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Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with more than 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries and territories and more than 1 million associates. Yum! is ranked #239 on the Fortune 500 List, with revenues in excess of $11 billion in 2008. Four of their restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food and quick-service seafood categories. Environmental Responsibility YUM! Brands cares about the impact of their global environmental footprint and believes it is their responsibility to understand and minimize the impacts of their business on the environment. Challenges Include:
They are proactively exploring the ways in which they can reduce their impact on the environment without compromising operational standards or shareholder value. Over the past two years, their U.S. company-owned restaurants aggressively worked to reduce energy consumption. They achieved total annualized savings of 60,000 metric tons of CO2, about 18 percent above our goal of 51,000 metric tons. The savings were equivalent to 10,700 cars being taken off the road or eliminating the energy use of 4,400 households and saved $17 million in energy costs.
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