The Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) arm of US fast food corporation and franchiser of outlets Yum! Brands Inc has announced a plan to acquire hundreds of branches in Europe. Yum! announced on Wednesday that its KFC division has agreed to buy more than 200 KFC outlets from EG Group, the company’s largest KFC franchisee in the UK and Ireland. The financial details of the deal have not been divulged. The transaction is expected to accelerate KFC’s growth strategy in the large and growing UK and Ireland chicken market, with high average unit volumes and robust margins. KFC UK and Ireland sales were u…