Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is looking to open up to 70 new outlets this year across the GCC and Levante. The famous Colonel Sanders brand opened its first store in the area in Kuwait in 1974 and has gone on to become one of the market leaders, with 774 stores currently in operation in the MENA region – this includes 558 stores in the GCC, 220 in Saudi Arabia, 151 in the UAE, 66 in Kuwait, Oman (36), Bahrain (24) and Egypt (156).
