TOKYO -- Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners plans to sell its Japanese and South Korean Burger King businesses, Nikkei has learned. It will soon start bidding and the combined sales price could amount to around 100 billion yen ($874 million) .
The move comes as sales at hamburger chains are rising thanks to increased demand for takeaways, despite the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affecting the food service industry as a whole.
