Yum! Brands, Inc.

Type	Public (NYSE:YUM)
Founded	1997
Location	Louisville, Kentucky
Key people	David C. Novak, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Restaurants
Products	A&W Restaurants KFC Long John Silver's Pizza Hut Hungry Jacks Taco Bell
Revenue	$9.1 billion USD (2004)
Employees	{{{num_employees}}}
Website	www.yum.com

Yum! Brands, Inc. NYSE: YUM or Yum! is a Fortune 500 corporation, that operates A&W, KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, Hungry Jacks and Taco Bell worldwide. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it's the world's largest quick-service (a.k.a. "fast food") restaurant company in terms of system units—nearly 33,000 restaurants around the world in more than 100 countries and territories. Yum! Brands logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Louisville (usually pronounced ; see Pronunciation below) is a major industrial city on the Ohio River. ... David C. Novak became Chairman of the Board on January 1, 2001, and Chief Executive Officer of Yum on January 1, 2000. ... A&W restaurant in Page, Arizona A&W is a chain of fast food restaurants distinguished by their draft root beer and root beer floats, made on the premises from concentrate and served in large glass mugs. ... KFC, now once again using its original name of Kentucky Fried Chicken in some of its restaurants, is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ... Long John Silvers is a fast-food restaurant, specializing in seafood and fish and chips. ... Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international food franchise based in Dallas, Texas specializing in pizza. ... Burger King (BK for short) is a large international food corporation that sells fast food in chain stores. ... Taco Bell is a fast-food restaurant chain which is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ... In business, revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Green up arrow for a positive change in revenue from last fiscal year. ... The United States dollar, or American dollar, is the official currency of the United States. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the world, although its trading volume was exceeded by that of NASDAQ (historic comparison graph {pdf}) during the 1990s. ... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ... A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name AS (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below). ... A&W restaurant in Page, Arizona A&W is a chain of fast food restaurants distinguished by their draft root beer and root beer floats, made on the premises from concentrate and served in large glass mugs. ... KFC, now once again using its original name of Kentucky Fried Chicken in some of its restaurants, is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ... Long John Silvers is a fast-food restaurant, specializing in seafood and fish and chips. ... Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international food franchise based in Dallas, Texas specializing in pizza. ... Burger King (BK for short) is a large international food corporation that sells fast food in chain stores. ... Taco Bell is a fast-food restaurant chain which is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ... Louisville (usually pronounced ; see Pronunciation below) is a major industrial city on the Ohio River. ... Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ...

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History

Yum! was created on October 7, 1997, as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. an independent, publicly owned company, as a result of a spin-off from PepsiCo, who owned, and franchised the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands worldwide. October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PepsiCo, Inc. ...

In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Yorkshire Global Restaurants, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, and its two brands: Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food. At that time, management announced its intention to change the company's name to Yum! Brands, Inc., which better reflected the entire portfolio of restaurants/brands as well as the company's New York Stock Exchange ticker: YUM. The Yorkshire acquisition was completed May 7, 2002, to drive the company's commitment to multibranding. On May 16, 2002, the name change became effective after a vote during the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. On June 17, 2002, YUM executed a two-for-one stock split. 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for March, 2002. ... City nickname: Horse Capital of the World Location in the state of Kentucky County Fayette Mayor Teresa Isaac Area  - Land  - Water 285. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... A stock split is a type of corporate action that replaces shares in a public company with more shares in the same company at a lower price. ...

Executive officers

• Chairman, CEO—David C. Novak
• COO—David Deno
• CFO—David Deno
• CIO—Delaney Bellinger
• Chief Development Officer—Chuck Rawley
• Public Affairs—Jonathon Blum
• Founder—Kenneth Langone

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See also

• List of United States companies
• Priszm Brandz—owns the Canadian franchises for all Yum! divisions except for A&W

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External links

• Yum Brands' website
• Diners Walk Through One Door and Visit Two Restaurants Article in the New York Times (July 11, 2005) on Yum!'s strategy of multibranding restaurants
• Fast food's yummy secret: America's second-biggest fast-food group is as successful as it is little known Special report in The Economist (August 27, 2005) on Yum! Brands

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