The International Franchise Association’s (IFA) Franchise Education & Research Foundation announced it is accepting nominations for the 2016 Franchising Gives Back Annual Awards. In partnership with Roark Capital Group, the second annual awards program salutes the best, most innovative community leaders and charitable programs nationwide. Winners will be honored at an awards celebration and dinner […]

While Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s continue to push the envelope stateside with new menu items like the Steakhouse Thickburger and newly nabbed celebrity Chef Michael Voltaggio to promote it, their parent company’s international division is even busier. Last year was the fifth year in a row that CKE Restaurants opened more international locations (100 in […]

The International Franchise Association (IFA) Educational Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural Franchising Gives Back Awards, who were honored at a special event yesterday in Washington, D.C. The IFA Educational Foundation recognized five Gold Winners at the Franchising Gives Back Celebration & Awards Dinner, including: Spirit of Franchising Award—Denny’s. In 2014, nearly 1,400 Denny’s […]

KDM P.O.P. Solutions Group announces that they will again be on board as a primary, Gold Level vendor sponsor for CKE Restaurant’s annual Stars for Heroes (SFH) program. The fifth annual fundraising campaign kicked off in-store this week at participating Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. locations throughout the U.S. and will run until June 16, 2015. […]

CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc. (CKE), parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., has reached a significant milestone with the opening of its 300th restaurant in the Middle East. The new Hardee’s location will open April 21, 2015, in Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, King Fahd Street, Saudi Arabia, and will be operated by Al-Ahlia Restaurant Company, a subsidiary of longtime […]

CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, has reached a significant milestone with the opening of its 600th international restaurant location on June 23 in Kazakhstan by franchisee The Caspian International Restaurants Company, a division of Kuwait Food Company. Aggressive global expansion goals include 1,000 international Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s locations by 2017. “Around […]

CKE Inc., parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, announced that an affiliate of Roark Capital Group entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in the company with senior management retaining a minority stake. CKE is currently majority-owned and controlled by investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC. Terms of the […]

It was a dark day in September when Britain’s National Pig Association broke the news that pork products—including everyone’s favorite, bacon—would soon become a luxury because of dwindling pork supplies from the ongoing drought in the U.S. Though consumers around the world were left clutching their pearls, it was much ado about nothing, as economists […]

CKE Restaurants, Inc., announced today its intent to develop new Hardee’s restaurants throughout the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The company is seeking to expand its Charlotte footprint over the next several years and sees the potential to develop more than 35 new restaurants in the market. Hardee’s operates 51 locations within the Charlotte metro area. Actively seeking new […]

CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s brands, today announced it has joined with other quick-serve restaurant and convenience store chains in filling an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve regarding unjustifiably high swipe fees charged by major banks. CKE and the other chains strongly support the pending lawsuit, […]

With franchisees still struggling to access the capital necessary to open new stores and run their operations, franchisors are getting help from an online service to pair operators with suitable lenders. David Nayor, co-president and chief operating officer of BoeFly.com, says the service was concocted after he and some of his former-lender colleagues saw “a […]

CKE Restaurants Inc. will present and exhibit at the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 32nd-Annual National Convention & Business Expo in Miami on September 18-21. More than 3,000 people are expected at this annual event honoring Hispanic entrepreneurship in America. The convention is the country’s largest networking venue for Hispanic businesses and Fortune 1000 […]

Daniel E. Ponder Jr., Jerold H. Rubinstein, and C. Thomas Thompson appointed to company’s board of directors.

CKE opens first of at least 25 Carl’s Jr. units that are set to open in Vietnam in next six years.

After previously announcing its sale to Thomas H. Lee Partners, the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s will now be acquired by an affiliate of Apollo Management LP for about $1 billion.

QSR Automations’ technology solution rolls out at all Hardee’s, tests at Carl’s Jr.

Acquisition by Thomas H. Lee Partners includes the assumption of approximately $309 million of net debt.

New franchise agreement between CKE and the Mesa Group will develop Carl’s Jr. bbrand throughout the nation; first scheduled to open in Ho Chi Minh City in April.

Two franchisees, Frontera Star Foods and Burger Barons, to open units over the next nine years.