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• Boston Market Joins Latest Round of KFC and El Pollo Loco Chicken Fight

  BNET - 2009-10-28

  KFC did its third grilled chicken giveaway on Monday. It was more successful than the first round -- stores didn't run out of supplies like they did in May, when a partnership with Oprah Winfrey wound up generating so much publicity that KFC couldn't keep up and had to issue...

  Tags: KFC Corp., El Pollo Loco, Business Structures, Food & Beverage, Finance, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Yum says soft sales to continue in 4Q

  BNET - 2009-10-07

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2009) Yum! Brands Inc., fresh on reporting an 18-percent, year-to-year jump in third-quarter profit on the strength of its overseas operations, said the current fourth quarter will be particularly hard for its U.S. business as sales will remain soft and benefits from lower commodities will trail off....

  Tags: sales, KFC Corp., Pizza Hut, Taco Bell Corp.

• KFC Gets Attention Using Chicken for Bread in 'Double Down'

  BNET - 2009-08-28

  Can this sandwich possibly have fewer than 600 calories? According to KFC, it does. The new Double Down, which KFC is testing in Rhode Island and Nebraska, uses two pieces of fried chicken instead of bread, with bacon and cheese in between them. I'm not sure how...

  Tags: Calorie, KFC Corp., Sandwich, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Katherine Glover

• KFC's 'Double Down' Sandwich: The Mother of All Viral Campaigns?

  BNET - 2009-08-26

  Health experts are clutching their chests. The Double Down marries bacon, two types of cheese and the Colonel's special sauce, then wraps it between two pieces of fried chicken -- who needs a bun? A KFC marketer's dream or nightmare? by Sean Silverthorne

  Tags: KFC Corp., Health Care, Health Expert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Sean Silverthorne

• Google Unveils 'Next Generation' Search

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  In a blog post that caught most of the tech world off guard, Google engineers revealed that the company has been working for months on a "next generation" search architecture dubbed Caffeine. function showDescimg{ifelementelement.innerHTML = img.alt;}; The engineers provided few technical details about Caffeine—not surprising given that search technology is...

  Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.

• Food Roundup: Beef and Milk Recalls, Compost Law in San Francisco, and More

  BNET - 2009-06-30

  JBS expands beef recall -- JBS Swift Beef is recalling an additional 380,000 pounds of ground beef due to concerns about E. coli contamination. Originally the company had only recalled 41,000 pounds. The tainted beef carries the highest risk level, meaning the product could potentially cause "serious, adverse health consequences...

  Tags: Food, Marketing, KFC Corp., JBS, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: Cookie Dough Recall, Slim Jim to Reopen, and More

  BNET - 2009-06-19

  Nestle recalls Toll House cookie dough products -- Several dozen cases of E. coli have been linked to Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products, and Nestle today issued a voluntarily recall. The company says the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating the issue. About...

  Tags: Food, KFC Corp., Oprah Winfrey, Farm, Nestle S.A., Cookie, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: KFC Chicken Has Too Much Beef, Smithfield Has Too Many Pigs, and More

  BNET - 2009-06-17

  El Pollo Loco targets KFC over beef -- KFC's new grilled chicken uses a marinade that contains more than 20 ingredients, including beef flavoring, El Pollo Loco wants the world to know. KFC says this is perfectly normal, but El Pollo Loco is using the revelation as yet another opportunity...

  Tags: Food, El Pollo Loco, KFC Corp., Beverage, H1N1 Flu, Dean, Papa John, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: McCafe-Starbucks Battle Goes To Europe, Pringles Not Chips, And More

  BNET - 2009-05-28

  McDonald's aims to overtake Starbucks in Europe -- McDonald's is expanding its McCafe across Europe, with plans to open hundreds of new stores by the end of the year. McDonald's has been thriving in the current economy, while rival Starbucks has been closing stores and struggling to keep up profits....

  Tags: Food, KFC Corp., Procter & Gamble Co., Europe, Starbucks Corp., McDonald's Corp., Chip, Pringles, Food & Beverage, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Hardware, Katherine Glover

• El Pollo Loco Skillfully Hijacking KFC Campaigns

  BNET - 2009-05-12

  El Pollo Loco is a small chain with only 418 stores, the majority in the southwest. It is a spec of a chicken chain compared with KFC and its more than 11,000 locations world-wide. But recently the smaller chain has done an excellent job of exploiting the giant's own ad...

  Tags: El Pollo Loco, KFC Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Katherine Glover