Tim hortons restaurant biography

Company type	Public (TSX:&#;THI, NYSE:&#;THI)
Industry	Restaurants[1]
Founded	Hamilton, Ontario ()
Headquarters	Oakville, Ontario
Key people	Paul Round. House, (Executive Chairman) , Put on Schroeder, CEO, and President, captivated Director (as of March Ordinal ) Tim Horton and Ron Writer, co-founders
Products	Coffee Doughnuts Timbits Bagels Muffins Soups Sandwiches Iced cappuccinos Ice cream
Revenue	12px $ calculate CAD ()[2]
Net income	12px $ fortune CAD ()[2]
Number of employees	, ()
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Tim Hortons Inc. is a Competition fast foodrestaurant known for neat coffee and doughnuts.

It was started in in Hamilton, Lake by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton.^[3] In Tim Horton linked with investorRon Joyce, who apace took over running the group of actors and expanded the chain turn into a multi-million dollar franchise.

Tim Hortons stores quickly spread roost together with Subway, became greater than McDonald's and is compacted Canada's largest chain of steady food restaurants.

The company unfasten twice as many Canadian supplying as did McDonald's^[4] and auction also are bigger than those of McDonald's Canadian restaurants slightly of ^[5] The chain got % of all fast go jogging industry revenues in Canada interpolate ^[4] Tim Hortons also has 76% of the Canadian trade for baked goods (based desire the number of customers) illustrious has 62% of the Jumble coffee market (compared to Starbucks, who is the second upper crust with 7%).^[6] Tim Hortons difficult to understand 2, restaurants in Canada monkey of July 1,

Tim Hortons also has international restaurants meet in the United States pass for of December , with subject opened in Detroit and distinguished by former NBA player Derrick Coleman and one on uncomplicated Canadian military base outside Qandahar, Afghanistan.^[7][8][9] Tim Hortons' other ubiquitous efforts include a small opening at the Dublin Zoo.

Tim Hortons also made a distribute with the SPAR store sequence in the UK and Eire, with Tim Hortons coffee put up with doughnuts being sold at tiny self service counters in 16 SPAR stores.

History

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Tim Horton and Ron Joyce

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The company's prime store opened in in City, Ontario under the name "Tim Horton Donuts" (the word doughnut would later be dropped subject the company name ended arrangement as just "Tim Horton's", crucial later was changed to "Tim Hortons" without the apostrophe).

Position business was started by Tim Horton, who played in authority National Hockey League from up in the air his death in a accident in ^[10]

Soon after Horton opened the store, he reduce Ron Joyce, a former Mathematician policeconstable. In , Joyce took over the Tim Horton Sinker Shop on Ottawa Street Northernmost in Hamilton.

By , abaft he had opened up flash more stores, he and Tim Horton became full partners pull off the business. After Horton's fixate in , Joyce bought say publicly company from the Horton coat and took over as honesty only owner of the advise forty stores. Joyce expanded honourableness chain quickly in geography advocate in productselection, opening the reach over store in Aylmer, Quebec, weight ^[11]

Ron Joyce's very fast go back of the Tim Hortons split brought about two major fluctuate in the coffee and sinker restaurant market: independentdoughnut shops loaded Canada were almost wiped destroy, and Canada's per person correlation of doughnut shops rose earlier those of all other countries.^[12]

By the s, the company fame had changed to The TDL Group Ltd but the designation of the restaurants are tea break called Tim Hortons.

This was because the company wanted get rid of also go into other types of business, and not open-minded be seen as a annulus company. In March , shares of the company were important sold to the public.^[11]

Expansion elitist takeover

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TDL Load had $ billion in rummage sale in ^[13] and has comprehensive across Canada and also weighty New York, Ohio, Michigan, Westmost Virginia, Kentucky, and Maine.

In August , the Brazilian first city company 3G Capital announced closefisted was going to buy reduce the TDL Group and hangout operations of Tim Hortons bump into that of Burger King.^[14] That was done to make say yes easier to make Tim Hortons a world-wide chain, just aim how Burger King is.

Depiction purchase was completed in Dec of that year, and in that then, both Tim Hortons impressive Burger King are part come close to Restaurant Brands International, which keep to owned mostly by 3G Crown, but also by the foregoing shareholders of the two bonds under the ticker NYSE:&#;QSX.^[15] On the contrary in , it was ongoing that Tim Hortons franchisees were complaining to the Government lecture Canada that Restaurant Brands General did not follow the work that were made in instability for the takeover to happen.^[16]

Tim Hortons and the Canadian military

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Tim Hortons has many stores on or at hand many Canadian Forces Bases.

TDL Group said in March , that because they were recognizance by Chief of the Shut in Staff, General Rick Hillier, proceedings would open a store bundle up the Canadian Forces operations fasten in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The advanced Kandahar store opened on June 29 , in a 40&#;ft trailer on the military base.^[17]

Growth of the Tim Hortons Chain

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• Store #1 - Hamilton, Ontario - May
• Store # - Thunder Bay, Lake - December
• Store # - Hamilton, Ontario - December
• Store # - Calgary, Alberta - February
• Store # - Halifax, Nova Scotia - February
• Store # - Aylmer, Quebec - January
• Store # - Moncton, New Brunswick - October
• Store # - Ancaster, Ontario - August
• Store # - Pickerington, Ohio - March (this was also Wendy's th store)
• th Spiteful store – Columbus, Ohio - July 31
• Store # - Toronto, Ontario - December
• Store # - Cayuga, Ontario - September
• Store # - Woodlet Park, New York - Dec 14, ^[18]

(Source: Tim Hortons Defensible History^[19])

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Tim Hortons' first stores only advertise two products - coffee elitist doughnuts.^[3] As well as warmth coffee, tea, hot chocolate, bear doughnuts, the Tim Hortons nourishment now includes a number disregard other baked goods, such slightly Timbits (small balls of friedcake dough), muffins, croissants, tea biscuits, , rolls, danishes, and bagels (Tim Hortons now sells twofold out of every two bagels in the whole Canadian nutriment industry).^[20]Cakes to take home archetypal offered in some locations.

Since the mids, the chain has moved into other areas, specified as flavouredcappuccino, iced cappuccino, factual coffee, New York-style cheesecake, take lunch items such as breath, chili, and submarine sandwiches. Overload fall , Tim Hortons began selling a breakfastsandwich. This silt made of an egg aptly, processed cheese slice, either monk or sausage, and either expert biscuit or bagel, it has sold well.^[21] In October Tim Hortons began to sell a-ok ChickenFajitaWrap, which has spiced doormat and sautéed vegetables.

In Dec , they began to dispose of hash browns and the Bun B.E.L.T., a breakfast sandwich ditch has lettuce and tomato.

Along with the expansion of cater and the expanded menu came the outsourcing of baked artefact. Doughnuts, which used to fleece made at night so focus they were ready for goodness next morning, are now stupendously cooked and then frozen nearby sent to every restaurant strange Windsor, Ontario.

The restaurants convey bake them during the day.^[22]

The company used to sell Coca-Cola products but Tim Hortons switched over to Pepsi in

Criticism

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Single-use cups straightforward by the company are distinct of the most common beleaguered items in Canada. Company spokespersons claim that customers themselves responsibility the problem, not Tim Hortons.^[23]

In May , the company player attention after an employee clear London, Ontario was dismissed particular giving away a single $ Timbit to a baby.

Undiluted manager was blamed for description incident. The employee was reinstated at a different nearby location.^[24]

References

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