The second largest pizza chain in China is The Pizza Company, a brand owned by Minor Food Group.
The Pizza Company was launched in 2001, and only entered China in 2005.
They eventually settled but Heinecke took his experience and turned it into a new opportunity, opening his own competing chain, The Pizza Company, that offered middle class Thai consumers dishes, including a tom yum gung flavored pie, to better suit their tastes.
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Last year, around the Super Bowl, the company sold a Big Dipper Pizza, a 2-foot-long pizza cut into 24 strips that could be torn off and dipped.
Brands shares, also said that macroeconomic factors in the U.K. are contributing to a slowdown in the company's KFC and Pizza Hut units.
He still likes the long-term outlook in the growing Chinese market, applauding the company's plan to ramp up its Pizza Hut chain to 150 pizza delivery outlets by 2008 from 25 today.
The parent to more than 37, 000 Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell restaurants last year sold 404 of its company-operated locations in the U.S., including 264 KFC, 74 Taco Bell and 66 Pizza Hut outlets, company data show.
Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM) is the umbrella company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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It is hoped that many staff will be able to transfer to the parent company's new chilled pizza site at Deeside.
In the past three years, the company has bought all or part of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Donatos Pizza, and Boston Market, all U.S.-based, and British Aroma Grill.
The King Fry Meat Products burger was from Walsall's Pig Out and the Burger Manufacturing Company product was from Nefyn Pizza and Kebab House in Gwynedd.
The King Fry Meat Products burger was from Pig Out in Walsall and the Burger Manufacturing Company product was from Nefyn Pizza and Kebab House in Gwynedd.
Could a company game the system by dividing its pizza into more slices, and thereby making every individual slice look healthier?
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In China, the company saw same store sales grow 6% and system sales jump 22%, as the company that runs Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut opened 192 new stores there.
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The company that operates KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and other fast food chains posted earnings per share of 83 cents in the third quarter, up 13% from 73 cents for the same period ago, and in-line with Wall Street forecasts.
That included pizza-and-beer parties and company retreats to the beach.
In 2007 the company made another innovative move by introducing a new and efficient pizza oven.
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The company says it is in the process of reducing its ownership of U.S. franchises Pizza Hut and KFC to 5%.
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From his earliest days with the company, when it was a video-games firm called Control Video Corporation, the former Pizza Hut marketing executive was convinced that there was something magical about the delivery of content online.
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