Minor DKL is a leading Australian retail food franchisor and is the intellectual property owner of The Coffee Club, Ribs & Ru ... mps Restaurants, The Groove Train and Coffee Hit franchise systems with a combined 450 restaurants in 11 countries, employing more than 8,000 staff and annual turnover exceeding $550 million. Minor DKL also is an owner of Veneziano Coffee Roasters, a leading speciality coffee roaster supplying in excess of 1,500 tonnes of roasted coffee annually to wholesale and retail customers throughout Australia from roasting facilities in Melbourne and Brisbane. Minor DKL’s controlling interest in The Groove Train, Coffee Hit and Veneziano Coffee Roasters is via Melbourne-based, VGC Food Group, which is operated in partnership with the founders of those businesses. Minor DKL is the Australian subsidiary of Thai-listed Minor International PCL (MINT). MINT is a global company focused on three primary businesses including restaurants, hotels and lifestyle brands distribution. MINT is one of Asia's largest restaurant companies with over 1,700 outlets operating system-wide in over 20 countries under The Pizza Company, Swensen's, Sizzler, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Thai Express, The Coffee Club, Ribs and Rumps, BreadTalk (Thailand) and Riverside brands. MINT is also a hotel owner, operator and investor with a portfolio of 134 hotels and serviced suites under the Anantara, AVANI, Oaks, Per AQUUM, Tivoli, Elewana, Marriott, Four Seasons, St. Regis, Radisson Blu and Minor International brands in 22 countries across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe and South America. MINT is one of Thailand's largest distributors of lifestyle brands focusing primarily on fashion, cosmetics and contract manufacturing. Its brands include Gap, Banana Republic, Esprit, Bossini, Charles & Keith, Pedro, Red Earth, Tumi, Zwilling J.A. Henckels, ETL Learning and Mysale. For more information, please visit www.minorinternational.com. read more