On the 30th anniversary, KFC and Huawei combine launching limited edition smartphone

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) celebrated its 30th anniversary of operations in China by releasing a limited edition cell phone it had worked together with Chinese cell phone producer Huawei.

KFC made the declaration about the association with Huawei in a post on its Weibo account on Friday. A going with video on KFC’s Weibo account highlighted how far the two brands had come since their unassuming beginnings when they initially opened for business in 1987.

About KFC

limited-edition-smartphones

KFC opened its first eatery in China a short separation from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing in November 1987. Today, Yum China, which reckons as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in its stable of brands, has more than 7,600 restaurants in the nation.

About Huawei

Huawei— a broadcast communications hardware organization best known for its cell phones— was established in 1987 in Shenzhen. The organization positioned third as far as the piece of the overall industry in the worldwide cell phone advertising in the last quarter of 2016, as per 2016.

Released in tribute to KFC’s thirty-year development in China, the memorial variant of the brilliant red KFC Huawei 7 Plus cell phone came finish with a logo of Colonel Sanders and a lot of pre-introduced complimentary gifts.

limited-edition-smartphones

The limited versions model includes KFC’s versatile application and 100,000 “K dollars” (virtual credits on the KFC application in China). The mobile likewise gave access to K-music- KFC’s new jukebox work accessible on the KFC application, exchange magazine Campaign Asia said.

A sum of 5,000 units of the limited version mobile will be released, KFC said on Weibo. The handsets cost 1,099 yuan ($161.91) per unit and will be available to be purchased on the fast food organization’s Tmall store from July 13.

Quarterly deals at Yum China came in underneath expert estimates in the second quarter this year, with the poorer-than-anticipated execution of the organization’s Pizza Hut mark faulted.