This week's lengthy list of IPO offerings, poised to be the busiest week since November 2007, includes a choice collection of consumer centric companies that may prove enticing to prospective investors. Teavana (TEA), Dunkin' Brands (DNKN), and Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF) all recognize that the way to an investor's heart is through his stomach, and to that end, these companies each address a different niche on the food pyramid. These delicious deals are three of twelve IPOs scheduled to price this week US IPO calendar.
Dunkin' Brands owns the Dunkin' Donuts breakfast and Baskin-Robbins ice cream chains. Through these franchised "quick serve restaurants", the company titillates the tummies of its customers with a leadership position in hot and cold coffee, baked goods, and hard serve ice cream. Teavana is a specialty retailer of loose-leaf tea. Unlike Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks, Teavana is not a quick serve station for hot drinks; rather, the company presents itself as a purveyor of premium teas, offering 100 single-estate and blended premium varieties that it sources from premium tea gardens, estates and brokers in China, India, Japan, and Korea. Chefs' Warehouse had humble beginnings as a family-owned local dairy business, but in the 1990s the company emerged from its culinary chrysalis, becoming a national purveyor of specialty foods to thousands of upscale eateries.
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These deals spice up the IPO schedule as their unique growth prospect should serve to fatten investors' wallets if not their waistlines.
