KUALA LUMPUR: Empire Premium Food Bhd’s retail offering of 55 million issued shares has been oversubscribed by 23.30 times, with 35,577 applications for 1.33 billion issued shares received from the Malaysian public.

The owner-operator of the Empire Sushi brand said that specifically, a total of 11,549 applications for 394.47 million issued shares were received for the Bumiputera portion, representing an oversubscription rate of 13.34 times.