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Yum Brands

Leading operator of fast-food restaurants.

Headquarters:
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
Employees: 900,000
CEO: David Novak
Stock Symbol: YUM

Website: http://www.yum.com

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Yum Brands is the world's largest restaurant company with 34,820 restaurants in more than 100 countries. There is probably a Yum restaurant near you. Its well-known brands include Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco-Bell, Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants.

Yum has been opening new or remodeled locations with multiple brands such as KFC/Taco Bell and Taco Bell/Long John Silver's to offer customers more choice in foods. The company and its franchisees now operate over 3,500 multibrand restaurants.

The company implements practices and procedures to maintain a high level of service including Customer Mania Training and CHAMPS (which measures operational basics like Cleanliness, Hospitality, Accuracy, Maintenance, Product Quality and Speed).

Here is info about each restaurant brand at Yum:

A&W Restaurants, Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., is the longest running quick service franchise chain in America. Since 1919, A&W All-American Food has been serving a signature frosty mug root beer float and All-American pure-beef hamburgers and hot dogs. There are over 600 A&W All American Food outlets in 13 countries and territories around the world and nearly 600 points of distribution at Yum! Brands multibrand restaurants.

KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain specializing in Original Recipe, Extra Crispy and Colonel's Crispy Strips with home-style sides, Honey BBQ Wings, and freshly made chicken sandwiches. Since its founding by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, KFC has been serving customers delicious, already-prepared complete family meals at affordable prices. There are over 14,000 KFC outlets in more than 102 countries and territories around the world serving some eight million customers each day.

Long John Silver's, Inc. based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's largest quick-service seafood chain, specializing in batter-dipped fish, chicken, shrimp and hushpuppies. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Long John Silver's was founded in 1969. Today, there are more than 1,100 Long John Silver's, Inc. restaurants worldwide, and over 350 additional points of distribution in multibrand restaurants.

Pizza Hut Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is the world's largest pizza restaurant company specializing in Pan Pizza, Thin 'N Crispy pizza, Hand-Tossed Style Pizza and Stuffed Crust Pizza. There are more than 7,500 restaurants in the United States and more than 5,100 restaurants in over 92 countries and territories around the world. The company is the recognized leader in the pizza category.

Taco Bell Corp. is the nation's leading Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain serving tacos, burritos, signature Quesadillas, Border Bowls, nachos and other specialty items. Taco Bell serves more than 35 million consumers each week in more than 5,600 restaurants in the U.S.

In 2006, Yum had $9.56 billion in revenue and net income of $824 million. Average sales per restaurant unit in 2006 were: KFC - $977,000; Pizza Hut - $794,000, Taco Bell - $1,176,000.

History

Yum Brands became Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., an independent, publicly owned company on October 7, 1997, as a result of a spin-off from PepsiCo, who owned, and franchised the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands worldwide.

In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Yorkshire Global Restaurants, headquartered in Lexington, KY, and its two brands: Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food. The executives decided to change the company's name to Yum Brands, Inc., which better reflected the entire portfolio of restaurants as well as the company's New York Stock Exchange ticker: YUM.

Benefits

- Medical Coverage and Prescription Benefits
- Dental Coverage
- Vision/Hearing Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Plan - Company matches first 5% of pay contributed-and that match is immediately vested.
- Stock Options
- Health Care and Dependent Care Reserve Accounts
- Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Plan
- Yum Scholarship Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- College-Planning Assistance
- Employee Discount Programs
- Credit Union
- Paid Vacation

Updated September 1, 2007