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Topic: Yum! Brands Inc.

  

When Children Outshine the Parents

Speaking of sports, let's turn our attention to the Kentucky Derby. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yum Brands -- parent company of the better-known KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell enterprises -- has hitched its star to the ...READ MORE

In Today's Papers

Friday afternoon conversation fodder: Ambitions of India's Retail Revolutionary (Registration required) "Mukesh Ambani, one of the country's most powerful businessmen, has big plans for a sector dominated by small ...READ MORE

Trans Fat Freedom

Yum Brands, Inc. announced this morning that its 5,500 U.S. KFC stores will replace partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in most menu items (it hasn’t found a good alternative for biscuits) with soybean oil by April 2007. That ...READ MORE

Score One for the Little Guys!

After a two-year boycott, Taco Bell finally acceded to demands to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers, primarily for immigrants who pick tomatos for the burrito giant in Florida. While it's also heartening to ...READ MORE

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports Fail to Prove Business Case

Corporate Social Responsibility reports almost never include data that supports the business case for CSR strategies. Unless business can tie the benefits of CSR to the bottom line it will be jettisoned during tough financial times. ...READ MORE

Winging It

The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons learned from the trailer park to the corner office, by David Novak Release date: October 9 Novak, CEO of Yum Brands--which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut--shares the wisdom ...READ MORE

Andy Pearson, Remembered

Andrall ("Andy") Pearson died March 11 in Palm Beach at the age of 80. Pearson was a friend of the family, as they say--one of the original seed investors in Fast Company and a guy who helped shape the focus and strategy of the ...READ MORE

Great Job! Here's a Seat Belt!

Here is the story of Latoya Gardner, a seat belt, and what happened when a KFC in Louisville, Kentucky, ran out of crispy strips.READ MORE

Shame On Taco Bell and KFC

This morning I read AdAge's article about Taco Bell's stupidity - 50 Cent Sues Taco Bell Over Value-Menu Stunt - and could not believe a company would risk such damage to their brand by offending an entire race of people in an effort ...READ MORE