KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) and the leading quick-service restaurant chain in China, announced the debut of the country's first drive-thru restaurant. The drive-thru restaurant is located in the Asian Olympics Village district of Beijing.
"KFC is capitalizing on Chi
KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. and the leading quick-service restaurant chain in China, announced the grand opening of the country's 700th KFC restaurant. The new restaurant is located in Shenzhen.
"KFC is rapidly building on its dominant position as the leading quick-service resta
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) today committed to the adoption of comprehensive industry-leading guidelines and audits for the humane raising and handling of poultry. The company additionally requested the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Labor to review a proposal on the f
Two-time U.S. Women's Open champion Annika Sorenstam is taking a swing at national advertising for KFC. Sorenstam will appear in ads that debut Monday, July 7 and highlight KFC Honey BBQ Wings and Boneless Wings.
During the last two years, popular sports figures such as Barry Bonds, William
Taking a page from television's "real" people mania, KFC is inviting Americans to create a nationally televised commercial, which will become KFC's first foray into the reality commercial arena. The creative consumer who beats the competition will receive $10,000 and see their commer
"We resolved this matter in a mutually agreeable manner with the FTC. We have always believed our ads to be truthful and factually accurate. We're sorry if anyone may have misinterpreted these two ads which ran last November - that was never our intent. In order to put this matter behind us,
KFC finds the actions in the videotape appalling, wherever they have occurred. We do not tolerate animal abuse by any of our suppliers, under any circumstance.
We have notified Pilgrim's Pride that unless they can definitively assure us there are absolutely no abuses taking place, we will no
The reason I'm here today is to set the record straight on this Pilgrim's Pride incident.
As we stated publicly yesterday, KFC is appalled by the actions of Pilgrim's Pride employees at this one facility in Moorefield, West Virginia. As a responsible corporate citizen, we require all
KFC Corporation (KFCC) announced this week the launch of its second annual National Celebration of Family Sweepstakes. In a partnership with Black Entertainment Television, Inc.(BET) network, the national sweepstakes will select weekly winners, via the Internet, to receive KFC gift certificates for
Citing the importance of customer and employee health, restaurant leaders KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) and Pizza Hut both announced today they will enact a No Smoking Policy for all company-owned restaurants. KFC and Pizza Hut are divisions of Louisville, KY-based Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM).
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In coming days, KFC will have television commercials ready to reassure customers that its chicken is safe to eat in the event of a bird flu outbreak.
The chicken chain said Tuesday it hopes the spots never have to air, but it's taking no chances in the face of a potential threat to business.
KFC is giving hungry football fans the chance to win some "super" football prizes just in time for the Big Game. Starting on January 9, chicken lovers and pigskin fans can visit www.ChooseYourSauce.com to enter the "Choose to Party with KFC" online sweepstakes.
U.S. residents ove
Coming off a year of solid sales growth at KFC, franchise owners from around the world began gathering Wednesday in Kissimmee for their annual convention.
More than 13,000 KFC franchisees and company officers are expected to attend the event at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. Spons
Fast food chicken franchising has come a long way from 1939, when Colonel Harlan Sanders introduced Kentucky Fried Chicken. Since then, brands like Church's, Chester's, and Popeyes have spread the gospel of fried chicken not only across the continent, but across the world. Fried chicken has
KFC, Yum! Brands Inc's fried chicken outlet operator, eased franchise limits in China's second- and third-tier cities for the first time so it can expand aggressively.
KFC said the franchisee fee for interested investors can be as low as two million yuan (US$250,000) depending on locatio
As expected, Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd finally succeeded in its bid for the prize KFC franchise following the non-reelection of nine KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd (KFCH) directors at the latter's AGM on June 27.
This followed Kulim's protracted and successful tussle that lasted almost a year
Colonel Sanders, the founder of the KFC Restaurant chain may have begun building his legendary chicken empire almost a century ago, but he'''s still going places today! His most recent achievement is to be voted the First Real Person to be Favorite Icon of the Year. This morning, Col. Sa
The chicken kingpin, often mocked as a poster child of fast food's nutritional negatives, on Monday will unveil plans to switch to a new soybean oil from a partially hydrogenated oil by April and eliminate the artery-clogging trans fats in its fried chicken sold in the USA.
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KFC, with the launch of a new marketing ploy, has become the world'''s first brand to be visible from outer space. The purveyor of "finger-licking good" fried chicken has built an 87,500 square foot version of its founder and icon, Colonel Sanders, in the Nevada desert.
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