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1. Business - Companies - RESTAURANTS

   Bird flu adds to KFC's China woes

   Posted May 15th 2013, 12:00am by Bloomberg

   ... Business Companies KFC Yum Brand H7N9 avian flu Bloomberg in Shanghai Fast-food chain 'failing to keep pace with rapid changes in tastes of Chinese consumers' Can Colonel Sanders win back Chinese diners? Yum Brand reported that same-store sales on the mainland plunged 29 per cent last month as concerns about the safety of its chicken and the spread of bird flu prompted ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1237757/bird-flu-adds-kfcs-china-woes
2. Comment - Insight & Opinion - A BAD WEEK FOR ...

   A Bad Week for ... , May 12, 2013

   Posted May 12th 2013, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... Comment Insight & Opinion Yum! Brands Joko Widodo Mao Zedong Yum! Brands Still reeling from accusations about food safety at KFC restaurants on the mainland, the US fast food conglomerate found another of its brands embroiled in controversy - Little Sheep, the Mongolian hotpot chain it bought in 2011. Branches of Little Sheep in Shanghai were found to have bought food from ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1235673/bad-week-may-12-2013
3. Business - Companies

   Yum says not affected by China mutton scandal

   Posted May 07th 2013, 08:30am by Reuters

   ... Business Companies News China Yum Little Sheep China Food Scandals Reuters in Shanghai Yum Brands said its roughly 450 Little Sheep hot pot restaurants in China are not involved in a fake mutton scandal that is the latest tainted food saga to rock the country that is the fast-food chain’s largest market. The comments from Yum came shortly after Shanghai authorities said they were ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1232047/yum-says-not-affected-china-mutton-scandal
4. Business - Companies - BIRD FLU

   China bird flu threatens KFC parent Yum’s winning streak

   Posted Apr 11th 2013, 10:37am

   ... in China has had a significant, negative impact on KFC sales,” the company said in a regulatory filing. Yum did not quantify the impact. The bird flu outbreak has already sickened 33 and killed ten ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1212047/yum-says-bird-flu-hits-china-april-sales-march-down
5. Comment - Blogs - FOOD SCANDAL

   Coke stumbles, KFC bounces back

   Posted Mar 13th 2013, 11:28am by Doug Young

   ... Comment Blogs Business Companies Coca-Cola Yum Brands KFC Food Scandal Doug Young A new scandal involving Coke and a previous food safety scandal involving KFC are likely to pass quickly, having little long-term effect on the companies' China operations New reports on global food and beverage giants Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM) are highlighting some ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1189741/coke-stumbles-kfc-bounces-back
6. Date set for showdown over Social Democrats' leadership

   Posted Oct 25th 2010, 12:00am by Tanna Chong

   ... Edward Yum Liang-Hsien Politics Tanna Chong Internal strife in the League of Social Democrats could come to a temporary end in two weeks, possibly with the overthrow of the party's leadership. The conflict between two league factions - one led by rising star Edward Yum Liang-hsien and the other by chairman Andrew To Kwan-hang - started over whether the league should still take ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/728465/date-set-showdown-over-social-democrats-leadership
7. Rebels try to unseat party leadership

   Posted Oct 29th 2010, 12:00am by Ambrose Leung

   ... team of chairman Andrew To Kwan-hang and a group led by Edward Yum Liang-hsien. Yum, who quit the party's executive committee last week in protest at what he called the leadership's ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/728808/rebels-try-unseat-party-leadership
8. Comment - Blogs

   Yum reels as avian flu eases

   Posted May 13th 2013, 11:21am by Doug Young

   ... for at least the next few months, with Yum's (NYSE: YUM) KFC perhaps the most vulnerable to longer term damage. Reflecting just how bad things got, Yum announced late last week that its China ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1236650/yum-reels-avian-flu-eases
9. Business - Companies - FAST FOOD

   KFC owner in bid to fix battered image

   Posted May 10th 2013, 10:51am by Reuters

   ... Business Companies Yum Brands KFC Pizza Hut Little Sheep China Food Scandals Reuters in Shanghai Yum Brands, the largest foreign fast-food chain in China, is strengthening its media strategy in the country in a bid to win back customer loyalty after a series of food scares that decimated sales this year. State media and social web sites criticised Yum's response ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1234394/after-rough-patch-china-yum-looks-repair-image
10. News - China - FOOD SAFETY

    Shanghai cooked food stores shut down over fake mutton

    Posted May 06th 2013, 12:24pm by Reuters

    ... lamb" and sold to hotpot chain stores including Little Sheep of Yum Brands, P-Shang Dolar and Tan Hotpot, Xinhua said. A spokesman for Yum Brands, which acquired Little Sheep, based in Inner ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1231321/shanghai-investigates-mutton-supplier-linked-yums-little-sheep

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