Profile

Yum China Holdings Inc. is an American Fortune 500 fast-food restaurant company incorporated in the United States with operational headquarters in Shanghai, China. With US$6.8 billion of revenue in 2016 and over 7,600 restaurants, it is one of the largest restaurant companies in China. It was spun off from Yum! Brands in 2016, becoming an independent, publicly traded company on November 1, 2016. It operates 8,484 restaurants in over 1,100 cities located in every province and autonomous region in Mainland China. It has a workforce of 450,000 employees. On October 25, 2015, Yum! Brands announced that it intended to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies by spinning off Yum China; it took effect 1 November 2016.