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Australian bookseller Dymocks has branched out into the food business by purchasing an 80 per cent stake in sandwich bar chain Healthy Habits Franchising, reports the Brisbane Times.
The deal was made for an undisclosed sum and includes 30 sandwich bar franchises. We've been looking for some time now for a good Australian business on a growth curve and we came across Healthy Habits about six or eight months ago," Dymocks chief executive Don Grover told AAP. Dymocks will run the two business as separate operations but synergies will take place in its finance IT and legal department