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Costica Misaca, GM Pizza Hut: We expect to turn around the business by the end of 2024

January 8, 2024

Pizza Hut, the second-biggest brand in the portfolio of Romanian restaurant operator Sphera Franchise Group (BVB: SFG), started a reorganization process aiming to streamline its activity and bring it back to operating profit. Costica Misaca, who took over as General Manager of Pizza Hut in September 2023, shares more details about this process.

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