Brands, told investors it would move about 100 employees from its corporate office in Louisville, Kentucky, more than 800 miles to the city of Plano in Texas, where the group’s Pizza Hut chain is headquartered.
KFC, the fast food chain previously known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, has come in for some heat after announcing plans to move its corporate headquarters from the state after which it is named to Texas.
The corporate move takes KFC away from its home state, where its founder, “Colonel” Harland Sanders, – whose face is still immortalised on the brand’s logo – began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant outside the city of Corbin in 1932.
Brands will have two corporate headquarters, in Texas and in California, where its brands Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill are based.
Brands said moving KFC’s headquarters was a “strategic decision”to allow it to “foster greater collaboration among brands and employees”.
