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The founding strategy for Inspire Brands was to acquire successful but subscale restaurant concepts and combine them to share common technology and capability platforms.
Almost all of Dunkin's current growth is being driven by its iced beverage category.
At Inspire Brands, functions that define a brand to customers, such as culinary, marketing, and franchise operations, remain at the brand level and are not centralized.
For the past several years, Inspire Brands has based senior leadership incentives on the overall portfolio's performance rather than individual brand results to encourage integration.
Inspire Brands is shifting its marketing budget away from linear television and towards social media and influencer marketing, a strategy that is proving highly effective.
Paul Brown was hired as CEO to lead the turnaround of Arby's in 2013.
The private equity firm Roark Capital purchased Arby's approximately 18 months before Paul Brown became CEO in 2013.
Arby's business performance declined when its product strategy shifted to compete more directly with burger brands.
Every item on the current Buffalo Wild Wings menu has been either newly introduced or reformulated in recent years as part of a complete food quality overhaul.
Two-thirds of the Baskin-Robbins business is located outside of the United States, making it Inspire Brands' most global brand.
Jimmy John's launched a toasted sandwich platform in the current year, a product category the brand had not previously offered.
Paul Brown predicts that Inspire Brands will likely shift its senior leadership incentive structure back towards individual brand performance over the next several years.