Terra Firma plans to sell German highway rest-stop chain Tank & Rast for around €2 bn

13 Dec 2014

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Terra Firma Capital Partners is planning to sell Autobahn Tank & Rast Holding GmbH in a deal that could value the German highway rest-stop chain at more than €2 billion ($2.5 billion), Bloomberg today reported, citing three people with knowledge of with the matter.

The private equity firm has interviewed potential advisers in recent weeks with a view to selling the Bonn-based company in the first half of next year, the report said.

London-based Terra Firma, founded by Guy Hands, had acquired a majority stake in Tank & Rast in 2004 for about €1 billion and sold nearly half its stake in 2007 to Deutsche Bank's infrastructure division RREEF Infrastructure Management Ltd using a €2.27 billion leveraged loan financing to back the buyout. 

Tank & Rast motorway network includes around 390 service areas, 350 petrol stations and 50 hotels serving around 500 million visitors every year.

The highly cash-generative operating model is backed by long-term government concessions generates revenues through retail, restaurants, toilet facilities and fuel sales.

It has 210 bakery counters and more than 250 Segafredo, Lavazza, and Dallmayr coffee bars.

Autobahn Tank & Rast has other well-known brands at its service areas such as Burger King, McDonald´s, and German sea-food restaurant chain Nordsee.

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