MKA Prestige Holdings ltd.

What MKA Prestige Holdings ltd. does

Prestige Holdings Company Limited (PHL), operating as MKA Prestige Holdings Ltd., is a privately held restaurant management company incorporated in Trinidad and Tobago in 1972. It is the largest restaurant management company in Trinidad and Tobago and the English-speaking Caribbean, operating 128+ restaurant units across five major international franchise brands: KFC (59 quick-service chicken units), Subway (47 sandwich/salad units), Pizza Hut (12 pizza/pasta units), Starbucks (11 coffeehouse units with 5 drive-thrus), and TGI Fridays (4 casual dining units). The company employs over 3,000 restaurant staff plus 250+ corporate support personnel across Customer Service, Human Resource Development, Quality Assurance, Logistics, Finance, and Marketing functions.

PHL operates as a master franchisee under agreements with Yum! Restaurants International (KFC), YUM Brands Inc. (Pizza Hut), Starbucks Corporation, Subway IP Inc., and TGI Fridays Franchisor, granting it exclusive territorial rights to operate these brands in Trinidad and Tobago. The company began with KFC in 1973, added Pizza Hut in 1994, TGI Fridays in 2000, Subway in 2011, and Starbucks in 2016. Revenue is generated exclusively from direct-to-consumer food and beverage sales across owned restaurant locations, with menu pricing determined by each individual franchise brand's local market positioning. The company also offers a catering service spanning all five brands for corporate events.

The corporate headquarters is located on Sackville Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The company is private, publishes annual reports, holds annual general meetings, and is currently the subject of a 2025 Agostini's Limited acquisition offer with a Directors Circular and Notice to Shareholders issued to shareholders. The board includes Christian E. Mouttet (Chairman, also Chairman of Agostini's Limited and CEO of Victor E. Mouttet Limited), suggesting interconnected regional ownership structures.

Name

MKA Prestige Holdings ltd.

Legal name

Prestige Holdings Company Limited

Website

https://phl-tt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Prestige Holdings Company Limited is the largest restaurant management company in Trinidad and Tobago and the English-speaking Caribbean, operating 128+ franchise units across KFC, Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, Subway, and Starbucks brands, serving individual consumers via dine-in, carry-out, delivery, and catering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Port of Spain

HQ country

Trinidad & Tobago

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Food Sales: Revenue generated from direct food and beverage sales across 128 restaurant locations operating KFC, Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, Subway, and Starbucks brands. Sales include dine-in, carry-out, and delivery transactions with customers paying at point of sale.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

MKA Prestige Holdings Ltd. is a multi-brand restaurant management company that operates 128 quick-service and casual-dining franchise restaurants across Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean Islands under the KFC (59 locations), Pizza Hut (12), TGI Fridays (4), Subway (47), and Starbucks (11) brands. The company earns revenue from direct food and beverage sales through dine-in, carry-out, and delivery services, and provides corporate and event catering spanning all five brands.

Product overview

Prestige Holdings Company Limited (PHL) operates as a multi-brand restaurant management company, operating five distinct international restaurant franchises across Trinidad and Tobago: KFC (59 quick service chicken restaurants), Pizza Hut (12 pizza/pasta restaurants), TGI Fridays (4 casual dining restaurants), Subway (41 sandwich/salad quick service locations), and Starbucks (11 coffeehouse locations). The company offers catering services spanning all brands and serves as the largest restaurant management company in Trinidad and Tobago and the English-speaking Caribbean with over 128 restaurants and 3,000+ employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken quick service restaurant chain operating 59 locations in Trinidad and Tobago. Offers freshly prepared chicken products using the Colonel's Secret 11 Herbs and Spices recipe, side dishes, and beverages for dine-in, carry-out, and delivery.
• Pizza Hut Pizza restaurant chain with 12 locations in Trinidad and Tobago. Offers pizzas, pastas, appetizers, desserts, and salads for dine-in, delivery, and carryout services under YUM Brands Inc. master franchise.
• TGI Fridays American-style casual dining restaurant chain with 4 locations in Trinidad and Tobago. Offers authentic American food and drinks including Potato Skins, Jack Daniel's Grill items, and Long Island Iced Tea for dine-in service.
• Subway Sandwich and salad quick service restaurant chain with 47 locations (45 in Trinidad, 2 in Tobago). Offers a variety of sandwiches, salads, wraps, paninis, and pizzas for dine-in, carry-out, delivery, and digital ordering via WhatsApp, Messenger, and website.
• Starbucks Coffeehouse chain with 11 restaurants nationwide including 5 drive-thrus. Offers premium coffee beverages, whole bean coffees, and an uplifting customer experience under exclusive master franchise from Starbucks Corporation.
• Prestige Holdings Catering Corporate and event catering services across all five restaurant brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, Subway, Starbucks). Provides customized food solutions for corporate events, meetings, and functions of various sizes.

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Sewa TTminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2025Prestige Holdings Limited partnered with Sewa TT to provide flood relief support to communities affected by flooding, demonstrating corporate social responsibility commitment.
• NAMDEVCO (National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2021NAMDEVCO partnered with Prestige Holdings Ltd. for its Food Basket Programme, supporting local agricultural development and community food security initiatives.
• Yum! Restaurants InternationalcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerMaster franchisee for KFC brand operated under Yum! Restaurants International (YRI). KFC has more than 15,500 restaurants in more than 100 countries.
• YUM Brands Inc.coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerMaster franchisee for Pizza Hut brand operated under YUM Brands Inc. Pizza Hut has more than 7,200 units in the US and more than 3,000 units in more than 86 countries.
• Starbucks CorporationcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerExclusive owner and operator of Starbucks stores across Trinidad and Tobago. Starbucks opened first store in August 2016 at SouthPark, San Fernando and expanded to Movietowne Port of Spain and Endeavour Chaguanas within the same year.
• Subway IP Inc.coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerMaster franchisee for Subway brand. First Subway opened in T&T in November 1992 in St James. With 47 restaurants, Prestige became the largest restaurant management company in Trinidad and Tobago and English-speaking Caribbean.
• TGI Fridays FranchisorcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerMaster franchisee for TGI Fridays brand. TGI Fridays operates in 60 countries worldwide. First TGI Fridays opened in Trinidad in 1999 at Port-of-Spain, followed by Price Plaza (2001), Gulf City (2004), and Trincity (2019).

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Starbucks Corporation: Starbucks is the global coffee brand and PHL's exclusive franchisor in Trinidad and Tobago (11 stores including 5 drive-thrus). As PHL's most recent and most strategically important franchise partner, Starbucks' global unit economics, franchising strategy, and brand standards directly shape the unit-level performance and growth of PHL's fastest-growing concept.
• Inspire Brands: Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins, and Jimmy John's. The multi-brand consolidation strategy and franchisee-led operating model make Inspire a relevant comparable for PHL's portfolio approach to operating multiple QSR/casual-dining brands under one corporate roof.
• Restaurant Brands International: Restaurant Brands International (RBI) is the multi-brand QSR parent of Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes, and Firehouse Subs. It is comparable to PHL as a globally scaled, multi-brand QSR platform that derives the majority of its revenue from franchise royalties and supply, providing a reference valuation and capital-allocation benchmark for franchisee-led multi-brand QSR businesses like PHL.
• Yum! Brands, Inc. Yum! Brands is the parent franchisor of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, and is PHL's counterparty on its core KFC and Pizza Hut master franchise agreements. As the global brand owner and franchisor of PHL's two largest concepts (59 KFC and 12 Pizza Hut locations), Yum! sets the brand standards, royalty structure, and growth parameters that drive PHL's economics, making it the most influential single counterparty in PHL's business.
• Domino's Pizza, Inc. Domino's is a global QSR pizza brand with a heavily franchised operating model. PHL's Pizza Hut operations (12 units) and broader franchisee-led QSR model share structural characteristics with Domino's franchise network, including royalty-driven economics, territory exclusivity, and unit-level performance management.

Others

• Agostini's Limited: Agostini's Limited is a publicly-listed Trinidad-based conglomerate with interests in consumer goods, food, and related sectors, and is the entity that launched the 2025 going-private offer for PHL. Agostini's is thematically relevant as a potential controlling shareholder / acquirer and as a comparable Caribbean diversified consumer and foodservice operator with shared ownership networks.

Regional players

• Goddard Enterprises Limited: Goddard Enterprises is a large publicly-listed Caribbean conglomerate headquartered in Barbados with operations spanning food manufacturing, restaurants, and consumer goods across the region. As one of the few publicly visible Caribbean multi-sector food and beverage operators, Goddard is a useful regional comparable for PHL's Caribbean consumer foodservice footprint and its strategy of operating multiple brands across the English-speaking Caribbean.
• Jamaica Broilers Group: Jamaica Broilers is a leading Jamaican conglomerate with significant Caribbean foodservice, poultry, and consumer goods operations. While more vertically integrated than PHL, it is comparable as a publicly-traded, Caribbean-headquartered food and restaurant operator with multi-country reach and a brand-portfolio approach to the regional consumer market.

Direct peers

• Arcos Dorados Holdings: Arcos Dorados is the largest independent McDonald's franchisee in the world, operating more than 2,400 restaurants across 20+ Latin American and Caribbean countries. PHL is most directly comparable as a multi-brand, multi-country QSR master franchisee in the Caribbean / Latin America region, with the same master franchisee economics, real-estate-driven growth model, and exposure to emerging-market consumer dynamics.
• Alsea, S.A.B. de C.V. Alsea is a leading multi-brand restaurant operator in Latin America and Europe, operating franchised concepts including Domino's, Starbucks, Burger King, Chili's, P.F. Chang's, and others. Like PHL, Alsea's model is to be the master franchisee of multiple global QSR and casual-dining brands in a defined region, making the operating model, capital allocation, and brand-portfolio strategy directly comparable.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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