Shortly after the acquisition, KFC's small international staff was merged with Heublein's much larger international group in Connecticut. In spite of Heublein's efforts to impose rigid operational controls, KFC country managers were frustrated by the imposition of U.S. store designs, menus, and marketing methods on culturally divergent host countries. Resistance to corporate control grew and led many stores to develop their own menus: fried fish and smoked chicken in Japan, hamburgers in South Africa, and roast chicken in Australia In some cases, local managers seemed to know what they were doing; in other cases, they clearly did not After heavy losses, KFC pulled out of Hong Kong entirely in 1975. In Japan, operations also began on shaky pounds with losses experienced throughout much of the 1970s.