Olympic Gold medalist Zhang Mengxue makes donation at Yunnan
KFC restaurant
SHANGHAI, July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings,
Inc. ("Yum China") (NYSE: YUMC)
announced that Yum China restaurants
across the country have now opened their doors to promote the 2017
One Yuan Donation program. The
campaign, which began on 8 July, will run through 23 July, 2017 in all KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell
and East Dawning restaurants across the country.
Two of the early visitors to make a personal donation were
Chinese Olympic Gold medalist Zhang Mengxue and Joey Wat, President and Chief Operating Officer
of Yum China, who together paid a
visit to a KFC restaurant in Kunming city, Yunnan Province.
During their time in the restaurant, Ms. Zhang and Ms. Wat
greeted customers and encouraged them to donate one yuan to the program. They highlighted that
all funds raised will be used to help children living in
impoverished areas across China gain access to nutritional
meals.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Zhang Mengxue
for once again supporting the One
Yuan Donation program," said Ms Wat. "Her personal
involvement in the One Yuan Donation
program has helped to highlight the importance of the campaign and
the positive impact that it has on the lives of school children in
impoverished areas in China." As
part of her visit to Yunnan
Province, Ms. Wat also visited the Wafang Elementary School
("Wafang"), located in Xundian county. Wafang is one of the
beneficiary schools of the One Yuan
Donation program. Yum China
employees first visited it in 2012, following which they made a
pledge to return to see how the donations were being put to
use.
Accompanied by her son, husband and colleagues, Ms Wat met with
students at Wafang, handing out new backpacks to them all and
seeing firsthand how a donation of one single yuan can go such a
long way.
"Not long after I joined Yum
China, I was struck by the scale of the One Yuan Donation program and the commitment to
providing healthy, nutritional meals to children living in
impoverished regions across China," commented Joey Wat. "My husband and the rest of my family
were especially moved by the nutrition and other challenges that
children were facing on a daily basis. At my son's birthday, we
invited our friends to donate to the One
Yuan Donation program and then matched their donations.
Together, my family pledged to make a trip to a school to offer our
personal support to the students. Wafang Elementary School has been
a part of the One Yuan Donation
initiative since 2012, and it is incredible to see how the program
has changed children's lives for the better."
This year, many senior Yum China
representatives joined the efforts to personally promote the
One Yuan Donation program, including
Johnson Huang, General Manager of
KFC; Alice Wang, Senior Vice
President of Public Affairs of Yum
China; and Steven Li, Senior
Vice President of Marketing of KFC.
In addition to providing nutritional meals to students at Wafang
Elementary School, Johnson Huang,
General Manager of KFC, also donated over 300 books to help
establish a reading corner at the school.
Since its inception in 2008, the One
Yuan Donation program has received more than 100 million
donations and evolved to become one of the largest public donation
campaigns in China. So far, the
program has raised RMB150 million,
provided over 30 million nutritional meals and funded 750
"Love Kitchens", benefiting more
than 400,000 children across eight provinces in China.
About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China Holdings, Inc. is a licensee of Yum! Brands in
mainland China. It has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC,
China's leading quick-service restaurant brand, Pizza Hut, the
leading casual dining restaurant brand in China, and Taco Bell, which opened its first
restaurant in China at the end of
2016. Yum China also owns the Little
Sheep and East Dawning concepts outright. Yum China is well positioned for growth thanks
to its strong competitive position, integration of its brands into
Chinese popular culture and consumers' daily lives, expanding
geographic footprint in China and
existing operational expertise. It has a strong capital position,
no external debt and expects to continue growing its system sales
and profit by adding new restaurants and through growing same-store
sales. Yum China had more than 7,600
restaurants and more than 420,000 employees in over 1,100 cities at
the end of May 2017. A new generation
of younger consumers who are digitally sophisticated and brand
driven are fueling growth in consumption in China. The ongoing growth of the middle class
and urban population in China is
expected to create the world's largest market for restaurant
brands, with Yum China poised to be
the market leader.
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