Kfc Advertisement Affect on Its Business

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Fast-food WAR - How the Colonel takes over the World * Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), through out many years, has become the international largest fast-food chicken operator, developer, and franchiser. This success comes as the result of innovative marketing strategies KFC has applied, epecially in non – Western countries where its type of fast-food is not common. This paper aims to examine clearly the creativeness throughout KFC development through two of the campaigns led to its recent fame: “Kentucky for Christmas” in Japan (1974) and “We do chicken right” in China (early 1980s). * Creativity definitions and theories have been well clarified and developed in many books and journals over the world. However, people tend to follow the rules created to avoid making mistakes and disrupt their business (Koestler, 1964), which is no longer “creative”. KFC’s casestudies below are going to show out the truly action of “creativity” especially in global term of adsvertising and how its effects. Campaign Analyses i. "Kentucky for Christmas" (1974) Together with other iconic characters such as Jesus and Santa Claus of the Christians, the Three Kings of Portuguese or even the Devils in some cultures (Dine, 2011), Colonel Sanders is considered as a famous representative of Christmas especially for Japan. It is easy to find long lines of Japanese waiting before the KFC stores as well as millions of them pre-order KFC meals set to make sure their Christmas dinner can be completedly "traditional" (Cohan, 2010). This is thanked to the "Kentucky for Christmas" (also known as "Kurisumasu ni wa Kentakkii") campaign held by KFC back in 1974. This campaign was created to supply the Western-based community in Japan so they can celebrated the holiday even without turkey (Cohan, 2010). However, in the end, the campaign was hugely succeed in bringing Christmas

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