Americana Group

UAE food company

Americana Group

Company type| Private
Industry| Restaurant chain franchising
packaged goods manufacturing
Founded| 1964; 60 years ago (1964)
Headquarters| Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Key people

| Mohamed Alabbar (chairman)
Kesri Kapur (CEO)
Products| QSR, 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

The Kuwait Food Company, doing business as the Americana Group (Arabic: امريكانا), is a Kuwaiti 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.

Until 2016, it was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.[1]

## History

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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]

## Operating countries

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Americana currently has 23 restaurant chains in 13 countries.

Africa

* Egypt
* Morocco

Asia

* Bahrain
* Iraq
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Lebanon
* Oman
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Syria
* UAE
* Iran (plan to open)

## References

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1. ^ a b c "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.