In 1973, a state study found a new airport wasn't needed for Louisville. We're seeing repercussions now as KFC takes wing to Texas.

“This strategic decision will involve relocating KFC U.S. corporate office employees currently in Louisville, Kentucky, to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano, Texas. In addition, U.S.-based remote employees will be asked to relocate to the campus where their work happens,” Yum! Brands said in a news release.

KFC, formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is leaving its birthplace of Kentucky and finding a new home in Texas. The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum! Brands, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 18, that it will be moving its headquarters to Plano, a suburb of Dallas, to join the brand’s sister company Pizza Hut Global.

The brand formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken is ready to leave its home state and head west for good. KFC Is Leaving Kentucky Yum! Brands, the parent company of restaurant KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut,

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Kentucky Fried Chicken is about to leave Kentucky as its owner, Yum! Brands said it would be leaving the state and opening two new brand headquarters in other states.

KFC, formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is officially leaving the state it’s named after. The fast food chain’s parent company, Yum! Brands, announced on Tuesday that KFC will be moving its corporate headquarters to Texas. Specifically, the Dallas suburb of Plano, where KFC will join sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake-up announced Tuesday by its parent company that will relocate the chain’s U.S. corporate office to Texas.

KFC stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken — everyone knows this, even chicken eaters outside of the United States. But the chain, long based in Kentucky, is relocating after 95 years of making chicken with the Southern state as its home base (KFC's headquarters is in Louisville).

KFC, formerly named Kentucky Fried Chicken, disappointed state leaders when it announced it was moving to Texas.

KFC, the fast food chain formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is leaving the state where it all began. The chicken chain's parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC's corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut's offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.