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Sustainability: Yum! Brands one of the top public companies on the 2017 100 Best Corporate Citizens List

Louisville, KY, 2017-Apr-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — Yum! Brands has been named one of the top public companies on the 2017 100 Best Corporate Citizens List by Corporate Responsibility Magazine for its ongoing commitment to sustainability.

“We are honored to be recognized by Corporate Responsibility Magazine as one of the year’s top socially and environmentally responsible companies,” said Roger McClendon, Chief Sustainability Officer for Yum! Brands. “This recognition demonstrates our commitment to being a good corporate steward focused on building sustainable brands. We’re on a journey to continuously improve and are making courageous decisions on the commitments our consumers and stakeholders truly care about in our food, people, community and environment.”

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens List is based on 260 data elements among seven data categories: climate change, employee relations, environment, finance, governance, human rights, and philanthropy and community support. View the full list of companies recognized here.

Yum! Brands has a long standing commitment to building distinctive, relevant brands that people trust and champion, demonstrated through the Company’s recent announcements on Sustainable Sourcing and Supply and Expanded Parental Time-Off.

More information on Yum! Brands’ responsibility efforts can be found at www.yum.com/responsibility.

About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 43,500 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. The company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Worldwide, the Yum! Brands system opens over six new restaurants per day on average, making it a leader in international retail development.

Source: Yum! Brands, Inc.

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