Kfc Case Study

My chosen businesses are KFC and NHS. These are the businesses I will be discussing the purpose and ownership. I will also mention the internal and external stakeholders of these two businesses.

Their profits have increased over the three week time. Their percentage change has increased to 2.7%. I bought 150 Yum Brands stock and the stock price has increase over the past 3 weeks. Yum Brands stock price started at 89.8 and they have gone up to 91.25. Some of Yum Brands competitors are Wendy’s, Bojangles, and McDonald. I believe Yum Brands stocks will increase over the period of time. Yum brand has sold 460 million stake to china that means that their sales can go up because they are expanding their company to different countries. They are going to be able to buy their share with an 8% discount. “The two investors could own between 4% and 6% combined of Yum China, depending on how the shares

Yum! Brands started out as Tricon Global Restaurants in 1997 as the result of a separation from PepsiCo, and became owners of the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brand names worldwide. Yum! Brands is now a Fortune 500 company based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the world’s largest restaurant company in the world in terms of system restaurants. With over 37,000 restaurants in over 110 countries, Yum! Brands dominates four sectors of the quick-service food industry: Mexican with the Taco Bell name, chicken with the world famous Kentucky Fried Chicken brand, pizza with the Pizza Hut chain, and seafood with their Long John Silver’s restaurants. Yum! Brands also owns A&W Restaurants, the longest running franchise chain in the

KFCOne of the major competitors for McDonald in the burger segment is KFC. It first came to India in 1995, where it was one of the first multinational food chains to have entered India. It proved not to be a very good time to have come to India where people were still not able to come to terms with multinationals coming to India, and it was targeted by many and remained a not so known food outlet, while the ones which came later became more popular. KFC India had to shut shop in the late 1990s after it faced heavy protests not only from anti-multinational groups but also animal rights' protector, PETA.

The future of any firm company lies in its strategies and alignment to the environmental situation for sustainable profitability. In the restaurant industry, MacDonald’s corporation has developed specific strategies that have made it become the pacesetter for other companies. As the industry becomes more competitive, Macdonald’s corporation needs to balance its business-level strategies and corporate-level strategies. This paper analyses the business-level and corporate strategies adopted by MacDonald’s corporations. An analysis for Macdonald’s Competitive Environment will feature the Yum Brands in a bid to compare the performance on Slow-cycle and Fast-cycle Markets.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is a very famous chain of quick-service chicken restaurant that started from Louisville, Kentucky. The company is became a sub-brand of Yum Brands in the year 2002 and benefitted greatly from the position and brand value of Yum foods. In the past, KFC chain of restaurants grew at a very fast pace and has become today one of the largest chicken restaurants chain in the world.

operates several fast food brands in Australia. KFC is the major brand that Yum runs. The main product of KFC is made by chicken meat. Therefore, the strength and the weakness of KFC are obviously. People who like chicken meat will highly be attracted by KFC. However, it gives customer who like fast food a limited choice. Just use the one kind of meat will make the brand to be more professional. But it also will narrow its potential markets.

Emerging markets: It provides an opportunity to gain market share when new powerhouse emerging as the country.Yum brand become the first mover to open its first restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2013 as fast food companies such as Mcd and Starbucks does not operates at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, so being a first mover in these new markets can prove to be most rewarding .Yum brand also are not emerge yet in Ethiopia country and most of the countries at North Africa such as Mali, Libya, Algeria, Niger, Sudan, Eritrea and more.

Two main food trends that will impact the fast food industry in the US are the go local movement and the movement to healthy alternatives (Wolf, 2013). These trends will present interesting economic challenges for the industry as providing these alternatives are more costly to source and produce. Yum as a conglomerate of brands is well positioned to utilize its purchasing power to be able to source and deliver these trends to the customers.

Every organizations in this world needs human resource management to control the workers to achieve the company’s goals successfully. Human resource department is the backbone of any organization. Human resource department knows about how to deal with the employee. The main function of human resource department is to maintain the internal communication within the organization. So does KFC. The size of KKC employees is more than 10,000. KFC’s type is subsidiary or business segment. Their revenue is $100 to $500 million USD per year. KFC’s headquarter is located in Louisville, KY. It is founded in 1952. KFC is in industry of restaurants, bars, & food services. The main competitors of KFC here in Malaysia

The procedure begins with an online screening test to ensure that the candidate is fit for the business, and the actual work preview allows the candidate to personally experience the job and then decides to join KFC.

The purpose of this report is to identify an organization and map out its business processes. The company I had chosen is Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). In this report, I am going to talk about the company and further on describing it business processes and how they manage such a big organization.

KFC Does two types of planning, Strategic Planning and Operational Planning. Strategic Planning is done to increase its market worth value of the market share and Operational Planning includes launching of new product to change or innovate its product line for the customers. Planning objectives of KFC are to expand the organization on all over the UAE, to create and build superior quality for the customers, to follow marketing mix strategies and to generate superior financial return for KFC and KFC’s employees. Menu planning is done by researching. Supply chain management planning includes the full process related to the supply of raw materials which include chicken, spices and packing material and to increase operation, the objectives of supply chain management planning is to increase the level of outsourcing, increase globalization, increase the supply, increase the competitive pressure and increase the customers.The KFC mission statement is to “sell food in a fast, friendly environment that appeals to pride conscious, health minded consumers”.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is a popular fast food chicken restaurant chain around the world. (Bell, Shelman, 2011) It is one of the subsidiary of Yum Brand. This company also operates the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. (Yum! Brands, Inc, 2016) KFC was founded by Harland Sanders in 1952. (Bell, Shelman, 2011) Sanders was successful in creating the brand, even the logo of KFC brand is the portrait of him. He became a notable figure in American history thanks to his great contribution on creating KFC brand. Nowadays, KFC becomes more and more popular, the sales ranking of KFC was the 11th among the worldwide restaurant brands. (The QSR 50, 2015) The sales of KFC in 2014 was 4200 million dollars. (Details in Appendix 1) It means KFC has a large quantities of consumption needs. Actually, KFC has 14,577 restaurants around the world and 70% of them are located outside America (Yum Brand Annual Report, 2015). The restaurant profit was increased year by year from 2013 to 2015. (Details in Appendix 2) Therefore, it is potential to enlarge the customer base by analyzing consumer behaviors.

Providing customers with the best of both worlds: west meets east. In addition to its radical strategic approach of localization with regard to its food, they extended that viewpoint when selecting their management team. By hiring Chinese executives, Yum! Brands is able to build relationships with the local suppliers more easily and quickly. It definitely helps with their competitive advantage that chicken is a staple meat in China. Given these factors, it is clear that KFC has a competitive advantage in this market. However, taking a closer look at the industry and thinking longer-term, the competitiveness is undesirable but there is still potential to improve profitability. See the analysis