SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A fried chicken franchise, bhc chicken, has been under fire for raising prices of its menu items, while changing part of its chicken ingredients to cheaper ones from Brazil, according to a consumer advocacy group Monday. The franchise had used chicken produced in South Korea but decided to change [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Bhc Group said Thursday it has opened its first bhc chicken store in Singapore as part of its efforts to break into the Southeast Asian market. The store opened at a shopping complex in Marina Square located on Marina Bay, a popular tourist spot, on Wednesday. The store plans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Bhc Group said Monday it has opened its first bhc chicken restaurant in North America as part of the overseas expansion of South Korea’s largest chicken franchise by sales. The new restaurant, located on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, will be directly operated by the company and be used [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s second-largest chicken franchise by sales, bhc Group, said Tuesday it will open its third store in Malaysia next month as part of its strategy to expand into Southeast Asia. The new restaurant, which is set to open in a shopping complex located inside the capital of Kuala [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – BHC Co., a local fried chicken franchise operator, said Friday it will invest 17 billion won (US$16 million) to create jobs for young people as the country struggles with high youth unemployment rate. The company said it will lend 15 billion won to young people to open branches of the fried chicken franchise free of interest and spend another 2 billion won in supporting their employment. BHC said it will lend 50 million to 200 million won per store with a 10-year [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of South Korea’s major chicken franchises rose in 2017 from the previous year amid a growing number of affiliated outlets going out of business due to intense competition, industry sources said Tuesday. Fried chicken and beer, called “chimaek” in South Korea, is one of the most popular foods [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government dismantling an attempt by a leading chicken franchise to raise the cost of its meals last year, the matter appears to have maintained relevance, with the industry once more abuzz with discussion of what some believe is a necessary price adjustment. The industry is arguing that [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The mundane-looking fried chicken has transformed into a luxury three-course cuisine of ricotta cheese salad, green fried chicken breast and cheeseballs. It came back with actress Jun Ji-hyun, also known as Gianna Jun, of “My Lover from the Star” fame who starred in a commercial of the newly introduced [...]