Tim Hortons may be bought by Burger King

Hopefully Burger King will then become "Canadianized" and not the other way around.

It's cheaper to run business in Canada than the US, and the US is looking to eliminate this 'unpatriotic' loophole. Sucks when Capitalism isn't in their favour, eh?

Given that BK is majority-owned by a Brazillian company I'm kind of hopeful that Timmie's will become invigorated by their new owners and perhaps they'll get back to fresh baking their products as opposed to 'fresh thawing' them. I'm also hopeful that the atrocious coffee will improve given that the Brazillian firm is also a premium coffee producer.

If the last time I had Timmie's (October) is any indication, the only way to go is up.

Given that BK is majority-owned by a Brazillian company I'm kind of hopeful that Timmie's will become invigorated by their new owners and perhaps they'll get back to fresh baking their products as opposed to 'fresh thawing' them. I'm also hopeful that the atrocious coffee will improve given that the Brazillian firm is also a premium coffee producer.

That's way too much to hope for, especially because the sole reason for moving here would to be to operate for less cost.

It's all about the shareholders and dollar dollar bills yo!

I guess this version of the story didn't mention that the reason is that Canada's corporate taxes are lower. Come On guys, we all know operating costs are higher in Canada. Since only the head office would be moved, the increase in operating costs would be minimal. I'm sure otherwise, they will continue to run the operations in a way they deem will bring the most profit. Ie schlork and dishwater coffee.

It's cheaper to run business in Canada than the US, and the US is looking to eliminate this 'unpatriotic' loophole. Sucks when Capitalism isn't in their favour, eh?


I will remember that the next time some populist politician shouts out that we have to lower our corporate taxes even more to make ourselves competitive.

I thought Timmies had been bought out by Wendy's a few years back? No?
In any event; the Yanks have already screwed up hockey. They'd better not screw up my Timmies now.

Wendy's sold it, again about nine years ago.

The Tim Horton's head office is about two blocks from my house. There are Tim Horton's everywhere, around here and they want to do the same thing in the U.S.. They keep trying but as Target just found out the cultural differences between Canada and the U.S. are greater than either one thought.

Target also had crap, if there's one benefit to this Tim Horton's will finanlly have better lids.

I think Target is okay, but nothing to rave about, but then that was my opinion after visiting them south of the border too. I certainly haven't seen the empty shelves most people complain about - just stores empty of customers.

I think Target's biggest problem isn't prices - I remember the disappointment that Wal-Mart prices didn't match those south of the border when they came in 1993 - the problem is that Target doesn't have much in the way of house brands, so they can't offer stuff that isn't already available elsewhere.

Upside of this is Canada gets more money.

Some Americans were kind of pissed. I guess in Canada we're used to foreign ownership. We just take it for granted. If anything Timmie's being bought out my a huge faceless corporation actually makes them more Canadian.

Canadian perception is far from reality. It just plays into the left wing mantra of "Harper selling off Canada".


When it comes to foreign mergers, Canadians buy way more companies than they sell.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/global- ... not-sells/