Yum! Brands New CSR Report Highlights Performance & Progress Across Strategic Areas of Focus: Food, People, Community & Envir...
April 02 2015 - 10:53AM
Business Wire
Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and
Taco Bell and one of the top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate
Responsibility Magazine in 2014, announced the release of its
online 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. Yum!
Brands is listed on the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings and
participates annually in the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Yum! Brands, parent company of KFC, Pizza
Hut and Taco Bell and one of the top 100 Corporate Citizens by
Corporate Responsibility Magazine in 2014, announced the release of
its online 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The
Report provides a global view on the progress Yum! is making
towards its goals and tracks performance across four strategic
areas of focus: food, people, community and environment. Visit
www.yumcsr.com. (Photo: Business Wire)
“CSR is at the heart of how we are growing our three iconic
brands,” said Greg Creed, CEO, Yum! Brands, Inc. “I’m pleased that
each brand has meaningful CSR efforts that positively impact the
local communities where our employees, franchisees and customers
live and work. I’m proud of the progress we’re making on our
journey to build three global brands people trust and champion, and
we are going to get better and more courageous every day at
delivering on the high quality, high integrity commitments our
consumers and stakeholders care about most in our food, people,
communities and environment.”
The Report provides a global view on the progress Yum! is making
towards its goals and tracks performance across four strategic
areas of focus: food, people, community and environment. Also
featured are success stories from the Company’s brands around the
world presented in interactive, info-graphic-style and video
formats.
Highlights from Yum! Brands 2014 CSR Report include:
Food
- Yum! Brands believes that all of its
food can be part of a balanced lifestyle if eaten in moderation and
balanced with exercise. The Company is making progress on three
pillars: more choice, more transparency and improvement to
ingredients.
- By the end of 2015, Yum! expects to
reach its goal of having 15 percent of its meals at one third of
the recommended daily allowance (RDA) in each country where it
operates. By 2020, the Company’s goal is to have 20 percent of its
meals at one third of the RDA.
- Each of the Company’s brands has
introduced products that are lower in calories and fat, such KFC’s
Kentucky Grilled Chicken, Pizza Hut’s Skinny Slice Pizza and
Gluten-Free Pizza and Taco Bell’s Fresco Menu featuring six
signature items that are each under 350 calories and 10 grams of
fat.
- KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell provide
nutritional information in their restaurants and online. The
Company was the first to call on Congress to enact uniform national
menu labeling as well as one of the first in the world to eliminate
artificial trans fat. The Company is also actively reducing sodium
across its menus globally.
People
- Yum! Brands has created a unique
people-first culture centered around reward and recognition to
drive results. The Company is recognized as one of the 2014 Aon
Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders® in North America for its
comprehensive leadership development programs and practices. In
addition, Chief People Officer Anne Byerlein was recently named one
of Forbes’ Top 10 Chief Human Resources Officers.
- Yum! wants to make learning and career
development accessible to as many of its 1.5 million associates
around the world as possible. Through Yum! University, the
Company’s worldwide learning and development platform, associates
have completed over 35 million online courses in the past few years
alone.
- In the U.S., the Company provides
salaried associates with tuition reimbursement opportunities.
Through Yum!’s Andy Pearson Scholarship Program, the Company has
awarded approximately 2,500 scholarships and nearly $6 million in
grants to associates since 2003.
Community
- Yum! Brands believes its greatest
contribution is making food accessible to the less fortunate. In
2007, the Company created World Hunger Relief in partnership with
the U.N. World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies.
Since its inception, World Hunger Relief, the world’s largest
private sector hunger relief effort, has raised and donated more
than $600 million in cash and food donations providing 2.4 billion
nutritious meals for those in need.
- For more than 20 years, the Company has
been committed to solving hunger in the U.S. through its Harvest
food donation program. Each year, its restaurants donate more than
10 million pounds of food to partner agencies nationwide. Harvest
has grown into the world’s largest prepared food donation program,
contributing 173 million pounds of food to over 3,000 nonprofit
organizations in the U.S. The Company is continuing to expand
Harvest globally this year.
- In the U.S., the Company’s brands give
back with programs that focus on college scholarships through the
KFC Foundation, reading incentives through the Pizza Hut BOOK IT!®
program and mentoring at-risk teens through the Taco Bell
Foundation for Teens.
Environment
- Yum! Brands is focused on green
building design, energy and water reduction, environmentally
preferable packaging, supplier environmental audits and minimizing
waste within its stores through increased efforts in oil and
cardboard recycling and food donation.
- Yum! has over 4,200 restaurants that
include sustainable building solutions. In addition, the Company
has over 30 LEED certified restaurants built or underway across
nine countries, the second highest total among restaurateurs. Its
LEED certified buildings incorporate elements such as recycled
building materials, solar panels, LED lighting, low-water fixtures,
energy monitoring control systems, high efficiency air conditioning
and heating systems, more efficient kitchen equipment, among other
examples.
- By the end of 2015, all of Yum!’s new
company-owned stores will be LEED certifiable. Yum! is also on
target to reduce energy consumption in its company-owned
restaurants by 15 percent by the end of 2015. It has eliminated the
release of almost 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 since 2009, the
equivalent to removing 225,000 cars off the road.
- New this year, the Company has
committed to source 100 percent of its palm oil for cooking oil
from responsible and sustainable sources by the end of 2017.
For more information and to view Yum! Brands 2014 CSR Report,
visit www.yumcsr.com. Join the conversation at
Facebook.com/yumbrands and @yumbrands on Twitter using the hashtag
#CSR.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over
41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum!
is ranked #216 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13
billion. The Company’s restaurant brands - KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco
Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and
Mexican-style food categories. Outside the United States, the Yum!
Brands system opens over five new restaurants per day on average,
making it a leader in international retail development.
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