Yum! Brands which owns the fried chicken chain KFC has announced plans to move the brand's U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas.

Churchill Downs is still waiting on approval of incentives that must get the green light first from the Louisville Metro and then from the appropriate state agencies, including the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. On Tuesday, KFC’s parent company Yum! Brands announced KFC will be moving it’s corporate headquarters from Louisville, to Plano, Texas.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake up that will relocate its U.S. corporate office to Texas, the chain's parent company said Tuesday. The KFC chain — lau

By Tom Latek Kentucky Today First, Kentucky Fried Chicken took Kentucky out of their name to become known as KFC. Now they are taking KFC out of Kentucky, as parent company Yum! Brands announced it is relocating the company headquarters from Louisville to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano,

KFC is uprooting its headquarters from its home state of Kentucky. The food chain will now be based in Plano, Texas. KFC's ties to its home state are almost a century old. Founder, Colonel Sanders started feeding travelers in Kentucky back in 1930.

In the press release, Yum! Brands Chief Executive Officer David Gibbs said this transfer will benefit the brand in the near future.

KFC's corporate staff will relocate from the brand's headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, Yum says.

KFC is shifting its US headquarters from Kentucky to Texas. KFC's parent company, Yum Brands, said in a press release on Tuesday that the group would designate two brand headquarters in the US: one in Plano,

KFC will be moving its longtime headquarters from Kentucky, the only home its ever known, to Plano, Texas, the company announced on Tuesday.

About 100 KFC U.S. employees will be required to relocate over the next six months. The relocation is part of Yum’s broader plan to have two corporate headquarters: one in Plano

KFC Yum! Brands has announced it is moving 100 jobs out of Louisville and relocating its KFC U.S. corporate offices to Plano, Texas.

Yum! Brands said it will consolidate its US offices, relocating about 200 corporate workers as a result. The company’s two main locations will be in Plano, Texas, and Irvine, California, according to a statement Tuesday.