Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc., the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, today announced the initial public offering of 22,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $19 per share. The Company’s shares are expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on July 27, 2011 under the trading symbol “DNKN.” In addition, the underwriters have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 3,337,500 shares.
The offering is being made through an underwriting group led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, along with BofA Merrill Lynch, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Acting as co-managers are Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Moelis & Company LLC, SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited, Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc., and The Williams Capital Group, L.P.