date:Feb 17, 2013
Yum Brands (KFC parent company) has reported a 5% fall in its fourth quarter profit and announced that they expect 2013 earnings to fall rather than grow, as they pick up the pieces of a food safety scare in China where they earn more than 50% of the overall revenue.
In December 2012 KFC in China was under investigation after state television claimed its chicken suppliers injected banned substances and growth hormones in to its poultry.
While the company was not fined by food safety authoritie