Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with over 41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum! Brands is ranked #228 on the FORTUNE 500 list with revenues of more than $13 billion and in 2014 was named among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine and one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. Its restaurant brands – KFC®, Pizza Hut® and Taco Bell® – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories.
Since its spin-off from PepsiCo in 1997, Yum! Brands has become a truly global company going from approximately 20 percent of profits coming from outside the U.S. to almost 70 percent in 2014. Yum! Brands is a leader in international retail development, opening on average over five new restaurants per day outside the U.S. in 2014. The company is proud to be the worldwide leader in emerging markets with more than 15,000 restaurants, nearly twice as many as the nearest competition. With only 2 restaurants per million people in the top 10 emerging markets, compared to 57 restaurants per million in the U.S., Yum! Brands is on the ground floor of global growth.
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