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Report: Yum to buy back Pizza Hut U.K. interest

July 30, 2006

The Guardian: Reports out of London claim Whitbread is in talks to sell its 50 percent interest in Pizza Hut's 600 United Kingdom operations back to Yum Restaurants International. The partnership is 24 years old, but the Pizza Hut brand has struggled there in recent years.

• Room to improve in 2006 at Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza Officials at Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza say the slowing economy and high gas prices aren't the only reasons their sales softened in the first half of 2006.
• Whitbread eyes sale of Pizza Hut interest