Nando's MILITARY

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Nando’s Group Holdings Limited (NGHL; company number 06451677) is an active UK private company, incorporated on 12 December 2007, with SIC 70100 (“activities of head offices”), a registered office in London, accounts made up to 23 February 2025, and a latest confirmation statement dated 30 November 2025.^{1, 2}

No public evidence identified of a contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, defence-directory listing, procurement entry, or official announcement linking Nando’s or NGHL to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body.^{3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}

The current Israel Ministry of Defense homepage and the IDF Food Array page were reviewed as official contextual sources; neither identifies Nando’s as a supplier.^{8, 9}

SIBAT describes its Defence and HLS Directory as covering more than 200 Israeli defence industries in nine categories; no Nando’s listing was identified in the bounded research record.¹⁰ This is not evidence concerning non-public procurement or other directory editions.¹⁰

The bounded document review found no Nando’s mention in the reviewed UN, OHCHR, PAX, and Al-Haq materials, which is a document-scoped finding rather than proof that non-public or unreviewed procurement records do not exist.^{4, 5, 6, 7}

A secondary Israeli public-budget database lists an entity styled “Nando’s Chickenland (Israel) Ltd.,” but no official corporate extract, ownership information, operating address, current relationship to NGHL, or defence contract was obtained.¹¹ A second secondary registry-data service reports the same company number, 511589905, and an “active” status while reporting a last annual report in 2004; without an official extract, this remains an unresolved entity-resolution lead rather than evidence of group or security activity.¹²

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Nando’s describes itself as a privately held restaurant and franchise business, with franchises offered only in South Africa and Australia.³ Its current country page lists restaurant markets rather than defence or industrial products.¹³

No public evidence identified of tactical, ruggedised, military-specified, defence-grade, or other dual-use Nando’s product lines, or of sales of such products to Israeli security end users.^{3, 13}

No public evidence identified of export-licence applications, end-user certificates, export-control determinations, or licence reviews concerning Nando’s sales to Israeli defence or security bodies.^{3, 14}

The UK’s February 2026 Israel export-control publication reports aggregate licence counts and categories rather than licence-holder names; it therefore cannot substantiate a licence relationship with Nando’s.¹⁴

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of Nando’s equipment, vehicles, machinery, construction, engineering, demolition, barrier, checkpoint, detention-facility, military-installation, or settlement-infrastructure work in the occupied Palestinian territory or Golan Heights.^{4, 5, 7}

The reviewed UN and OHCHR materials did not name Nando’s, and the finding is limited to the specific documents examined.^{4, 5} The specified full-text checks likewise found no Nando’s mention in the reviewed PAX, Al-Haq, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Who Profits, BankTrack, KLP, and BDS materials; this is document-scoped and does not establish database-wide absence.^{4, 5, 6, 7, 15}

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s 2023 West Bank franchising guide names KFC, Pizza Hut, Popeyes, Domino’s, Hardee’s, and Pizza Inn as six fast-food chains operating in the West Bank and does not list Nando’s.¹⁶ This is a source-scoped observation rather than evidence of historic non-operation.¹⁶

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Nando’s supplying components, materials, manufacturing services, technology, or jointly developed products to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.^{3, 6}

The reviewed PAX report did not name Nando’s in its discussion of companies arming Israel and their financiers.⁶ This finding is limited to that document.⁶

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Nando’s providing catering, transport, freight, port handling, facilities, waste, fuel, telecommunications, or other base-support services to Israeli military bases, detention centres, security installations, or arms shipments.^{3, 8}

The IDF describes its Food Array as responsible for food procurement, storage, distribution, and kitchen operations, but the cited page does not identify Nando’s as a supplier.⁸

A 1994 Telfed Magazine report states that Daniel Brozin held the franchise for the first Israeli Nando’s outlet in Herzliya, describing a civilian restaurant franchise and not a military or security-service relationship.¹⁷

A 2002 Telfed Magazine article listed civilian Israeli restaurant locations in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Ra’anana, Kfar Vitkin, Haifa, and Acco, but did not document services to military bases, settlements, or security installations.¹⁸

Nando’s current official world page lists 21 operating markets and does not list Israel.¹³ This supports only Israel’s absence from that current corporate country list; it does not establish the legal status of every historical Israeli entity or exclude non-restaurant commercial relationships.¹³

The historical franchise sources do not establish the franchise’s later ownership chain, closure date, current status, settlement footprint, or relationship to military end users.^{17, 18}

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Nando’s manufacturing or supplying weapons, munitions, precursor materials, lethal platforms, missile-defence systems, or critical military sub-systems.^{3, 6}

Nando’s publicly describes restaurant and franchise operations rather than weapons, aerospace, defence-manufacturing, or military-platform activities.^{19, 3, 13}

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of export-licence grants, denials, refusals, suspensions, sanctions enforcement, arms-embargo investigations, or judicial proceedings concerning a Nando’s defence-supply relationship with Israel.^{3, 14}

The UK’s February 2026 publication reports 203 non-suspended extant military licences involving Israel at 28 February 2026 and describes suspension or amendment of specified licences from September 2024, but does not identify Nando’s as a licence holder or exporter.¹⁴

Nando’s states that its FY2026 UK tax strategy applies to NGHL and all UK subsidiaries, with final oversight and responsibility held by the NGHL Board.²⁰ The FY2025 strategy likewise applies to NGHL and all UK subsidiaries and describes worldwide taxes for which the group is responsible.²¹

Companies House records Leslie Perlman as NGHL’s sole active person with significant control, holding 75% or more voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.²²

Companies House records current NGHL directors Robert Adrian Graham ’t Hooft, Charles Francis Luyckx, Matthew Edward Bennison, Robert Stephen Papps, Leslie Perlman, and Graham Denis Allan, who was appointed on 6 February 2026.²³

NGHL’s filed accounts for the year ended 23 February 2025 identify L. Perlman SECS as its immediate and ultimate parent and controlling party.²⁴ L. Perlman SECS’s 2010 Luxembourg statutes record Leslie Perlman as general partner with five unlimited partnership interests and Yellowwoods Holdings S.a r.l. as limited partner with 49,995 limited interests; Yellowwoods Holdings’ founding statutes record the Taro III Trust as its sole shareholder at formation.^{25, 26} These records establish the disclosed legal architecture, but not the trust’s current beneficiaries or a connection between NGHL, those vehicles, its recorded directors, and Israeli defence entities or security forces.^{24, 25, 26, 27}

Companies House records a reported control chain at the “75% or more” threshold from NGHL through Nando’s Group Limited, Nando’s Finance Limited, Nando’s Chickenland Limited, and Nando’s Chicken Limited, with Nando’s Limited also recorded as controlled by NGHL.^{28, 29, 30, 31, 32} This is a corporate-register control map, not proof that these are the group’s only subsidiaries or of 100% ownership at each level.^{28, 29, 30, 31, 32}

Nando’s Australia’s 2022 modern-slavery statement identifies NGHL as the ultimate parent of its Australian entities and identifies Nando’s New Zealand Limited and NNZ Restaurants Limited as group subsidiaries; it does not document Israeli defence activity.¹⁹

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The reviewed UN Special Rapporteur report, OHCHR settlement-business database update, PAX report, Al-Haq report, BDS guide, and other document-scoped materials did not identify Nando’s in the checks described in the research memo.^{4, 5, 6, 7, 15}

The BDS guide explains its target-selection criteria and lists named consumer, organic-boycott, and pressure targets; Nando’s is not named on that webpage.¹⁵ This does not establish that no other organisation has ever called for a boycott.¹⁵

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, exclusion, NGO investigation, or institutional-investor decision specifically grounded in alleged Nando’s Israeli defence-sector activity.^{3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15}

No public evidence identified of a Nando’s policy statement, military-leave or reservist-pay policy, charitable matching programme for IDF-linked bodies, shareholder resolution, employee letter, or post-2024 continuation decision connected to Israeli defence activity.^{3, 13}

Because no verified defence-, security-, or settlement-linked activity was identified in the retrieved record, no post-2024 continuation of such activity can be documented from that record.^{3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 13}