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A look at Fat Brands’ four-year growth run

Since 2017, Fat Brands has gone from making small deals on the margins to engineering nine-figure acquisitions. It is now 10 times the size it was when the shopping spree began. By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 01, 2021

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