Yum! News 2008
December 29, 2008 For All Those With New Year's Resolution To Get In Shape, Yum! Brands, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants Launch Free, Global Online Personal Fitness Training Program
December 09, 2008 Yum! Brands Issues First Corporate Responsibility Report: "Serving the World" Reviews the Company's Global Social, Environmental and Economic Impact
November 24, 2008 Yum! Brands Annual World Hunger Relief Campaign Builds More Awareness and Engagement Than Ever to Help Stop World Hunger; Five Million Volunteer Hours and $17.5 Million in Overall Donations and Still Counting
October 01, 2008 Yum! Brands Announced U.S. Division Will Place Calories on All Company Restaurant Menu Boards
September 25, 2008 Yum! Brands Announces Five-Year, $80 Million Commitment at Clinton Global Initiative To Help World Foor Programme
September 24, 2008 Yum! Brands Launches World Hunger Relief Campaign To Raise Awareness, Volunteerism and Funds
August 19, 2008 CNBC Special Report on China Features Yum! Brands
June 24, 2008 Yum! Brands Recognized in Black Enterprises' "40 BEST COMPANIES FOR DIVERSITY" For Fourth Consecutive Year
June 18, 2008 Pizza Hut Named Most Trusted Food Service Brand in India by THE ECONOMIC TIMES for the Fourth Year
June 16, 2008 FDA Tomato Advisory Information
June 03, 2008 Yum! Brands Appoints Eaton President of KFC, USA
May 20, 2008 Yum! Brands Donates RMB 16.5 million (U.S. $2.3 Million) to China Earthquake Relief Efforts
May 15, 2008 Yum! Brands Appoints Robert D. Walter to Board
March 21, 2008 Yum! Brands China Named One of Top 10 Best Employers by China Central TV; Yum! Only Restaurant Company to Receive “Company With Most Leadership Charisma” Award
March 14, 2008 Yum! Brands Appoints Sam Su to Board of Directors ; Retains position as President, China Division
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Yum! Brands Appoints Robert D. Walter to Board
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 15, 2008 – Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) announced today the appointment of Robert D. Walter, 62, to its Board of Directors. Walter is Founder and Executive Director of Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH), a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care. The appointment is effective today.
“Bob Walter is an extraordinary business leader who has built one of the world’s great companies from scratch. His entrepreneurial spirit and constant focus on customer service will add tremendous value to our Board of Directors,” said David C. Novak, Yum! Brands Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Walter founded Cardinal Health at the age of 26, transforming the company from its inception as a food wholesaler into the leading provider of products and services supporting the health care industry. Today, Cardinal Health is ranked #19 on the Fortune 500 list, employing more than 40,000 people on five continents with annual revenues in excess of $87 billion. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Cardinal Health went public in 1983 at a split-adjusted price of $1.04 per share and has attained a better than 5,000 percent increase in share value since that time. Walter served as Chief Executive Officer until April 2006. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Battelle Memorial Institute and Ohio University and on the Board of Directors of American Express .
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Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and territories. The company is ranked #253 on the Fortune 500 List, with revenues in excess of $10 billion in 2007. Four of the company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food and quick-service seafood categories, respectively. Outside the United States, the Yum! Brands system opened about four new restaurants each day of the year, making it the largest retail developer in the world. The company has consistently been recognized for its reward and recognition culture, diversity leadership, community giving, and consistent shareholder returns. Since its spin-off as a publicly traded company in 1997, its stock has quintupled. Last year, the company launched the world’s largest private sector hunger relief effort, in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies. This effort helped save over 1.6 million people from starvation in remote corners of the world, where hunger is most prevalent.