Nando's Australia
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Fast food restaurants
The first Nando's store in Australia opened in 1990. Today there's about 300 stores around Australia and New Zealand, the majority of which are franchised.
Company Ownership
Nando's Australia Pty Ltd | AUS | website | ||||
Nando's Group Holdings Ltd ![]() owns 100% of Nando's Australia Pty Ltd |
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Fast food restaurants Nando's (short for Fernando, one of the founders) was founded at the end of 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
Company Assessment
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Nando's Australia Pty Ltd | ||||
Signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a voluntary agreement to encourage waste minimisation.
Source: Australian Packaging Covenant (2020)
Nando's use chicken from Australian RSPCA Approved farms for all the chicken on its menu. These farms raise their birds in an enriched barn environment. Chickens enjoy space to move, good lighting and can perch, dustbathe and forage.
Source: RSPCA (2020) |
The Nandos Fix Gum ad was voted Australia's worst television commercial of 2007, measured by the 300 complaints received by the Advertising Standards Board.
Source: Ads for Adults (2007)
This company is listed on the RSPCA Australia website as 'cage-free and proud', signifying a commitment to source 100% cage-free eggs. Essentially cage-free means barn laid, which is better than cage eggs, but still much worse than free-range or organic eggs when it comes to animal welfare.
Source: RSPCA Australia (2020)
According to data released by the Australian Tax Office in Dec 2018, this company was one of 2,159 local and foreign-based companies that paid no tax in Australia in 2016-17. Please note however that companies pay income tax on profits, not revenue (total income). While some companies use tax havens and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of tax in Australia, other companies that paid no tax have perfectly legitimate reasons.
Source: ATO (2018) |
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Nando's Group Holdings Ltd | ||||
The Pecking Order is a 2018 report by World Animal Protection which grades global fast food giants against three criteria for chicken welfare: policies, targets and reporting. This company's overall chicken welfare rating is 'very poor'.
Source: World Animal Protection (2018)
This company received a score of 2 out of a possible total of 24 in the WWF Soy Scorecard 2016, which rates companies on their use of responsible soy, grown without damaging the environment and harming people.
Source: WWF Soy Scorecard 2023 (2016) |
Nando's is known for its humorous but often controversial adverts in South Africa, Australia and other countries.
Source: Wikipedia (2011) |
Company Details
Type | Wholly-owned subsidiary |
Revenue | $160 million in 2009 |
Employees | 410 in 2019 |
Contact Details
Address | 453 Lygon St, East Brunswick, VIC, 3057, Australia |
Phone | 03 9385 0777 |
Fax | 03 9384 0888 |
reception@nandos.com.au | |
Website | www.nandos.com.au |