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Pizza Express ready for return to stock market

October 21, 2005

The Business-Telegraph: When a pair private equity firms bought Pizza Express off the public market two years ago, they paid £280 million (U.S. $495 million) for the 300-unit company. Since then, the Zizzi pizza brand was added to the mix, which pushed unit counts to nearly 500 and bumped up the company's overall value significantly. When the company returns to the stock market within the next several days, its value is estimated to be £800 million (U.S. $1.4 billion).

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