...Assignment “Colonel comes to Japan” KFC case study Presented Colonel Comes to Japan This case study we going to talk about how and when KFC come to japan? KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is the biggest company that everyone know as a fast food restaurant that serve a quality fried chicken around the world but some people don’t know how KFC come to be famous in in the world including Japan. KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. KFC was one of the first fast-food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in England, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 80s. The chain continued to expand overseas. A series of documentary programs examining the American business community with concentration on the attempt by American fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken to gain a foothold in the protected Japanese market. Focusing on the daily duties of Loy Weston, chair of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan, the program examines the cultural differences, which had to be overcome for the American poultry powerhouse to open and maintain over 300 restaurants in Japan in eleven years. Highlights include the following: footage of many life-size statues of "Colonel Harlan Sanders" -- the chicken chain's apocryphal antebellum progenitor - on the back of a flatbed truck being hauled to various franchise locations, footage of future employees diligently working...
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...Prepared for: Kentucky Fried Chicken Prepared by: Meaghan Jordan Date: 13 May 2010 ------------------------------------------------- CCT 667: Contemporary Corporate Communications ------------------------------------------------- Professor A. Hoffman I. Executive Summary As outside council to Kentucky Fried Chicken, a Yum! Brands company, I was asked to consult on the branding crisis plaguing the popular fast food chains in the United States market. The public identity of Kentucky Fried Chicken has been on shaky ground for the past five years. The inconsistent branding and products have caused market share values and annual revenues to consistently decrease. The primary constituent, the consuming public, has been left to decipher the mixed messages presented by the Kentucky Fried Chicken brand. Through the implementation of a three-phase strategy, Kentucky Fried Chicken will be able to reestablish itself as a profitable leader in the fast food chicken industry. The design of a logo and company name, in conjunction with a healthy menu that properly embodies the meaning of the brand will be the key to a clear identity. The final piece of the equation requires a comprehensive, nationwide advertising plan to re-launch the contemporary and comprehensible identity of the Kentucky Fried Chicken brand. II. The Company The American fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was a family run business, founded in 1930 by Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. The Sanders...
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...American company in the fast-food industry. We will be discussing about some aspects of this company generally, but we intend to give more details on the company Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) which is one of the Strategic Business Units (SBU) of Yum!Brands. We will give the profile of Yum!Brands and KFC, and also analyze the strategy of the company, its internal and external environment, its position vis-à-vis its competitors, its competitive advantage and how far it has come/how well it is doing today. We intend to focus on one local market, so in this project we are taking KFC China as our case study. We decided to choose Yum!Brands and specifically KFC as our project case study because we have noticed the rapid growth of the fast-food industry. Fast-food is a typical American trend which reflects the American eating culture of “grabbing a quick bite” so to speak. Today people are very busy, not only in America but all over the world. People have less time to sit and eat a home cooked meal, especially at lunch time when almost everyone is out of the house and working. The most convenient thing to do is to go for a “fast-food”. We noticed that this trend has even moved from being just a lunch-time substitute for home cooked meals to being a fun time meal between friends, colleagues and family. Some corporate bodies even order fast-food for meetings or corporate get-togethers. It is easy to hear that a company in the high-tech industry or car industry makes a lot of money, but...
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...INTRODUCTION KFC (the name was originally an initialize for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains. KFC was founded by 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 the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders," Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. However, the company's rapid expansion saw it overwhelm the ageing Sanders, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr.and Jack C. Massey. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed fortunes domestically...
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...KFC (the name was originally an initialism for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains. KFC was founded by 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 the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders," Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. However, the company's rapid expansion saw it overwhelm the ageing Sanders, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed fortunes domestically, as it...
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...KFC (the name was originally an initialism for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains. KFC was founded by 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 the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders," Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. However, the company's rapid expansion saw it overwhelm the ageing Sanders, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed fortunes domestically, as it went...
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...Company History: KFC Corporation is the largest fast-food chicken operator, developer, and franchiser in the world. KFC primarily sells chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches. While its primary focus is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts. Outside North America, KFC offers beef based products such as hamburgers or kebabs, pork based products such as ribs and other regional fare. KFC, a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc. until late 1997, operates over 5,000 units in the United States, approximately 60 percent of which are franchises. Internationally, KFC has more than 3,700 units, of which two-thirds are also franchised. In addition to direct franchising and wholly owned operations, the company participates in joint ventures, and continues investigating alternative venues to gain market share in the increasingly competitive fast-food market. In late 1997 the company expected to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., to be formed from the spinoff of PepsiCo's restaurant holdings. New Management for Kentucky Fried Chicken In 1964 Sanders sold Kentucky Fried Chicken for $2 million and a per-year salary of $40,000 for public appearances; that salary later rose to $200,000. The offer came from an investor group headed by John Y. Brown, Jr. a 29-year-old graduate of the University of Kentucky law school, and Nashville financier John (Jack) Massey. A notable member of the investor...
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...Kentucky Fried Chiken is one of the world’s largest fast-food chicken chain. Owning or franchising around than 12000 units in almost 90 countries. Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, Ltd is a Japan-based company engaged in the sale of fried chicken, processed chicken and pizzas. The company has two main segments. The Kentucky Fried Chicken segment offers food products including chicken sandwiches, drinks and other food materials. This segment is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of packaging materials, the sale of processed chicken, as well as the advertising activities for its products. The company met a number of challanges to overcome when entering the Japanese market, in terms of the difference in culture and eating habits. Japanese did not accept the brand so it was not easy to build trust in the KFC brand through advertising showing scenes depicting Colonel Sander’s beginnings in Kentucky that conveyed southern hospitality, old American tradition, and authentic home cooking. Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) was one of the first american companies, based consumer products and services companies to tackle the tough Japanese market. Briefly summarize the key facts, scope and aspects of the case Corporate values, local market, and culture knowledge are the key success factors to be successful in a global economy. Within the industry KFC soon learned that effective store management was also a key factor in profitability. DEVELOP Political environmental ...
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...CASE ANALYSIS: Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Global Fast-Food BUS 478 D1.03 Professor Wosk By: Frank CHU 20005-6416 March 3, 2003 0 Individual Case – Kentucky Fried Chicken History and Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) is the world’s largest chicken restaurant chain. It operates more than 10,200 restaurants worldwide in more than 79 countries. After PepsiCo brought up KFC in 1986, KFC carried out significant changes in different areas including the new focus on product quality, the new product offerings and differentiation, and the control system. Recently, KFC is inevitably facing a lot of business problems such as losing market shares and dealing uncertainties with the international markets. This report will focus on the recent matters that KFC have and will organize into four sections. First it will analyze KFC’s external environments, then the internal. Later, it will discuss the company’s global environments and strategies. At the end, it will provide recommendations for the identified problems. External Analysis The external analysis will focus on Porter’s five forces. Risk of entry by potential competitors The threat of entry barrier of the chicken fast-food chain industry is moderate. On one side, the entry barrier is low because the entry capital investment is low. For example, Chick-fil-A enters the industry by opening many small units in the food courts of shopping malls. Instead of investing millions in building restaurant houses, those...
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...Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Operations Management Group Final Project Outline Table of Contents I. Background of Kentucky Fried Chicken (Mehmet Kaptan) II. Operations management activities in details 1. Process Strategy and Capacity planning (Mehmet Kaptan) 2. Managing Quality (Alaa Tashkandi) 3. Project Management: Manpower planning, acquisition, and control (Yi-Chien Lee) 4. Scheduling (Yi-Chien Lee) 5. Location Strategy and Layout Planning (Yi-Chien Lee) 6. Material control (Yi-Chien Lee) 7. Aggregate Planning (Tsing-Hui Chen) 8. HR Strategy: Training and development for employees (Tsung-Hui Chen) 9. Supply Chain Management (Tsung-Hui Chen) 10. Design of Goods and Services (Alaa Tashkandi) III. Operations Management Problem 1 and Solutions (All members participate in discussion, consolidated by Alaa Tashkandi) IV. Operations Management Problem 2 and Solutions (All members participate in discussion, consolidated by Mehmet Kaptan) V. Conclusion (Tsung-Hui Chen) VI. Bibliography (All members) I. Background of Kentucky Fried Chicken (Mehmet Kaptan) Kentucky Fried Chicken as known as KFC is one of the most famous fast restaurant chains in the world with its over 17,000 outlets in 105 countries. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, the chain became an “American icon” with its specialization in fried chicken. As a subsidiary of “Yum! Brands” like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, the company made an estimated...
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...the original Kentucky Fried Chicken, was born on September 9, 1890. When he was six, his father died and his mother was forced to go to work while young Sanders took care of his three year old brother and baby sister. This meant he had to do much of the family cooking. By the time he was seven, Harland Sanders was a master of a range of regional dishes. After a series of jobs, in the mid 1930s at the age of forty, Colonel Sanders bought a service station, motel and cafe at Corbin, a town in Kentucky about 25 miles from the Tennessee border. He began serving meals to travellers on the dining table in the living quarters of his service station because he did not have a restaurant. It is here that Sanders began experimenting with different seasonings to flavour his chicken which travellers loved and for which he soon became famous. He then moved across the street to a motel and restaurant, which seated 142 people. During the next nine years he developed his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique which is still used today. Sander's fame grew. Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. And in 1939, his establishment was first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating". A new interstate highway carried traffic past the town, which soon had a devastating affect on his business. He sold up and travelled the United States by car, cooking chicken for restaurant...
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...Executive Summary Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) continues to be recognized as an earliest franchising company around the world. Approximately 50% of KFC’s worldwide restaurant businesses are owned & operated by independent businessmen & women, KFC franchisees. KFC’s outstanding brand recognition, experienced management, high quality food, site development expertise, advanced operational systems & unique global infrastructure position them to capitalize on global opportunities. KFC is currently seeking highly qualified individuals to join its family as new franchisees in both North America. & International markets. The feature of their tasty fast food items with unique value & services, creating a high demand for KFC in the international business arena. KFC already proves their demand in the global market by providing quality fried chicken & other fast foods. More than a billion of the KFC’s "finger licking good" chicken dinners are served annually. And not just in North America. The KFC’s cooking is available in more than 80 countries and territories around the world. Furthermore, there is a golden opportunity for KFC to expand their global foodservice in Bangladesh also. KFC can enter the Bangladeshi market for its demand & brand image. One of the biggest franchising companies is Kentucky Fried Chicken. Unique brand quality fast food provider KFC hold some exclusive strength. KFC is the provider of world quality foods. Different varieties of food items are there in KFC. KFC will...
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...Management of McDonalds Introduction The father of the quality movement which is W. Edwards Deming introduced the concept of management named Total Quality Management (TQM). This approach management originated in Japanese Industry in the 1950’s and became popular in the West since early 1980’s. TQM is a system for a customer focused organization in continual improvement that involves all employees of all aspects of the organization. Employee involvement, focus on the customer, benchmarking, and continuous improvement are the four significant elements of TQM. Besides, there are some management techniques which involve in the implementation of TQM, such as quality circles, Six Sigma, reduced cycle time and continuous improvement Employee involvement is creating an environment for employees as to have impact on decisions making and actions which can affect their jobs. Focus on the customer Customer is the only element who determine the level of quality and the worthwhile level from all the efforts which organization do to foster quality improvement, training employees, integrating quality into processes management. Benchmarking Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance to industry as to learn and practice from other industry for achieving the best performance. Continuous improvement The process which involve ongoing efforts to improve the system, products, services or process to achieve improvement in an organization and company. Quality...
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...Kentucky Fried Chicken Strategic Plan-Part One Jeanette Cortez, Autumn Crowther, James Hopper Fernando Manaloto, Joe Newkirk, and Rita Salem International Strategic Planning and Implementation STR/GM 581 March 31, 2011 Dr. Tim Becker, MBA Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken has been established as a franchise in Latin America and the focus of this plan will be the El Salvador franchise. The strategic management process is vital and a well laid out plan is necessary. Consequently, by evaluating the background of KFC, the outcome should lead to a clear mission and vision statement outlining the purpose and goals of the company. Also, the mission and vision will keep all shareholders informed of the objectives that should be met by KFC. “Defining the company mission is one of the most often slighted tasks in strategic management” (Pearce II & Robinson Jr., 2009, p. 42). A mission lays out the organization’s goals and basically specifies the purpose of the organization. Decisions and strategies can be established after environmental scanning is done along with a Situational Analysis (SWOT). The strategic process also involves frequently assessing the industry structure and choosing strategic plan options that help expand global operations. The two chosen strategic options that will be discussed will be product differentiation and cost leadership. This plan should give clarity on how the options and recommendations fit with both the competitive situation...
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...PROJECT REPORT KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN [pic] COURSE ID: CIS-101 COURSE NAME: FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTER SYSTEM PURPOSE OF THE REPORT: FINAL PROJECT SUBMITTED BY: INTANGIBLE GROUP SUBMITTED TO: DR. MAHADY HASAN DATE OF SUBMISSION: 25.04.201 INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH Acknowledgements: This project cannot be completed without active support from different sources. We have been lucky in this respect & received advice and assistance from many directions. Among our contemporary benefactors, we would like to pay our deepest gratitude and heartiest tribute to our instructor Mr. Mahady Hasan for his successful guidance and very friendly conduct to complete this work. His kind and friendly behavior can’t be forgotten at all. Finally, we are thankful to our friends for their support and encouragement, . • Introduction of KFC: 4 • Company Overview: 9 • Product and Services: 12 • Conclusion: 25 • References: 28 • Appendix: 29 Introduction of KFC: Background: Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. Harland Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville, Indiana, America, in 1890. Sanders loved to cook and to invent a new recipe. One day he tested to mix eleven herbs...
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