More new businesses are coming to Davenport. Quad Cities company Russell Development has begun construction on a new 10,000 ...

With new owner Blackstone, Tropical Smoothie Cafe is confident it can speed up growth as a major national marketing push gets underway. Blackstone’s buy captures the Deal of the Year in the 13th ...

Other brands in Blackstone’s portfolio include Tropical Smoothie Café, 7Brew, Hilton Hotels and Servpro. When the planned acquisition was announced, Peter Wallace, a senior managing director at ...

A new Tropical Smoothie Cafe is planned for Parrish’s Creekside ... It’s grown to more than 1,400 locations in 44 states. Investment firm Blackstone purchased the restaurant franchise in ...

In the wake of its sale to private equity giant Blackstone for $2 billion last summer, Tropical Smoothie Café is restocking its leadership team, including promoting seven-year company veteran ...

In some cases, Blackstone appoints executive chairs to support first-time CEOs. Nigel Travis, former CEO of Dunkin' Brands, serves as chairman at both Servpro and Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

Blackstone said Tuesday that it agreed to buy a majority stake in Jersey ... in the past including Hilton Hotels, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, and 7Brew. Blackstone posted a video on LinkedIn showing ...

Bumble Inc. inked a deal for Blackstone to buy a majority stake in the dating ... For example, it closed its acquisition of Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a fast-growing chain that offers smoothies ...

Private equity firm Blackstone (BX) is beefing up its ... reached an agreement to acquire restaurant franchiser Tropical Smoothie Cafe. These investments and acquisitions come at a time when ...

AP In April, Blackstone agreed to buy Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a franchiser of fast casual restaurants, from PE firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. “Blackstone has deep experience helping ...

Blackstone (BX) has bought control of Jersey Mike’s Subs, in the latest move by the private equity giant to buy franchisors ... Atlanta-based Tropical Smoothie Cafe and coffee brand 7Brew.