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| Company type | Public |
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| NYSE: YUMC SEHK: 9987 | |
| ISIN | US98850P1093 |
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Predecessor | Yum! Brands |
| Founded | November 1, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-11-01) |
| Headquarters | , China |
Number of locations | 12117 (2021 Q3) |
Area served | China Little Sheep: Canada, Japan, Indonesia, United States |
Key people | Joey Wat (CEO) |
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| Total equity | |
Number of employees | 450,000[2] (2018) |
| Divisions | East Dawning Little Sheep Huang Ji Huang COFFii & JOY Lavazza Shaofaner |
| Website | www |
| Yum China | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 百勝中國控股有限公司 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 百胜中国控股有限公司 | ||||||
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Yum China Holdings, Inc. (Chinese:百胜中国;pinyin:Bǎishèng Zhōngguó) is an[3] American-ChineseFortune 500[4]fast-food restaurant company based inShanghai, China.[5][6][7][8] With US$9.5 billion in revenue and 10,600 restaurants worldwide it is one of the largest restaurant companies. It was spun off fromYum! Brands in 2016, becoming an independent, publicly traded company on November 1, 2016. Yum China is a trademark licensee of Yum Brands, paying 3% of total systemwide sales to Yum Brands. It operates 8,484 restaurants in over 1,100 cities located in every province and autonomous region inmainland China. It has a workforce of 450,000 employees.[9][10] Since the stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the company has an office inPlano, Texas, forSEC filings.[11]
On October 25, 2015, Yum! Brands announced that it intended to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies by spinning off Yum China;[12] it took effect on November 1, 2016.[13]

Yum China has several subsidiary brands, includingKFC,Taco Bell,Pizza Hut, COFFii & JOY (a coffee bar launched in 2018), Huang Ji Huang (a casual dining franchise),East Dawning (a Jiangnan cuisine fast food franchise) andLittle Sheep.Little Sheep has around 200 restaurants in China, thirty in eleven US states (most of which have been rebranded to Happy Lamb), mostly inCalifornia, seventeen inJapan, nine inCanada and one inJakarta,Indonesia.[14]
Number of units as of 2024:
The headquarters is in the Yum China Building (Chinese:百胜中国大厦;pinyin:Bǎishèng Zhōngguó Dàxià) inXuhui District.[15]
20 Tianyaoqiao Road, Shanghai 200030, P. R. China-Address in ChineseArchived April 26, 2019, at theWayback Machine: "上海市天钥桥路20号百胜中国大厦 邮编:200030 "