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 Campaign’s 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 Appoints Micky Pant President, Global Branding
LOUISVILLE, KY, February 24, 2009 – Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today announced the appointment of Micky Pant, 54, as President, Global Branding, a newly created position reporting directly to David C. Novak, Yum! Brands Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Pant will also retain his position as Chief Marketing Officer for Yum! Brands’ Dallas-based international division, Yum! Restaurants International (YRI), reporting to Graham Allan, President, YRI.
In his new role, Pant will be responsible for leading and establishing a singular global brand positioning and identity for KFC, Pizza Hut and ultimately for all of the Company’s brands around the world. Pant will continue to serve on the Yum! Partner’s Council leadership team and retain his current accountabilities for YRI including having all of the Chief Marketing Officers in the U.S. and around the world report to him on a dotted line basis.
“Micky Pant is an outstanding leader and one of the most talented marketers and brand builders in the entire restaurant industry. I’m excited for him to continue to build synergy and know-how across our global marketing system to achieve breakthrough results,” said David Novak, Chairman and CEO.
Pant has served as Global Chief Concept Officer for Yum! Brands, CMO for YRI and President for Taco Bell International for nearly four years, joining the Company from Reebok International in 2005 where he worked for 10 years in various marketing capacities including Global Chief Marketing Officer. During this time, Reebok was the winner of two Golden Lion awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and 2003, considered by some to be the highest honor in advertising, and was also recognized as the Interactive Marketer of the Year by Adweek magazine in 2003. Pant has also worked at PepsiCo and spent 15 years with Unilever in India and the United Kingdom.
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 #253 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 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. 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.