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Datamonitor's Darden Restaurants, Inc. - SWOT Analysis company profile is the essential source for top-level company data and information. The report examines the company’s key business structure and operations, history and products, and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy.

Darden Restaurants (Darden) is an operator of casual dining restaurants. It owns and operates 1,702 restaurants in the US and Canada. The company's restaurants operate under six flagship brands: Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52. The company also operates specialty restaurants: Hemenway’s Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar and The Old Grist Mill Tavern. The company primarily operates in the US and Canada; Darden also operates in Japan. It is headquartered in Orlando, Florida and employs 9,600 people. The company recorded revenues of $6,626.5 million during the financial year (FY) ended May 2008, an increase of 19% over 2007. This was primarily due to the acquisition of RARE, a net increase of 39 Olive Garden restaurants, and increase in same-restaurant sales at Olive Garden, the US. The operating profit of the company was $600.4 million during FY2008, an increase of 5.2% over 2007. The net profit was $377.2 million in FY2008, an increase of 87.3% over 2007.

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