Australia

It was just last week that Souvlakihut was placed into administration, catching the industry and many franchisees by surprise. Like in the form of a white knight Daryl McCormack, ex CEO of Video Ezy has come to the rescue.

Aussie cricketers Nathan Bracken, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood were on hand to support the cause and officially launch the initiative, along with McGrath Foundation Managing Director Kylea Tink, and KFC Chief Marketing Officer Nikki Lawson.

QSR Media was tipped off by a disgruntled franchisee a couple of weeks ago about a potential sale of the Souvlakihut brand, and a lack of information being provided to franchisee's. We followed up and were told by their PR agency that there was no sale pending. It now turns out that the company has gone into voluntary Administration, and a private equity buyer has been identified, and is awaiting a final settlement.

After a thorough 3 month tender process, Clemenger BBDO is appointed as Hungry Jack's new creative agency, effective January 2011.

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The pizza chain’s latest line of premium pizzas now account for 5% of all sales after just two weeks of being on the market.

KFC will travel 4000 kilometres as they launch the "KFC Pass the Pink Bucket" tour. 

QSR Media is expanding to Asia with an office in HK and Singapore to report on the regions growing food service industry.

According to Aktiv group, 10 franchised stores of Western Australian brand The Kebab Co.  is now part of Aktiv franchising group. All 10 franchised stores are located in major shopping centres in WA.

Compared to a national online ordering sales average of 15 per cent, perth pizza lovers are more likely to order a pizza online compared to other Australians with almost a quarter of Eagle Boys store sales in the city now coming from online orders.

Sumo Salad has just opened up 3 more stores, Toowoomba, Adelaide Central Plaza and Belconnen taking their total number of stores to over 80. There’s also the addition of two new salads to the Favourites Range, The 97% Fat Free Cajun Prawn & Beef & Haloumi salad.

An order of 350 boxes of hot noodles for a massive Christmas function for a well known major Rockhampton & Gladstone company came through this week. Wok Me's CQ boss Simon Gibson could not believe this record-breaking order. 

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The fast food chain is continuing its cricket sponsorship and giving cricket clubs the chance to take some much needed funds back to their clubhouse.

Find out what Pacific Retail Management plans are for the future and what they see as the big challenges the industry faces in 2012.

QSR Media has a closer look at Trios Wraps re-branding. David Elia, MD, Trios Wraps talks to Justine Charlton.