The story
In 1970, Americana first opened Wimpy in Kuwait. During the 1970s, Americana Meat was introduced in the market which included chicken nuggets, hamburgers, chicken fillets and more.
Americana Group's main lines of business are operating food and beverage outlets, and manufacturing of food products. It has a network of over 2,465 outlets. The group’s network encompasses several brands in the quick service, casual dining and fine dining categories, some of which are KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, T.G.I. Friday's, Costa Coffee, Baskin Robbins, Krispy Kreme, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse.
In 2025, Americana announced plans to diversify away from US brands after full year net profits at the company fell by nearly 40 per cent to $159mn in 2024, due to local boycotts of brands like KFC and Krispy Kreme over the US support for Israel during Gaza war.
From Wikipedia’s article on Americana Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4