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...with the companies’ management. Topping the list of issues were company sustainability reports, which “address the economic, environmental and social performance of the company.” The committees agreed to oppose the issuance of sustainability reports for five companies, including General Electric and Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. The vote came despite a two-year boycott of Taco Bell because of allegedly poor working conditions for its tomato pickers. The report called it “unreasonable” to ask for sustainability reports...
Steve may be the almighty managing editor, but he is completely down with dancing on tables. And he buys us junk food. Yum—on two counts...
...corner of the restaurant where people barely noticed them." KFC, with 1,200 restaurants, began rebuilding its image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture of a fist (a symbol of the proletariat). The headline reads: KFC CHANGES FOR CHINA. Owner Yum Brands' Chinese CEO Su Jingshi says KFC is determined to provide Chinese-friendly food, like Cantonese egg tarts. KFC also reorganized one of its most popular meal combos: it replaced Coke and French fries with juice and fruit...
...fats in its chicken dishes. But it still has a long way to go. Burger King seems in no particular hurry to address the issue. Spokeswoman Lauren Hammann maintains that trans fats have "never been an issue" with customers but adds that the company is looking into the question. Yum! Brands has been testing oil blends for Taco Bell and KFC (Pizza Hut has always been trans fat free), but Yum! senior vice president Jonathan Blum says the scarcity of alternative oils has hampered efforts...
...example, last year the committees voted down proposals for Kellogg, Yum! Brands, and Safeway to report on their use of genetically engineered ingredients, but supported a proposal that Boeing develop a human rights policy and report on its operations in China...