KFC UK&I – A £1bn Chicken Sensation’s Agile Journey

A new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours. The global chicken restaurant brand, with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation, all started more than 75 years ago, with one humble cook, Colonel Harland Sanders. Colonel Sanders’ scratched out his finger-lickin’ good recipe, containing 11 secret herbs and spices, on the back of his kitchen door.

This recipe for success is still followed today, with cooks breading and freshly preparing the chicken by hand in more than 27,000 restaurants, in over 145 countries and territories around the world.

KFC was founded on values such as hard work, hospitality and generosity, that still live large in the brand today. Firmly grounded in its heritage but looking forward to the future, KFC is always evolving to make it easier for guests to enjoy its chicken, both through digital innovation and building new restaurants with its franchise partners.

The company is committed to growing responsibly through commitments such as its 2025 global plastic packaging goal, the realisation of its 2018 commitment to stop purchasing chicken raised with antibiotics important to human medicine in the US, and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 80 million pounds of food to local communities around the world.

From KFC’s world-famous Original Recipe to its new signature flavours and formats, the company mission is ‘to make the most craveable, Colonel-inspired chicken in the world, the right way’ and to continue to be one of the fastest-growing retail brands globally, in emerging and developed markets alike’