Pizza Hut News & Media
Pleased pizza investors pump up prices of publicly held brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The pandemic has proven that people will get their pizza come hell or high water, and that's continuing to prompt pizza company investors to take positive…
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Cheese, wheat, gas prices climb, as year's top pizza stocks fall
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
All the staple ingredients that pizza restaurant companies depend on were trending up in price last week, indicating the industry's increasing pace forward on…
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Cheese prices soar as restaurants seek more
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
As restaurant pandemic restrictions ease nationally and pizza restaurants continue to add business, cheese producers are getting significantly higher prices…
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Yum Brands announces 47-cent dividend
May 15, 2020
Yum! Brands, Inc. board of directors declared a dividend of 47 cents per share of common stock. The quarterly dividend will be distributed June 12 to…
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Papa is pleased: Good week for pizza trading is great week for Papa John's
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Last week's positive Q1 earnings report for Louisville, Kentucky-based Papa John's made for very happy investors, as the brand posted a pick-up in value over…
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Pizza stocks, gas + cheese prices reverse price trends in topsy-turvy trading week
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza share prices and commodities trading last week were in a role-reversal kind of mood, with some of the winning brands of recent weeks falling in value…
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Taco Bell shines as sole bright spot in Yum Brands Q1 sales
April 30, 2020
Though KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grille parent, Yum Brands, recorded a Q1 same-store sales decline of 7% after the tumultuous first…
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Pizza brand trading proves Americans can get through anything with 'nice, hot slice or two'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
As most Americans head into yet another week of stay-at-home orders, pizza trading shows investors know that for a lot of us, ordering pizza has become a key…
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Can CMO return Pizza Hut to 'center of pop culture?'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Former KFC Global Director of Marketing George Felix, who took the marketing reins of sister brand, Pizza Hut, in January, reveals how he'll breathe new life…
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All things considered? A pretty good week to be a pizza restaurateur
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Domino's and Papa John's, as well as the parent companies of Pizza Hut, Pie Five and Pizza Inn, all played favorites with investors last week, with the…
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Pizza Hut launches 'contact-less' pickup nationally
April 16, 2020
Pizza Hut has now added what it calls "contact-less curbside pickup" at participating restaurants nationwide, available to customers who check a designated box…
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&pizza, Pizza Hut give great feeds + reads, to hospital workers, school kids
April 14, 2020
Pizza chains continue to step up to honor, feed and enrich health-care workers and kids in need of meals amid the closures necessitated by COVID-19. Pizza Hut…
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Something to smile about: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Rave shares all up
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza brand stock values are up and gas prices keep going down. So, how's that for something to take the gray right out of a locked-down, mid-pandemic day's…
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Papa John's only trading winner last week, as gas use dips to lowest in 27 years
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Gas demand hit the lowest level the markets have seen since 1993 last week, while cheese market inventories stack up as dairy farmers throw milk away amidst…
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Pizza Hut puts 'contactless' deal in play
April 1, 2020
Like most brands working to maintain sales during the pandemic, Pizza Hut is working to make deals to meet the needs of customers forced to stay at home…
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Yum Brands CEO relinquishes salary to fund GM bonuses, employee aid fund
March 31, 2020
The CEO of Louisville-based QSR and pizza brand parent, Yum Brands, is contributing his salary for the remainder of the year to fund one-time $1,000 bonuses…
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Domino's climbs, Rave crashes in volatile pandemic-era pizza trading
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Scale and an owned delivery system are both paying off for pizza brand, Domino's, as skittish investors show their support for the world's biggest pizza…
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Yum Brands closing 7,000 stores globally due to COVID-19
March 25, 2020
Yum Brands is closing 1,000 Pizza Hut Express outlets and at least 900 U.K. KFC stores in a group of 7,000 restaurant outlets the Louisville, Kentucky-based…
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The Big Shift: Transition to 'delivery only' tough, but potentially lifesaving
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The pandemic that has now got the U.S. restaurant industry in a stranglehold is forcing many brands to delivery-only operations, which not only is requiring…
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Yum China sees 'early signs of recovery'
March 23, 2020
Yum China Holdings, Inc. said that despite the "unprecedented scale and impact" of the pandemic across its locations in China, leadership at the company is…
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