Founded in 1999, Little Sheep Group ("Little Sheep"), is the largest domestic restaurant chain in China, specialising in Mongolian-style hot pot cuisine. It operates company-owned and franchise restaurants worldwide, throughout China and Hong Kong as well as Macau, Japan, the US, Canada and Indonesia. Little Sheep successfully completed their Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 12 June 2008. The IPO values the company above US$420 million.