...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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...Students name: Rim Srour 71230009 Batoul Fakhoury 71330184 Iman Yaakoub 71330121 Spring 2015/2016 IMGT497 managing entrepreneurships Social Application of Autism Brief summary:- Autism affects the structure and function of the brain and nervous system. Because it affects development, Autism is called a developmental disorder. Autism can last throughout a person's life. People with this disorder have problems with communication, interactions with other people (social skills), restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. Because of that we create a game that help this kind of people to communicate with other this game is like an application on tablet devices that contain picture of the needs of the autism child and by taking picture that the children want just to express what they want to do this game help them to know what they want to do because they cannot speak and communicate good with other people. How it will effect on society? For children with autism, these games are particularly enticing. “Kids with autism are very concrete and literal thinkers,” “They are drawn to games because they are visual and provide a structure, sequence and predictability that make sense to them and provide comfort.” Initially, this game can have a calming effect on behavior as children hyper-focus on the screen, able to block external environmental stimuli that can cause sensory overload. Because of this game players can be an option...
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...Contents I - Introduction 2 II - Micro Environment 2 1. Customers 2 2. Partners 3 2.1. Suppliers 3 2.2. Franchisees 3 3. Competitors 3 4. Industry 4 III - Macro Environment 4 1. Political 5 1.1. Carbon tax 5 1.2. Minimum wages 5 2. Social Cultural 5 3. Economic 6 IV - Conclusion 6 V - References: 6 I - Introduction KFC, which has full name as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is one of well-known fast food brand names in the world due to their effective marketing strategies. To create good marketing strategies, KFC needs to understand the market by conducting a market research and collecting information about micro and macro environment. Therefore, they can influence factors in the micro environment and respond to potential macro environmental factors that can affect to them within next 12 months in Australia. This report focuses on marketing concepts which explain micro and macro environment. These key marketing concepts will be analysed and explain how KFC applied into their strategies. This report is based on academic resources such as marketing lecture notes of Insearch, text books of Philip Kotlers and academic online resources. II - Micro Environment Micro environment is examined as an environment in which the company can indirectly influence such as customers, partners, competitors and industry. For each factor, the company need to have suitable strategies to affect. 1. Customers Under marketing concepts of Philip Kotler (Marketing...
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... 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 and the organizational situation. Background Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) corporation is touted as the “world’s most popular chicken franchise” (KFC, 2011). KFC serves over 12 million customers...
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...Introduction In this report included a marketing plan for our organization so that the marketing performance gets to improve. The marketing processes which can helps company to have a more understanding about the market are going to discuss in this report. Besides, benefit and cost of adopting a marketing orientation and the marketing environment which influence the marketing decisions are also included in this report too. Other than that, the segmentation criteria of the company are also suggested in this report. We will know about the targeting strategy and buyer behavior from this report after our analysis. Lastly, we would like to suggest a new positioning strategy for our company too. (Urmi Saha, n.d.) KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken is the largest and the most famous brand quick service restaurant of the fast food in Malaysia. In Malaysia, the first KFC restaurant was opened at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1973. (Center Blog, 2009) Today there are more than 500 KFC Restaurants across the nation and still counting. At first KFC utilized stove-top secured cooking pots to broil its chicken. In the 1960s, the formally recommended model was the L S Hartzog created "KFC 20-Head Cooker" which cost $16,000. The Hartzog model had no oil filtration framework, implying that filtering must be done physically, and the pressure fryers occasionally exploded, this always hurt their employeees. In 1969, innovator and engineer Winston L. Shelton built up the "Collectramatic" pressurized fryer...
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...Introduction All of companies should be use the ethical decision to development their business on the right way because it’s a behavior of company showing to the publics and also responsible to social or public. The decision of company might be influence the company and public if they are taking the unethical idea to run for business. Therefore, the decision makers have to consider the benefits of company and to avoid the bad influence for public before make any decision. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is a well known fast food brand in the world; it was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952. (KFC.com) KFC is a chain restaurant in the world to selling fried chicken to customers; it has more than 11,000 branches in more than 80 nations over the world. The products of KFC selling are fried chicken, nudges, sandwiches, desserts, salads and so on. In addition, KFC not only selling the food also selling the service to customer to attract them comes to having meal at there. Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the well-known fast food restaurants in the world. It operates in 74 countries and territories throughout the world. KFC began with Colonel Harland Sanders. He discovered his penchant for cooking when he was only 9 years old. Through the years he grew up to become a personage the world knows as Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC. KFC has more than 11,000 branches in more than 80 nations and territories all over the world. KFC now regarded as the most chicken restaurant chain...
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...Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Global Fast-Food Industry Case Analysis 1.0 Source Problem The change in demographic trends in the past two decades has seen an overall increase in costs for KFC and other fast food chains. Due to immense price competition and saturation of the US market, KFC is unable to raise its prices to cover the increased costs. The slower US population growth rate, oversupply of fast food chains and the minuscule 1% growth in the US restaurant industry per year has resulted in KFC¡¦s focus on expansion of their international markets. 2.0 Secondary Problems 2.1 Short Term - New product introductions are slow. - Market research inefficiency. Eg. Germans were not accustomed to buying takeout or ordering over the counter. McDonalds performed better in this aspect. - Crispy strips and chicken sandwiches cannibalized the fried chicken sales. 2.2 Long Term - Differences between the PepsiCo and KFC corporate strategy and culture. - PepsiCo/KFC poor relationship with franchisees. - Increased competition from direct and indirect competitors. - Reduction in market share in the US market. - Risks involved in international operations: long distances made it difficult to control quality and service, increased transportation and other resource costs, and time, culture and language differences increased communication and operational problems. - Fast food sales grew at a slower rate (5%) in comparison to other sectors in the restaurant industry. ...
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...Content Chapter 4: Disposition of the Army Sun Zi said: In antiquity those who were excelled in warfare result that they would not be defeated and then waited for opportunities to defeat the enemy. Positioning means that importance to defend the existing position lead you to move in advance on your opponents and how you must recognize for the opportunities to defeat the enemy. As indicate in business application, according to the Product Life Cycle there are 3 stages. According to the above as Sun Zi said, this is the first stage of the Product Life Cycle. If your company would like to come out a new product wait for the good opportunity and see the external environment such as government policy, competitor’s strategy, consumer behaviour, trend, supplier and more. The manager of the company have to do some research about the current market, collect more information, build up connection, build up strong financial background, build up internal culture and Research and Development in order to succeed in the future. The vital action is being well prepared before the opportunity coming. In this stage, when an established company comes out with a new product and the product may invest a lot of research and development capital. However the investor might not getting good returns or feedback when compare with the effort they are putting. In other words, this also show an indication that the company to rest and do another well preparation before they start over again for the...
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...MINOR PROJECT REPORT ON “TO STUDY AND ANALYZE THE CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOR WHILE EATING OUT AT KFC AND TO STUDY THE MARKETING STRATEGIES OF KFC FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STRATEGIC MARKETING” PROJECT SUPERVISOR SUBMITTED BY:- Amity School Of Business (ASB) Sector 125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh Phones: 0120 244 5252 Website: www.amizone.net CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Mr.___________, Roll No.________, has completed his research project and has submitted this project report entitled “To study and analyze the consumer buying behavior while eating out at KFC and To study the marketing strategies of KFC from the perspective of Strategic Marketing” towards part fulfillment of the requirements for...
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...[pic] Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)- one of the most known fast food chains in the world started in the early 1930's by Kernel Sanders in the Southern USA as a small franchise operation. Colonel Sanders has become a well known personality throughout thousands of KFC restaurants World wide. Quality, service and cleanliness (QSC)represents the most critical success factors to KFC's global success. Food, Fun & Festivity, this is what KFC is all about. Leading the market since its inception, KFC provides the ultimate chicken meals for the Chicken Loving Nation. Be it Colonel Sanders secret Original Recipe Chicken or the Hot & Spicy version, every bite brings a YUM on the face. At KFC we proudly say: KFC has more than 11,000 restaurants in more than 80 countries and territories around the World. In 1971, Heublein, Inc. acquired KFC, soon after, conflicts erupted between the Colonel (which was working as a public relations and goodwill ambassador) and Heublein management over quality control issues and restaurant KFC is part of Yum! Brands, Inc., however in the case of Pakistan KFC build the relation of Quality Service and clealiness for Customer KFC was acquired by PepsiCo in 1986, it had grown to approximately 6,600 units in 55 countries and territories. Due to strategic reasons, in 1997 PepsiCo spun off its restaurant businesses (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC) “We Do Chicken Right” ...
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...ABSTRACT Firstly I would like to thank my beloved lecture who gave me a chance to gain a new experience and knowledge. Besides that, they helped me to make this project successful by giving me guidelines and advices. Special lecture which was given on this topic did help me to understand more about the project which should be carried out. Furthermore, I would like to thanks to my manager of KFC Ms Rossa giving me this learning opportunity. Her organizational skills, professionalism, and kindness create a work environment that is enjoyable to work in. This report bears testimony to the large amounts of knowledge and experience that I have gained throughout my Students in Enterprise Programmed (SIEP) Training duration at KFC PEN (M) SDN BHD, GELANG PATAH,JOHOR. The report touches briefly on KFC as an excellent as a team member. Special attention was given to the business skills I received in every area of my training. Introduction Entrepreneurship is a process of creating and expanding businesses that collectively form a force for national development and societal prosperity. Entrepreneurs are individual who actively form or lead own business. Active involvement means direct participation and repeating the acts as deemed opportune at others times. There are few personal entrepreneurial competencies such as initiative, sees and acts on opportunities, persistence, information seeking and concern for high quality for work. These competencies are good qualification...
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...Comparative Study of McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Development in China Wei Hu & Yuanyuan Xie Bachelor’s Thesis 28. 04. 2013 International Business Administration Bachelor’s degree (UAS) SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES THESIS Abstract Field of Study Social Sciences, Business and Administration Degree Programme Degree Programme in International Business Author(s) Wei Hu & Yuanyuan Xie Title of Thesis Comparative Study of McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) development in China Date 28.04.2013 Pages/Appendices 53+2 Supervisor(s) Jari Niemelä &Heikki Likitalo Client Organization/Partners McDonald's Corporation & Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation Abstract McDonald's and KFC are two international fast food restaurants. They both expended their businesses in global scale. It is obvious that McDonald surpassed KFC in terms of sales and fame in international level. However, in China, KFC performs better than McDonald's. The aim of this study is to find out how these two companies developed differently in Chinese market. By making a comparative study of McDonald's and KFC, different operation and competitive strategy theory will be integrated with their development situation. Research is made based on strategy theory, Internet sources and interviews. The thesis is started with general information, Chinese fast food industrial situation introduction and thesis structure. After having introduced the two companies background, we illustrated strategy...
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...Kfc Japan Case Study – KFC Japan INTRODUCTION Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was set up by Harland Sanders. In the first decades of the enterprise there were no management systems or strategic controls. However, it worked fine in the beginning, mainly because for launching new franchises an entrepreneurial spark was fundamental. Nevertheless, the company grew and after suffering declines in sales and profits the implementation of strategic planning, which was introduced by Michael Miles in late 1975, seemed to be an adequate measure to solve the problems. By 1979, the various programs of the strategic planning progress were beginning to show results. Anyhow, some foreign subsidiaries resisted and didn’t want to adopt these measurements. PROBLEM STATEMENT One of the main problems KFC was facing, was that foreign subsidiaries were not willing to adapt standards – like strategic planning - imposed by the headquarter. Especially KFC-J has been strongly resisting the implementation of administrative operational controls and systems. Should the headquarters be prepared to accept operational variations? Moreover, it had to be clarified what was an appropriate level of performance expectations for overseas units. Even though it was obvious that KFC had to maintain its drive for aggressive growth, there was incertitude about how to ensure the continuance of such growth. Additionally, there was the issue of how to expand into new markets and countries successfully. KFC had...
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...1.0 Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the well-known fast food restaurants in the world. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's most widespread chicken restaurant chain offering services to more than 12 million customers in 109 countries all around the world. KFC operates more than 5,200 restaurants in the United States and more than 15,000 units around the world. KFC was founded by Harland Sanders (Sanders) in the early 1930s. He started cooking and serving food for hungry travelers who stopped by his service station in Corbin, Kentucky, US. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, of Yum Brands since 1997 when that company was acquired from PepsiCo as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. Background of the Ethical Issue : Recently KFC faced accusation from non government organizations like PETA and Greenpeace regarding unethical practices from KFC’s supply chain such as Pilgrim’s Pride and Cargill.KFC was accused of ill-treatment towards its chicken by PETA and Greenpeace blamed KFC for its role in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. This case study discusses these ethical issues in detail and concludes with suggestions and recommendations from the case study team, on how similar issues could be avoided or tackled. Objectives Understand the significance of cultural, economic, regulatory and ecological issues while establishing business in a foreign country. Which are: Appreciate the need for protecting animal...
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...I. ISSUES In 1996, KFC remained the world’s largest chicken restaurant chain and third largest fast food chain. It held over 50 percent of the U.S market in terms of sales and ended 1995 with over 9000 restaurants worldwide. KFC opened 234 new restaurants in 1995 and operated in the 68 countries. One of the first fast food chains to international during the late 1960’s, KFC had developed one of the world’s most recognizable brands. Despite of the KFC’s past success in the U.S market, much of the KFC’s growth was driven by its international operations, which accounted for 94 percent of all KFC restaurants built in 1994 and for 100 percent of the increase in 1995. Domestically the restaurant count dropped by seven restaurants because of unit closures, intense competition among the largest fast food competitors resulted in a number of obstacles to further expansion in the U.S market. Expansion of free standing restaurants was particularly difficult. Fewer sites were available for new construction and those sites, because of their increase cost, were driving profit margins down. However the most critical or major issue of this case in the future will be their ability to handle changes. Their system is older, in terms of facilities and product form, and their attitudes still don’t reflect the realities of their changing business environment. One on the great challenges at KFC is that there is a lot that needs fixing and the...
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