dental Care. In January 2005, Tragus' directors sold the company to Legal & General Ventures for £90m-£95m.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/21/04/2005/56888/LGV-buys-Tragus-for-more-than-16390m.htm )〕 The sale made them around £18m profit. The chairman, discredited former LSE CEO Gavin Casey, received £2m. Legal & General Ventures installed a new management team which included appointing new Chief Executive Graham Turner (formerly Managing Director of the Unique Pub Company).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/01/07/2011/339055/Caterer-and-Hotelkeeper-100-Graham-Turner-Tragus.htm )〕 In December 2006, Tragus was bought by Blackstone Group for £267m. By that time, the business had grown to 163 restaurants. The group expanded rapidly in 2007 with the purchase of Ma Potters restaurant company in February for £14.15m,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Business/Tragus-buys-Ma-Potters-restaurant-company )〕 and the Strada chain in May - which included five Belgo and Bierodrome restaurants - for £140m, In July, Tragus signed a deal with Center Parcs to operate a number of restaurants in the leisure village operator's UK sites. In August 2007, they announced plans for a new restaurant concept - Huxley's Bar & Kitchen - to open in the new Heathrow Terminal 5 in March 2008, bringing the total number of restaurants to over 230. In April 2012 it was announced that Graham Turner would step down from the role of Chief Executive at Tragus. John Derkach, formerly managing director of the Costa Coffee chain took up the position in August 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.peach-report.com/Latest/1308007/costa_boss_derkach_moves_to_head_up_tragus.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tragus Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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