CIHL Continues as Investment Vehicle
On 19 January 2016 Cooks Global Foods Limited (CGF) completed a transaction where CGF raised $9 million of capital and its largest shareholder at the time (DSL Management Limited (DSL) sold down its shares in CGF (Transaction). As part of the Transaction an investment vehicle was created under the name of Cooks Investment Holdings Limited (CIHL).
CIHL is led by CGF’s executive chairman Keith Jackson. The other investors in CIHL comprise a number of senior managers of CGF, Esquires Coffee House franchisees and certain other strategic investors including existing shareholder Yunnan Metropolitan Construction Investment Group Co Limited (YMCI).