Home GCC Kuwait Kuwait’s Americana Q1 Profit Rises 10.4% The company, a franchise operator of restaurants including KFC and Pizza Hut, made $64.4 million in the first three months of 2014. by Reuters May 11, 2014 Kuwait Food Co, which sells goods under the Americana brand name, reported a 10.4 per cent increase in first-quarter net profit on Sunday. The company made KD18.1 million ($64.4 million) in the first three months of 2014, up from KD16.4 million in the corresponding period of 2013, it said in a bourse filing. Americana, 66.8 per cent owned by the Kharafi family, one of the largest merchant families in the Gulf Arab state, could be sold after the Kharafis hired investment bank Rothschild to explore a sale, sources told Reuters last month. The chairman of Americana, Marzouk al-Kharafi, later said he wasn’t aware of any sale process by the majority shareholder. Founded in 1964 in Kuwait, Americana is a publicly traded group of companies based in the Middle East and North Africa, with interests in restaurants and packaged food. The company is a franchise operator of restaurants including KFC and Pizza Hut, owned by Yum Brands, and Red Lobster and Olive Garden, owned by Darden Restaurants. Americana also manufactures California Garden beans and Farm Frites frozen vegetables. 0 Comments