Tim Hortons is owned by Restaurant Brands International (Canada, NYSE: QSR), which acquired the brand on 12 December 2014 for $12.5 billion from Tim Hortons Inc.[1][2] Before Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons was owned by Tim Hortons Inc. from 1964 to 2014.[2]
Evidence: Restaurant Brands International Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20, SEC EDGAR, 20 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Tim Hortons was founded in 1964 by a National Hockey League defenceman and is the largest restaurant chain in Canada, serving a substantial share of all coffee bought there. Its 2014 merger with Burger King made the combined company Canadian for tax purposes, which drew political criticism.
Sentences about Tim Hortons from Restaurant Brands International's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Tim Hortons - Founded in 1964, Tim Hortons is one of the largest coffee and baked goods restaurant chains in North America and the largest in Canada as measured by total number of restaurants.
Tim Hortons restaurants also serve a variety of hot and cold specialty beverages alongside delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner offerings including sandwiches, wraps, flatbread pizzas, and more.
We operate two coffee roasting facilities where we roast the majority of the coffee for our Tim Hortons restaurants globally and blend the beans for our take home, packaged coffee.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Restaurant Brands International controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in restaurants & foodservice.
The 22 brands in coffee & café chains on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Jollibee Group, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Compose Coffee | Jollibee Group | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Coffee Couture | Famous Brands | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Elios Craft Cafe | BMMI | 🇧🇭 Bahrain |
| CHAGEE | Chagee | 🇨🇳 China |
| Costa Coffee | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dutch Bros | Dutch Bros | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dunkin' | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jeronymo | Jerónimo Martins | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
Restaurant Brands International is a publicly listed company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: QSR and TSX: QSR.
Restaurant Brands International was created in 2014 when Burger King, controlled by 3G Capital, merged with the Canadian chain Tim Hortons in a transaction that moved the combined headquarters to Canada. It added Popeyes in 2017 and Firehouse Subs in 2021, and 3G Capital retains a substantial stake.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 178 brands that began in Canada. 45 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Tim Hortons is not one of them.
Burger King, controlled by 3G Capital, merged with Tim Hortons to create Restaurant Brands International, headquartered in Canada. The move drew criticism in the United States as a tax inversion, and Berkshire Hathaway provided $3 billion of preferred equity financing.
The parent company of Tim Hortons is Restaurant Brands International, a publicly listed company headquartered in Canada.
Yes. Tim Hortons originated in Canada in 1964 and its owner, Restaurant Brands International, is also headquartered in Canada.
Restaurant Brands International completed its acquisition of Tim Hortons on 12 December 2014, after announcing the deal on 26 August 2014. The deal was valued at $12.5 billion (enterprise value).
Before Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons was owned by Tim Hortons Inc. from 1964 until 2014.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Tim Hortons is still owned by Restaurant Brands International. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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