Quinco (MSE: QNC) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Birkirkara, Malta that operates 3 consumer brands under licence without owning the names, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]
Quinco Holdings is the food business that Simonds Farsons Cisk separated from its brewery in 2025. It was incorporated in Malta on 8 May 2025, acquired Food Chain Limited and Quintano Foods Limited from Farsons on 10 September 2025, and was admitted to the Malta Stock Exchange on 6 October 2025, its shares handed to Farsons shareholders as an interim dividend in kind rather than sold. Food Chain runs seventeen quick service restaurants across Malta under Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut franchises, thirty years after the first of them opened, and Quintano Foods imports and distributes food to supermarkets, independent retailers and the catering trade, taking on the Maltese distribution of the H.J. Heinz portfolio in March 2026. The group reported revenue of €13.3 million and profit before tax of €1.3 million in its first, part-year accounts to 31 December 2025.
Simonds Farsons Cisk separated its food business from its brewery. Shareholders approved the spin-off at the annual general meeting in June 2025; Quinco Holdings p.l.c., incorporated on 8 May 2025, acquired Food Chain Limited and Quintano Foods Limited from Farsons on 10 September 2025; the Malta Financial Services Authority approved the prospectus on 24 September; and the 36 million shares were distributed to Farsons shareholders as an interim dividend in kind before being admitted to the Malta Stock Exchange on 6 October 2025, with trading opening the next day. The Maltese Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut franchises moved with the food business; Farsons kept the beer, the soft drinks and the water.
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