Nando's POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

No public evidence identified of an official Nando’s statement addressing Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the 7 October attacks, or Palestinian or Israeli civilian harm. ^{1, 2}

No public evidence identified sufficient to establish a comparative public stance on other geopolitical or social issues, including Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, or COVID-19. ^{3, 4, 1}

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

Nando’s official global restaurant locator, accessed on 30 August 2026, states that it covers every Nando’s worldwide, presents 21 markets, and does not list Israel; this records the locator’s current presentation rather than the closure date or legal status of any historical Israeli franchise. ²

Historical reporting states that Nando’s South Africa sold the Israeli franchise and brand to Yuval Doron’s Edi Global Holdings in December 2005, when the network was reported as having 17 branches. ⁵

A March 2006 report described the Israeli network as owned by Edi Global Holdings and Management, with 12 branches and planned openings in Tel Aviv, Kfar Saba, Yavne, Modi’in, and Eilat. ⁶

In October 2007, Globes reported that Nando’s International Holdings and Nando’s Resources sought interim relief in the Tel Aviv District Court against Nando’s Israel Holdings and Yuval Doron; the reported hygiene, royalty, licensing, and trade-mark claims were allegations by the applicants rather than findings of fact at that stage. ⁷

In December 2007, Globes reported that the Tel Aviv District Court granted a temporary injunction barring Nando’s Israel Holdings and Yuval Doron from using the Nando’s brand; the accessible report does not establish the final disposition of Civil Action 2529/07 or the former franchise entity’s later status. ⁸

A 2025 Mako retrospective reported that Israeli activity closed shortly after the December 2007 injunction, but this secondary account is not a substitute for a court record or Israeli corporate-registry extract. ⁹

The supplied document review found no Nando’s mention in OHCHR’s 30 June 2023 settlement-business database update or its 26 September 2025 update; these are document-scoped results and do not establish absence from all database iterations. ^{10, 11}

The supplied document review also found no Nando’s mention in the July 2025 UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 or in Who Profits’ 2017 report on business and leisure activity in occupied West Bank settlements. ^{12, 13}

A U.S. International Trade Administration guide identified six fast-food franchises operating in the West Bank in December 2023 - KFC, Pizza Hut, Popeyes, Domino’s, Hardee’s, and Pizza Inn - and did not name Nando’s; this is list-scoped rather than a complete commercial-activity record. ¹⁴

No public evidence identified of a current Nando’s branch, franchisee, supplier, contract, intermediary, subsidiary, or service activity in an Israeli settlement, the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights. ^{2, 10, 12, 13, 14, 11}

No public evidence identified of Israel/Palestine-related legal, regulatory, parliamentary, or international-body proceedings concerning Nando’s other than the reported 2007 Israeli franchise trade-mark and licensing dispute. ^{10, 12, 11, 7, 8}

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

No public evidence identified of Nando’s HR discipline, employee litigation, union dispute, or policy enforcement concerning Israel/Palestine-related speech or symbols. ^{1, 2, 12}

No public evidence identified of Nando’s content moderation, editorial policy, app-distribution, mapping, or platform-policy conduct concerning the conflict. ^{1, 12}

No public evidence identified of public reporting or regulatory action concerning Nando’s labelling, sourcing, or categorisation of Israeli-, West Bank-, East Jerusalem-, Golan-, or settlement-origin products. ^{12, 13}

Nando’s UK’s current modern-slavery statement says that its UK and Ireland restaurants are owned and operated by Nando’s and managed by its employees; the statement does not address former Israeli operations or Israel/Palestine-related political activity. ¹⁵

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

In 2004, Globes reported a NIS 500,000 sponsorship contract between Nando’s and its Israeli representatives and Bnei Sakhnin FC for the 2004–05 season. ¹⁶

The reported Bnei Sakhnin arrangement was a commercial football sponsorship, and the article does not identify a state partnership, military programme, settlement entity, or state public-relations campaign. ¹⁶

A 2002 Telfed profile described Kenny Brozin as a joint managing director of Nando’s Israel and stated that he had previously resigned an IDF commission before working with Robbie Brozin in South Africa. ¹⁷

That biographical reference does not identify an IDF contract, donation, sponsorship, or operational relationship involving Nando’s. ¹⁷

A 2023 South African Jewish Report profile of Nando’s co-founder Robbie Brozin reported that he completed two years of army conscription and said he had not been politically minded; it did not identify the armed force, Israel/Palestine-related advocacy, or a corporate act by Nando’s. ¹⁸

No public evidence identified that Nando’s marketing uses Israeli military, defence-sector, state-security, or state-origin heritage. ^{1, 2}

No public evidence identified of Nando’s accepting Israeli state honours, hosting Israeli government officials, partnering with Israeli state academic or government institutions, or sponsoring state-backed cultural or public-relations campaigns. ^{1, 12, 11}

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

Nando’s is not named in the Palestinian BDS National Committee’s 6 December 2024 priority-target guide; this is list-scoped and does not rule out campaigns appearing elsewhere. ¹⁹

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott campaign against Nando’s with independently verifiable grounds and a documented company response. ^{13, 19}

No public evidence identified of corporate lobbying, political spending, PAC activity, anti-BDS advocacy, or leadership participation in Israel/Palestine-focused advocacy groups. ^{12, 19}

No public evidence identified of Nando’s donations or sponsorships to the IDF, Friends of the IDF, JNF/KKL, settlement entities, reservist funds, Regavim, Im Tirtzu, or military-welfare bodies. ^{12, 19}

No public evidence identified of Nando’s mobilising food, logistics, free services, infrastructure, or other corporate assets for Israeli military, government, or state-aligned NGO efforts during active conflict. ^{12, 19}

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

Nando’s Group Holdings Limited is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 12 December 2007, with SIC 70100, “activities of head offices,” and a registered office at St Marys House, 42 Vicarage Crescent, London, SW11 3LD. ³

Companies House’s current PSC register names Leslie Perlman as the sole active person with significant control of Nando’s Group Holdings Limited, reporting 75% or more voting rights, director-appointment/removal rights, South African nationality, and Luxembourg residence. ²⁰

The statutory UK control chain records Nando’s Group Holdings Limited controlling Nando’s Group Limited, which controls Nando’s Finance Limited, which in turn controls Nando’s Chickenland Limited through 75% or more share and voting rights and director-appointment/removal rights. ^{21, 22, 23}

Nando’s Chickenland Limited is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 5 February 1991 and classified for licensed restaurants and unlicensed restaurants/cafés; its latest accounts are for the year ended 23 February 2025 and its latest confirmation statement is dated 30 November 2025. ²⁴

Nando’s Group Limited is an active UK private company incorporated on 11 March 2008 with SIC 64209, “Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified”; its latest accounts are for the year ended 23 February 2025 and its latest confirmation statement is dated 30 November 2025. ⁴

Nando’s Finance Limited is an active UK private company incorporated on 6 April 2005 with SIC 64209; its register page reports accounts made up to 28 February 2025 and a confirmation statement dated 30 November 2025. ²⁵

Nando’s Group Holdings Limited filed group accounts for the year ended 23 February 2025 on 21 November 2025, and Companies House records a confirmation statement made up to 30 November 2025. ²⁶

Direct inspection of that filing identifies L. Perlman SECS as NGHL’s immediate and ultimate parent and controlling party. ²⁷ L. Perlman SECS’s 2010 Luxembourg statutes record Leslie Perlman as general partner with five unlimited 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 sole shareholder at formation. ^{28, 29} An Australian statutory instrument published in 2022 lists Leslie Perlman, L. Perlman SECS, Yellowwoods Holdings, and the Taro III Trust trustees within the same regulated ownership chain, but does not identify the trust’s beneficiaries. ³⁰

Its filing history also records a directors’ statement, solvency statement dated 12 May 2025, share-capital-reduction resolution, and statement of capital of GBP 368,000,007.28 on 22 May 2025. ²⁶

Group Holdings filed a statement of company objects and replacement memorandum and articles on 14 May 2024; the substantive text was not retrievable in the supplied research, so no conclusion is drawn about their wording or purpose. ²⁶

A current Performance Food Group biography identifies Kimberly S. Grant as CEO of Nando’s PERi-PERi USA, describes the US business as “100% company owned,” and lists restaurants in Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, and Texas; it does not identify the US operating entity or its precise ownership path to the UK group. ³¹

The same biography describes Nando’s as a South-African-born restaurant group with more than 1,200 outlets in 21 countries. ³¹

Companies House states that it does not check the accuracy of filed information, so these ownership and officer points report statutory-register contents rather than independently adjudicated beneficial-ownership facts. ^{3, 20}

No public evidence identified of state ownership, a golden share, a charter provision, or a corporate mandate tying Nando’s primary mission to Israeli state geopolitical goals or infrastructure. ^{4, 26}

Executive & Leadership Footprint

Companies House lists Robert Adrian Graham T’Hooft, Charles Francis Luyckx, Robert Stephen Papps, Leslie Perlman, Matthew Edward Bennison, and Graham Denis Allan as active directors of Nando’s Group Holdings Limited. ³²

The register records appointments of T’Hooft and Luyckx on 19 March 2008, Papps and Perlman on 25 April 2019, Bennison on 14 October 2022, and Allan on 6 February 2026. ³²

Companies House lists Michael John Gardner, David Michael Sefton, and Mark Nicholas Standish among Nando’s Chickenland Limited’s active directors. ³³

No public evidence identified of verifiable personal donations, foundation grants, fundraising, advocacy, board roles, public-event participation, defence or surveillance investments, or settlement sponsorship by identified Nando’s founders, senior executives, controlling principals, or listed directors involving Israeli military-welfare bodies, settlement organisations, or anti-BDS groups. ^{12, 19}

The 30 August 2026 enrichment included separate name-specific live searches for Leslie Perlman; Robert Adrian Graham T’Hooft; Charles Francis Luyckx; Robert Stephen Papps; Matthew Edward Bennison; Graham Denis Allan; Michael John Gardner; David Michael Sefton; Mark Nicholas Standish; co-founders Robbie Brozin and Fernando Duarte; and former Israeli managers Kenny and Daniel Brozin. Those searches recovered the corporate and historical roles above but no verifiable relevant donation, investment, lobbying, or settlement-sponsorship act. Robbie Brozin’s documented South African charitable activity and Kenny Brozin’s historical IDF biography are not treated as Nando’s Israel/Palestine corporate conduct. ^{17, 32, 33, 18, 34}

No public evidence identified of executive-linked sponsorship or endorsement of settlement activities. ^{10, 12, 13}