Yum! Brand facts

Yum! Brands, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 35,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories.

Four of its restaurant brands -- KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- are the global leaders of the chicken, quick-service seafood, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. A&W Restaurants is the longest running quick-service franchise chain in America.

In 2006, Yum! Brands generated more than $9.5 billion in total revenues, including company sales and franchise fees.

Yum! is building a global business by focusing on key growth strategies: building dominant restaurant brands in China, driving profitable international expansion and improving U.S. brand positions and returns.

The Yum! China Division (includes mainland China, Thailand and KFC Taiwan), based in Shanghai, has been reported separately since the beginning of 2005 due to its size, unique strength and importance.

Today the China Division has more than 2,800 system restaurants (Q3 2007) and in 2006, its operating profits were more than $290 million. KFC is the number one quick-service restaurant brand and Pizza Hut is the number one casual dining brand in mainland China.

Yum! Restaurants International (YRI), based in Dallas, Texas, is the largest division of Yum! Brands with more than 12,000 restaurants outside the U.S. (excluding Yum! China Division). In 2006 operating profits for YRI were more than $407 million. In each of the last seven years, YRI has opened over 700 new restaurants.

Outside the United States in 2006, Yum's system opened about three new restaurants each day of the year making it one of the fastest growing retailers in the world.

For the past four years, the company has been recognized as one of Fortune Magazine's "Top 50 Employers for Minorities." It also has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Employers for Women" by Fortune, one of the "40 Best Companies for Diversity" by Black Enterprise Magazine for the past two years, one of the "Corporate 100 Companies Providing Opportunities for Hispanics" by Hispanic Magazine and by BusinessWeek as one of the "Top 15 Companies for In-Kind Corporate Philanthropy." E-mail to a friend