KL picked as Darden's Asia-Pacific headquarters

Bill Herzig, Senior Vice President of Darden Restaurants and President of Darden Aquafarms

KUALA LUMPUR: InvestKL landed one of its biggest coups in convincing Darden Restaurants Inc to choose South-East Asia’s regional headquarters (RHQ) hub, Kuala Lumpur, as its RHQ, thereby making the Malaysian capital city its Asia-Pacific restaurant headquarters.

A Fortune 500 company headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Darden Restaurants operates over 2,000 restaurants in North America and has more than 200,000 employees. It is one of the largest full-service restaurant companies in the world. In recent years, it has expanded overseas and has a presence in the Middle East in countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Japan.