Americana Group

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Americana Group
Company type Private
Industry Restaurant chain franchising
packaged goods manufacturing
Founded1964;61 years ago (1964)
Headquarters Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Key people
 Mohamed Alabbar (chairman)
Kesri Kapur (CEO)
ProductsQSR, casual & fine dining, frozen and canned food, dairy products, snacks, bottled water
Parent Public Investment Fund (50 percent) [1]
Adeptio AD Investments
Website www.americanarestaurants.com

Americana is a food company headquartered in Sharjah City. It operates food products throughout the Middle East and North Africa region, Americana Group is the largest integrated food company in Middle East.

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History

In 1970, Americana first opened Wimpy in Kuwait. [2] During the 1970s, Americana Meat was introduced in the market which included chicken nuggets, hamburgers, chicken fillets and more. [3]

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. [4] [1]

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. [5]

Operating countries

Americana currently has 23 restaurant chains in 13 countries.

Africa

Asia

References

  1. 1 2 "Emaar's Mohamed Alabbar to gain $4bn from Americana Group sale". Arabian Business. 29 September 2022.
  2. ↑ East Meets West. Emerald Group Publishing. 2013. p. 129. ISBN   9781781904138.
  3. ↑ "Americana Group Inc". bloomberg.com.
  4. ↑ Narayanan, Archana; Fioretti, Julia; Parasie, Nicholas (7 June 2022). "Middle East Pizza Hut Operator Adds Morgan Stanley to IPO". bloomberg.com.
  5. ↑ Cornish, Chloe (2025-08-29). "Middle East KFC operator Americana to move away from US brands after Gaza boycott". Financial Times. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
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