A nearly week-long delivery crisis that has resulted in the closure of about two-thirds of KFC's 900 stores in the UK followed a change in its distributor from South African company Bidvest Logistics to DHL. But the debacle offers no advantage for local chicken producers despite their capacity to step in and help. Local producers, who supply KFC's operations in South Africa, said they would be able to meet any chicken shortfall experienced by KFC in the UK were it not for the protectionist policies in place. Marthinus Stander, CEO of Country Bird, the third-largest chicken producer in the country, this week said local producers are prevented from exporting to the UK, based on sanitary measures which are used as non-tariff barriers. "A few local producers can indeed supply based on our capability to supply KFC locally. "We also know that we produce a carcass cheaper than any EU- or UK-based supplier. However, the non-tariff barriers prevent us," Stander said. KFC's UK operations are ...
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