Avian flu effect on KFC sales

from NRN:

KFC faces a potential 10-percent to 20-percent decline in U.S. and European sales because of customers’ avian-flu concerns, senior executives told analysts in an Oct. 25 meeting at which plans for airing reassuring TV ads were disclosed.

KFC faces potential disruptions in customer traffic and chicken supplies to its 1,500 outlets in China because of avian flu outbreaks in four provinces there and the Chinese government’s Nov. 1 ban on poultry imports from eight neighboring countries.