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Nando's Australia

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Owned
ZAF
Rating
Criticism, some praise

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   email   facebook   twitter
  Nando's Group Holdings Ltd   
   owns 100% of Nando's Australia Pty Ltd  
ZAF     website   email      

Fast food restaurants

Nando's (short for Fernando, one of the founders) was founded at the end of 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Nando's Australia Pty Ltd
Environment Australian Packaging Covenant signatory
Signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a voluntary agreement to encourage waste minimisation.
Source: Australian Packaging Covenant (2020)
Animals RSPCA Approved
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)
Social Controversial advertising
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)
Animals Cage-free eggs commitment
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)
Business Ethics No tax paid in 2016/7
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)
Nando's Group Holdings Ltd
Animals Chicken welfare
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)
Environment Soy scorecard - WWF
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)
Social Controversial advertising
Nando's is known for its humorous but often controversial adverts in South Africa, Australia and other countries.
Source: Wikipedia (2011)

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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
Email reception@nandos.com.au
Website www.nandos.com.au

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