KFC is looking to learn from the success of Taco Bell to boost its business. It’s also dropping prices, and has brought back its famous Colonel Sanders character.
KFC teamed up with Australian dental care brand Hismile to launch a limited-edition $13 fried chicken-flavoured toothpaste. It sold out within 48 hours.
This is the second outlet targeted by mobs this week in an apparent show of solidarity with Palestinians, in response to US and Israeli actions in Gaza.
KFC has become the first major fast food chain to add a plant-based chicken product to its menu. Introduced in US on 10 January, it ‘tastes like fried chicken' but is made from plants.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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