Yum! News 2009
December 17, 2009 Yum! Brands’ World Hunger Relief Raises Record–Breaking $22.5 Million in Donations to Help United Nations World Food Programme and Other Hunger Relief Agencies Provide More Than 90 Million Meals to Help End World Hunger
October 26, 2009 Yum! Brands International Division Opens 13,000th Restaurant, Reinforcing Strength of Global Portfolio and Growth in Key Emerging Markets; India’s First KFC Krushers Flagship Store–in–Store Concept
September 24, 2009 Multi–Grammy Award Winner Christina Aguilera Receives Variety’s Power of Women Honor for Philanthropic Efforts to Fight Hunger as Global Spokesperson for Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief Campaign
September 23, 2009 Yum! Brands, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell Launch World Hunger Relief Effort to Raise Awareness, Volunteerism and Funds with Christina Aguilera as Campaigns Global Spokesperson
September 21, 2009 KFC Named Dominant Restaurant Brand in South Africa
September 10, 2009 Yum! Brands and Cargill to Lead Newly–Launched Business Council to End Global Hunger
August 20, 2009 Yum! Brands Receives 2009 Brillante Award for Corporate Excellence from National Society of Hispanic MBAs
July 31, 2009 Yum! Brands Receives Innovative Program Award from Employee Services Management Association for Earth Week Program
July 15, 2009 Christina Aguilera Lends Powerful Voice in Fight to End Hunger as Global Spokesperson for World Hunger Relief Effort this Fall
July 13, 2009 The NAACP’s Youth & College Division Unites with Yum! Brands to Launch ‘The 100 Remix’ to Commemorate The NAACP’s 100–Year Anniversary
June 25, 2009 Pizza Hut Named Most Trusted Food Service Brand in India by The Economic Times for Fifth Year
June 23, 2009 Yum! Brands Recognized in Black Enterprise’s “40 Best Companies for Diversity” for Fifth Consecutive Year
June 18, 2009 Yum! Brands’ Environmentally–Friendly KFC and Taco Bell Restaurant Awarded LEED Gold Certification
May 15, 2009 Institutional Investor Survey Names Yum! Brands’ Richard Carucci #1 Chief Financial Officer in the Restaurant Industry
March 06, 2009 Yum! Brands Recognized in Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine’s “100 Best Corporate Citizens” List; Company Also Ranked Among Best Investor Relations Web Sites in North America in 2009 IR Global Rankings
March 06, 2009 Yum! Brands' KFC and Taco Bell Operate First Green Restaurant as Part of Company's On-Going Corporate Responsibility
February 24, 2009 Yum! Brands Appoints Micky Pant President, Global Branding
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Yum! Brands Receives Innovative Program Award from Employee Services Management Association for Earth Week Program
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 31, 2009 – Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants, has received the “Innovative Program Award“ from the Employee Services Management (ESM) Association’s Awards of Excellence Program for its 2008 Earth Week program that reinforced the importance of sustainability and the environment.
ESM Association, a national nonprofit for employee services providers, evaluated their members’ 2008 programs and made its selection based on several criteria including program innovation, creativity, employee feedback and results. Yum! Brands’ Earth Week Program was selected because of the program’s innovation and creativity.
“We are very proud of ESM Association’s recognition and it fuels our commitment to continuously provide innovative and best–in–class services to the employees at our Restaurant Support Centers in Louisville, Dallas and Irvine,” said Rusty Hagemann, Senior Director, Corporate Services, Yum! Brands.
The Company created Earth Week in 2008 to highlight its sustainability practices and educate employees about actions they can take in business and personally to reduce their environmental impact. Earth Week was launched simultaneously at the Company’s Restaurant Support Centers in Louisville, Dallas and Irvine. The program included daily information emails promoting awareness of the Company’s environmental actions along with a trivia contest and a Corporate Services website detailing Yum!’s green initiatives and green tips for work and home.
Earth Week also included a unified recycling system, including under–desk recycling bins for employees. Educational opportunities like “Lunch and Learn” sessions and a green teleconference were hosted to educate employees about sustainable actions taken in the Company’s Restaurant Support Centers and restaurants around the country.
For the past several years, Yum! Brands has been recognized by ESM Association for innovative employee programs and as “Employer of the Year” in 2008. Yum!’s strategy for providing employee services includes recreation and recognition programs, event planning, childcare services, convenience services and travel offerings. The Company offers a number of benefits and programs at its Restaurant Support Centers in Louisville, Dallas and Irvine such as “Lunch and Learn” sessions, on–site fitness centers, day care centers and company stores, employee discounts programs, Culture Teams and Recognition Bands.
Yum! Brands launched its Earth Week program for Restaurant Support Center employees in conjunction with the Company’s focus on corporate responsibility. The Company issued its first Corporate Responsibility Report titled “Serving the World” during the fourth quarter of 2008. The Report examines Yum! Brands’ social, environmental and economic impact based on company and external stakeholder expectations, with focus on: Corporate Governance and Ethics, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Culture and People Development, Health and Nutrition, Environment, Supply Chain, and Community Giving and can be accessed on www.yum.com/responsibility/.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 36,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories. The company is ranked #239 on the Fortune 500 List, with revenues in excess of $11 billion in 2008. 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 more than four new restaurants each day of the year, making it the leader in international retail development. The company has consistently been recognized for its reward and recognition culture, diversity leadership, community giving, and consistent shareholder returns. For the second 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. To date, this effort is helping to save approximately 4 million people in remote corners of the world, where hunger is most prevalent.