{"id":1498666,"date":"2025-12-19T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/burger-king-uk-agrees-major-cash-injection-and-extends-master-franchise-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:06:11","slug":"burger-king-uk-agrees-major-cash-injection-and-extends-master-franchise-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/burger-king-uk-agrees-major-cash-injection-and-extends-master-franchise-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King UK agrees major cash injection and extends Master Franchise Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The private equity firm Bridgepoint is reported to have agreed a new funding package with Burger King UK worth up to \u00a335m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridgepoint became the master franchisee<\/a> for Burger King UK in late 2017 <\/strong>and bought a portfolio of 66 restaurants<\/strong> from a leading franchisee with a view to growing the brand\u2019s UK footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky News<\/em> reports that Bridgepoint has recently injected a further \u00a315m into the burger chain<\/strong>, with a further sum of around \u00a320m to be made available in the next 18 months.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The new funding has been committed as Burger King UK extends its Master Franchise Agreement to 2044<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burger King has around 574 outlets in the UK<\/strong>, a mix of company-owned and franchisee locations. While some of its high street restaurants have closed in recent years, it is looking to expand, particularly in areas such as motorway service stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month it announced plans to open 30 new restaurants a year <\/strong>from 2026. It said trading in 2025 had remained \u201crobust\u201d, with revenues up by 7% to \u00a3408.3m on 2024 <\/strong>despite uncertain financial headwinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law firm Travers Smith LLP <\/strong>has been advising Burger King UK on its new financing arrangements and the extension of its Master Franchise Agreement, having acted for it since its entry into the original Master Franchise Agreement in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The private equity firm Bridgepoint is reported to have agreed a new funding package with Burger King UK worth up to \u00a335m. Bridgepoint became the master franchisee for Burger King UK in late 2017 and bought a portfolio of 66 restaurants from a leading franchisee with a view to growing the brand\u2019s UK footprint. Sky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":1498683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Burger King UK agrees major cash injection","_seopress_titles_desc":"Bridgepoint became the master franchisee for Burger King UK in late 2017 and bought a portfolio of 66 restaurants from a leading franchisee with a view to growing the brand\u2019s UK footprint.","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"192738,75893,78282,81609,1492501,84444","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[],"type-de-post":[2066],"class_list":{"0":"post-1498666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-franchise-news","8":"type-de-post-articles-actualite"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498666"},{"taxonomy":"type-de-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-de-post?post=1498666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}