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...As chief executive of Sixth Street, the San Francisco-based investment firm, he’s taken stakes in the likes of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and the National Basketball Association’s San Antonio Spurs....
...Yum China’s network of KFC and Pizza Hut outlets has kept growing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, even as the size of its workforce has remained steady, the group’s chief executive said....
...The company, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in China, will invite investment banks to pitch to be advisers for the potential listing later this week, according to people familiar...
...About 7,000 Yum restaurants had closed by the middle of this month as a result of the pandemic, including 1,000 Pizza Hut Express locations in the US and 900 KFCs in the UK....
...Domino’s global sales surpassed Pizza Hut’s for the first time in 2017 and Mr Allison’s plans to add more than 2,000 outlets indicate a determination to defend its market share against tech-driven disrupters...
...He had proposed asking users to pay small fees after posting a certain number of messages — an idea which was shot down by Sheryl Sandberg, Mr Zuckerberg’s number two....
...The company installed Mr Ryan, a co-founder of Smashburger and a veteran of McDonald’s and Pizza Hut, as chief executive in 2016 and pushed for the closure of more than 40 underperforming locations between...
...Now, it is the actions of the almost exclusively male venture capitalists that are in the spotlight, writes Richard Waters in San Francisco....
...Western chains holding ground Despite their slowing growth, western-style fast-food chains, including McDonald’s and Yum Brands’ KFC and Pizza Hut, are still the most popular fast-food brands in China,...
...The result cements what has been a tough quarter for casual dining and coffee outlets in the world’s largest economy, with companies including Yum Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, as well...
...In May, the index fell 0.9 per cent to 100.6, which at more than 100 still pointed to an expansion but at a slower pace, a trend that has been evident for a number of months....
...Long queues of tourists waited outside the famous Temple of the Tooth. Backpackers’ hostels, Pizza Huts and Kentucky Fried Chickens had replaced the tailors and tea shops....
...of Texas at San Antonio....
...However, the fast-food sector, dominated by McDonald’s and Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands, has been much more resistant to higher wages....
...“We are obviously disappointed with second-quarter results, particularly with the very poor performance in our US division,” chief executive David Novak said of Pizza Hut....
...Analysts have praised his three-year tenure as chief executive of Taco Bell, in which the Mexican-food chain has outperformed Yum’s KFC and Pizza Hut chains....
...the Mexican-food chain, as well as KFC and Pizza Hut, is switching focus from US stores to emerging markets, particularly China * Bond investors find periphery debt havens | Investors are finding debt...
...Among his machine tools there are a jumble of electronics components, piles of sawdust and an empty pizza box, rightly giving the impression of a frenzied inventor’s lair....
...outlets including Pizza Hut and Hard Rock Café....
...In particular, three of the five top slots in the oil and gas sector are taken by US refining companies, with San Antonio-based Valero Energy outpacing its peers Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum to show...
...Roughly half its profit comes from China, and the company is opening a huge number of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut stores there – 889 in 2012, a 17 per cent increase....
...The company, which operates brands such as Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, rose 4.1 per cent to $70.84....
...Yum Brands , which runs Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other fast food restaurant chains, fell 9.4 per cent to $67.08....
...But it wasn’t just the numbers that made us proud; money, after all, is just one measure of a thriving company and usually not the most meaningful one....
...Yum Brands is increasing the number of fast-food restaurants it will open in China this year, betting that it can continue to sell more fried chicken and pizza in spite of signs of an economic slowdown....
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