Burger King Says No Plans to Open in Country
U.S. fast-food chain Burger King said yesterday that no one holds the rights to open a branch of its restaurant in Cambodia, despite job advertisements appearing online featuring the company’s logo. …. “Currently, we do not have any established franchisee in Cambodia,” Tan Ching Ee, marketing director for Burger King’s Asia-Pacific office in Singapore, said in an email. Garment factory owner Sok Hong, who is a board member at Sokimex Group and the son of Sokimex chairman Sok Kong, said on Monday he was involved in talks to bring Burger King to Cambodia. In online job advertisements, a company calling itself Blue Kite Food and Beverage Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Imex Pan-Pacific Group, claimed it held the rights for Burger King in Cambodia. … Mr. Hong declined to comment on the statement from Burger King, but said that media reports of the talks to bring Burger King to the country had caused difficulties. “Now, everything is complicated,” he said. “Don’t publish anything.” …
