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Americana Group

Emirati food company

Field	Value
name	Americana Group
logo	Americana Group Logo.svg
logo_size	250px
type	Private
foundation
location	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
key_people	Mohamed Alabbar (chairman)
Kesri Kapur (CEO)
industry	Restaurant chain franchising
packaged goods manufacturing
products	QSR, casual & fine dining, frozen and canned food, dairy products, snacks, bottled water
parent	Public Investment Fund (50 percent)
Adeptio AD Investments
homepage

Kesri Kapur (CEO) packaged goods manufacturing Adeptio AD Investments

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.

History

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

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.

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.

Operating countries

Americana currently has 23 restaurant chains in 13 countries.

Africa

Egypt
Morocco Asia
Bahrain
Iraq
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Iran (plan to open)
Syrian Opposition Syria (plan to open)

References

(29 September 2022). "Emaar's Mohamed Alabbar to gain $4bn from Americana Group sale". Arabian Business.
(2013). "East Meets West". [[Emerald Group Publishing]].
"Americana Group Inc".
(7 June 2022). "Middle East Pizza Hut Operator Adds Morgan Stanley to IPO". bloomberg.com.
Cornish, Chloe. (2025-08-29). "Middle East KFC operator Americana to move away from US brands after Gaza boycott".

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