SWOT analysis of KFC
December 22, 2017 By Hitesh Bhasin Tagged With: SWOT articles
KFC is known to be a favorite of meat and chicken lovers, and this segmentation is the main success factor of KFC. However, due to its franchise business model, the firm faces a lot of competition from other franchise’s like McDonalds and Burger kind. Besides burgers, indirect competition in the form of Italian and fast food is ever present. Some of these competitors are Pizza hut and Domino’s. Let us have an internal analysis of KFC to know what strategic initiatives can be taken by the company.
Strength in the SWOT analysis of KFC
1. Global Presence: KFC is the world’s 2nd largest restaurant chain with more than 18,000 KFC outlets in 120 countries and territories around the world. It is market leader in Non-veg food joints categories in majority of countries it is in.
2. Strong parent company: It is the subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell . Yum! Brands, the fortune 500 company, is one of the world’s largest fast food restaurant companies in terms of system units—more than 41,000 restaurants around the world in over 125 countries & it help individual brands in optimizing its resource usage.
3. Veg & Non veg offerings: Although KFC is known for its finger licking Chickens menu but recently they ventured out in Vegetarian category which is helping them in increasing their business & attracting both veg & non-veg preferred customers.
4. Secret Recipe: Sanders’ Original Recipe of “11 herbs and spices” is one of the most famous trade secrets in the catering industry. A copy of the recipe, signed by Sanders, is held inside a safe inside a vault in KFC’s Louisville headquarters, along with eleven vials containing the herbs and spices