date:Aug 05, 2014
n July 30 warned that the scandal had hurt sales badly at its KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants over the previous 10 days.
Yum got 35 percent of its operating profit from China last year and is more exposed to the market than McDonald's.
Yum did not quantify the impact of the China scandal on its profits, but said that a sustained, significant sales impact would have a material effect on full-year earnings per share.
The double whammy of a food safety scare and bird flu in China battered sales at