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In 2012, the Comess Group, a multinational franchise company, will expand its number of restaurants by 60, creating 750 jobs. Most of the new restaurants (45) will be based in its home market Spain. For the location of the other 15 restaurants, the Spanish restaurant operator will target Latin America as a new market.
Comess Group franchises restaurants under five brand names, Lizarrán and Cantina Mariachi being the most prominent. In Spain, the company maintains 250 restaurants. The company expands both outside Europe and into Southern Europe, with branches in Portugal, Italy and France.
Eurofound (2011), Comess Group, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 73211, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73211.