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History. KFC first entered the South African market in 1971. [ 10] The company was forced to divest its 60 company owned outlets and trademarks to a South African holding company called Devco in 1987 after the US Congress passed a law forbidding American companies from owning South African assets. [ 11] The company's 120 franchised outlets were ...
A KFC outlet in Nairobi, Kenya. A KFC restaurant in a railway station in Marrakesh, Morocco. A KFC restaurant with a drive thru in Walvis Bay, Namibia. A KFC restaurant in Ilorin, Nigeria. A KFC drive thru restaurant in Pretoria, South Africa. A KFC restaurant in Mwananyamala, Tanzania.
Chicken Licken was founded in South Africa by George Sombonos, the son of a Greek immigrant restaurant owner. [6] [9] [10] Sombonos learned the restaurant trade in the 1970s at the Dairy Den, his father's restaurant in Ridgeway, a suburb in the southern Inner City region of Johannesburg. [11] [12] KFC entered the South African market in 1971. [13]
Website. kfc.com. KFC Corporation, [ 4] doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken ), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's ...
Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum! ), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China.
History of KFC. KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of restaurant franchising, and the first "Kentucky ...
Official website. www .cricket .co .za. Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB ), ending enforced racial separation governance in ...
Operations of KFC by country. A KFC outlet in Quito, Ecuador; the largest market for the chain in the Caribbean and South America. Map of countries with KFC franchises as of December 2023. KFC is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, one of the largest restaurant companies in the world. KFC had sales of $23 billion in 2013. [1]