Brands (nyse: YUM - news - people )' efforts to grow pizza, taco and fried chicken sales.
Brands ' (nyse: YUM - news - people ) rat-infested Taco Bell to Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) roll-overs and Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) heart-attack-triggering Vioxx drug.
Brands (nyse: YUM - news - people ), PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) and Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ), makers of high-calorie foods, who some have blamed for the "epidemic" of obesity and the overweight in America.
Taco Bell, an operating company of Tricon Global Restaurants (nyse: YUM - news - people ), does not make these taco shells but licenses the Taco Bell name to Kraft, a unit of Philip Morris (nyse: MO - news - people ), for use on retail products.
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That figure includes 3, 481 Yum-owned stores, about half of their total company-owned stores.
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Yum may well lack the ingredients that many growth-focused investors see in the company (Yum will release third-quarter earnings after the bell this afternoon).
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It sold cups to McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), Yum Brands and Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ).
Crises of trust can wreak havoc in any industry--from JetBlue Airways ' (nyse: JBLU - news - people ) recent customer-service stumbles and Yum!
Japan's Mos Burger, local Western-style fast-food chains, Japanese fast-food chains, and Yum!
Louisville's advantage continues to be the revenue it draws from its home arena, the 22, 000-seat KFC Yum Center, which it began playing in during the 2010-11 season.
They also may provide solace to companies like McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), Yum!
Then there are earnings, which will include biotech firm Schering-Plough, courier UPS, entertainment and media company Walt Disney, and food-chain conglomerate Yum!
Not surprisingly, insiders at Yum Brands say their decision-makers were nearly unanimous about taking an aggressive approach.
Shares in Yum Brands surged in post-market trading on Monday after the company released first quarter sales data in China.
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Yum restaurants are pushing higher-priced items to bolster dine-in business.
This year, bankers expect a new wave of Hong Kong IPOs from multinationals looking to list their China operations, throwing out names of prospects like U.S.-based Yum Brands Inc.
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Yum Brands posted a top-line miss and a bottom-line beat for its third quarter, but investors focused on its performance in China, where operating profits surged 22% and same store sales gained 6%.
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The concern isn't limited to domestic producers: U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc.
Already, the probe by Shanghai authorities into whether Yum bought raw chicken with higher-than-permitted chemical levels badly damaged fourth-quarter results.
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In the ads, from the Dallas-based unit of Yum Brands in Louisville, Ky.
Excluding one-time items, Yum earned 83 cents a share in the fourth quarter.
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Taco Bell, a division of Yum Brands, recently turned to fast-food eaters to help create a hot-selling burrito--hopes were high for a "truly healthy" one.
From FedEx to Nike and Yum Brands, even Starbucks and Coca-Cola, several major global companies have delivered weak earnings and partially attributed them to the global economic malaise.
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Inflation and currencies weakened earnings, and Yum also pointed to labor costs and higher start-up expenses as it opens more restaurants.
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Sales at its more than 4, 200 restaurants in China floundered, in part thanks to a poultry-supply scandal, but the Yum!
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Investors have looked at Starbucks as a proxy for the health of the Chinese consumers, as has been the case with other consumer-oriented companies like Nike and Yum!
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