Kentucky Fried Chicken

Once rejected by Kentucky Fried Chicken and dozens of other employers, Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) founder Jack Ma has risen to become wealthier than the fast-food giant's parent company, Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM). Early Failures That Shaped a Billionaire Ma, born in 1964 in Hangzhou, China, faced...

Yum! Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM) is making headlines for announcing that Kentucky Fried Chicken will soon be based in Texas. While the company has Kentucky in its name, its not the first brand to be headquartered in a different state. What Happened: Kentucky Fried Chicken, which was founded by Harland...

As Benzinga welcomes a new addition to the kin of Zing, a Zinger sandwich from Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM)’s Kentucky Fried Chicken, we wanted to flip through the family album to celebrate the crazy uncles and embarrassing third-cousins that make the Zinger clan what it is. Here are some of...

Tuesday, Kentucky Fried Chicken (Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM)), a fast food restaurant chain best known for its comfort cooking, gave away bottles of its limited-edition offering — sunscreen. Within hours, consumers emptied the restaurant's stock of the lotion. Related Link: Before...

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) expanded its business into the healthcare and wellness space — sort of. Filed in the "it can't really be true" category, someone in the marketing department at Yum Brands, parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, felt a good business venture is selling sunscreen...

On Monday, Benzinga reported Yum!'s (NYSE: YUM) after-hours spike of over seven percent. The spike was due to word of better-than-expected February sales in China. For the first quarter, same-store sales were down 20 percent. This was largely impacted by a steep decline in KFC sales, as the brand...