Daily Brief: First Applebee’s® Restaurant Opened in Panama – Dec 13, 2017

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• First Applebee’s® Restaurant Opened in Panama

  Markets.businessinsider.com / Panama – Tue Dec 12, 2017

  DineEquity, Inc. (NYSE:DIN), one of the world’s largest full service restaurant companies and the parent company of Applebee’s and IHOP® restaurants, has opened the first Applebee’s Grill + Bar on December 8 in Panama City, Panama. The restaurant is the first of five locations planned for Panama within the next five years.

• Jamaica Broilers Group Limited Unaudited 2nd Quarter Results for period ended October 28, 2017

  Jamaica Stock Exchange / Jamaica – Tue Dec 12, 2017

  Reveues up 11% in Q2 (to $11.5b from $10.4b in Q2 last year). Gross profit for the quarter also up 16% to $3 billion.

• Liberty Global Announces Record and Distribution Dates for Upcoming Split-Off of Latin American Division

  Digitaljournal.com / Caribbean – Tue Dec 12, 2017

  Liberty Global today announced that, in connection with the previously announced split-off of its subsidiary Liberty Latin America Ltd., which comprises Liberty Global’s operations in Latin America and the Caribbean that are currently attributed to its “LiLAC Group,” it has set a record date of 5:00 p.m. New York City time, on December 26, 2017 (the “Record Date”) and a distribution date of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 29, 2017 (the “Distribution Date”), for the distribution of Liberty Latin America common shares.

• St. Lucia is not a tax haven and will be off EU blacklist “very soon”

  St. Lucia News Online / St. Lucia – Tue Dec 12, 2017

  The St Lucia government says it will soon introduce new tax reform measures after the island was included among 17 countries worldwide on a new global list of tax havens by the European Union.