Sin Hwa Dee began operations in the 1970s as a cottage industry in the former soya sauce-producing enclave of Kim Chuan Road, in the Paya Lebar area of Singapore.
Looking to buy a used car dealership, or a Pizza Hut franchise? Thinking of selling your company? A new marketplace, BizTrader.com, is ready to play matchmaker.
In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering -- more than $1 billion to be exact
This year's Forbes Rich List is notable for the absence of Bill Gates at the top. After 13 years as the world's richest man, he has finally been toppled by his friend Warren Buffett who has an estimate fortune of $62bn.
Yum! Brands, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 35,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories.
David C. Novak became chairman of the board at Yum! Brands on January 1, 2001, and chief executive officer on January 1, 2000.
If you've been avoiding burgers, ice cream, and pizza thinking you're doing your waistline a favor, don't. They can actually help you lose weight -- and keep it off, too. Here are the hidden slim-down perks of five foods that get a bad rap and the best way to add each one back into your diet.
Having famous parents sure can be helpful to one's career. Just ask Deacon Phillippe.
Thumping dance music, waiters darting from the kitchen with hot plates, children chasing balloons. "It's rocking," says 23-year-old software engineer Nishant Gupta, squirting ketchup onto his pizza before dipping it in a mound of mustard and taking a bite.
Yum Brands Inc., parent of the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut fast-food chains, said Friday it could have to make some additional material tax payments stemming from a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.
Sin Hwa Dee began operations in the 1970s as a cottage industry in the former soya sauce-producing enclave of Kim Chuan Road, in the Paya Lebar area of Singapore.
Looking to buy a used car dealership, or a Pizza Hut franchise? Thinking of selling your company? A new marketplace, BizTrader.com, is ready to play matchmaker.
In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering -- more than $1 billion to be exact
This year's Forbes Rich List is notable for the absence of Bill Gates at the top. After 13 years as the world's richest man, he has finally been toppled by his friend Warren Buffett who has an estimate fortune of $62bn.
Yum! Brands, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 35,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories.
David C. Novak became chairman of the board at Yum! Brands on January 1, 2001, and chief executive officer on January 1, 2000.
If you've been avoiding burgers, ice cream, and pizza thinking you're doing your waistline a favor, don't. They can actually help you lose weight -- and keep it off, too. Here are the hidden slim-down perks of five foods that get a bad rap and the best way to add each one back into your diet.
Having famous parents sure can be helpful to one's career. Just ask Deacon Phillippe.
Thumping dance music, waiters darting from the kitchen with hot plates, children chasing balloons. "It's rocking," says 23-year-old software engineer Nishant Gupta, squirting ketchup onto his pizza before dipping it in a mound of mustard and taking a bite.
Yum Brands Inc., parent of the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut fast-food chains, said Friday it could have to make some additional material tax payments stemming from a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.
This has been a nerve-racking year for investors, with oil prices up, growth slowing and worries that the meltdown in the subprime-mortgage market could spill over into other parts of the economy. ...
The United States and its key trading partners like the European Union, India and Brazil are scurrying to reach a worldwide deal in the next few months to boost trade in farm and industrial goods.
It's never easy replacing a company's founder, but that was exactly the task facing Nigel Travis in April 2005 when he became CEO of Papa John's, the nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain with over 3,000 restaurants. He took the reins from longtime chief exec John Schnatter, who started the company in 1984 out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern.
With eyes glued to their TVs this Sunday, Americans across the nation will be chomping on millions of dollars of delivered goodies while watching Super Bowl XLI on the second highest food consumption day of the year, behind Thanksgiving.
John Schnatter sold his first pizza in 1984, out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern. By the time Papa John's debuted on the Fastest-Growing list a decade later, it was a $162-millio...
Consumers aren't just feeling high gas prices at the pump ... increasingly, costs are inching higher on everything from the cost of delivering a package to the cost of delivering a pizza.
The best known name in horse racing -- the Kentucky Derby -- is changing that name to include a corporate sponsor.
To offset rising energy costs, pizza chain Papa John's will replace all current ovens in its restaurants with a new energy-efficient model that promises to cut energy consumption 25 percent and bake pies 30 percent faster.
Some executives soar with eagles. They're the power brokers who fly in peerless comfort, efficiency, and style on wings made by Gulfstream or Learjet. Yet there's another breed of titans who keep t...
New technology innovations could soon force the restaurant industry to rejigger an often-used acronym -- QSR, or quick-service restaurant -- to SSR, or self-service restaurant, instead.
Soda sales have gone flat for the first time in 20 years in the U.S., according to a new report.
The Kentucky Derby will showcase a sponsor for the first time in its 131 years of horse racing, as the chain that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut has inked a deal with the race.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Who would have thought in a year where we saw the launch of two new major gaming systems and announcements about two more that the story of the year would be about a beverage?
In the clearest signal to date that China has made the leap from emerging economy to a global powerhouse, Hooters will open its first location in the communist country next week, a spokesman for the company confirmed Friday.
It's just before 9.30 in the morning in one of Mumbai's northern suburbs, and Lalitha Pisat is preparing lunch for her son. He's a resident doctor, living in a hospital in the heart of the Indian city.
As if the advertising industry didn't have enough trouble already, a new development is catching on in schools: programs to "ad-proof" children.
The past year has presented myriad threats for fast-food companies. Mad cow disease emerged for the first time in the U.S., and the diet industry's war on carbohydrates moved into high gear. Meanwh...
Georgia's Atlantic Coast Federal bank had almost no takers when it offered $5 in cash to people who opened a free checking account. So the bank picked a different incentive--$5 gift certificates to...
BREAKTHROUGH Once they decided to create a consistent look for all their restaurants in 1963, Dan and Frank Carney watched as Pizza Hut, their Wichita-based company, grew from 43 stores to 300 by 1...
Just over five years ago we launched a column called Look Back, which usually appears on FSB's last page. The conceit couldn't have been simpler: Each story would explore the entrepreneurial roots ...
There's George "The Chicken Man" Naddaff, Frank "Papa Pizza" Carney, Mo "Tea Time" Siegel, and Neil "The Closet Guy" Balter. All, as you may have guessed, have these nicknames because they closely ...
JULY
I don't suppose an editor should have a favorite column--it's like saying you have a favorite child. But I must admit that I have a soft spot in my heart for the Look Back feature on the last page ...
In early October, on the first Muslim holy day after American warplanes began the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, thousands of protesters spilled out onto the streets of Karachi. Armed with sticks...
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. Tell that to the companies that recently found themselves associated with terrorism. Last month Osama bin Laden was videotaped wearing a watch that ...
Ryan Adams Gold Lost Highway Adams is a great big sap, and we mean that as a compliment. In an age gone sour with snickering irony, it takes a lot of guts to fill an album with sweet, rousing choru...
This fall, Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe will become the first corporate-sponsored college students. First USA Bank will pay their tuition at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern Ca...
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If you live with a teenager, you may think he or she is a little peculiar. (Strange. Inscrutable. Maddening. Pick your adjective.) But here's something even more so: federal unemployment statistics...
Roger Enrico is known for bold strokes. In 1984, when he was head of PepsiCo's beverage division, he made a splash by paying Michael Jackson $5 million to moonwalk for Pepsi-Cola, strengthening the...
The money you'll need for a year's tuition ($3,243)[1] and room and board ($4,530)[1] is only the beginning.
David Novak, vice chairman and president of Tricon, is no stranger to creating and promoting big-time brands. At PepsiCo, Novak worked on Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew and two of the chains that would b...
Quick: Which fast-food company has the most outlets? Bet you got it wrong. With 25,000 locations spread from Cyprus to Guam, McDonald's comes in second. The surprise winner? Tricon Global Restauran...
Deep within Pizza Hut's sepia-tinted, mirrored Dallas headquarters, food scientists in white lab coats rip open boxes of ingredients. One man picks through hundreds of seemingly identical mushroom ...
On the day McDonald's announced that Jack Greenberg would replace Mike Quinlan as chief executive, Greenberg picked up his phone and called the company's 20 largest shareholders. To each one, he sp...
Picture this: Fifteen years ago you save your younger brother from a job of scouting new pizza toppings for Pizza Hut and hook him up with a company that later becomes a $14.5 billion electronic em...
At last month's American International Toy Fair in New York City, one of the highlights was Arturo Torres, founder of San Antonio-based Play-by-Play. At 61, Torres controls more than 50% of the car...
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There are three reasons to suspect that running PepsiCo's restaurant empire--due to be spun off as a stand-alone company this fall--is one of the most daunting jobs in corporate America. The first ...
In January, when PepsiCo CEO Roger Enrico disclosed his plan to spin off his restaurant division--KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut--observers asked why he'd jettison a huge enterprise ($10 billion in ...
As the accompanying story explains, when you buy a franchise you make a trade-off. In return for a great idea and expert advice on running your business, you must sign a contract written by the fra...
Ms. Cindy Crawford c/o PepsiCo Purchase, New York 10577 Dear Cindy,
The lure of 20 million potential customers is leading companies to the World Wide Web, an Internet information service on which they can offer electronic catalogues and other marketing material com...
The modern manager struggles in an informational vortex, buffeted by gales of data on sales, costs, inventories, markets, and demographics. As microchips, modems, and bar codes become more nearly u...
It isn't easy to be a stockholder these days. For a while it seemed the Dow Jones industrial average was recovering from its 10% fall earlier this year, advancing from a low of 3593 in early April ...
NOW WHAT? Nothing lasts forever, not even the wave of restructuring and reengineering that has engulfed American business for the past decade. Sure, the daily paper still brings news of companies f...
You've probably never heard of Advo, but the Windsor, Conn. firm (estimated 1993 revenues: $845 million) has almost certainly heard of you. Each week, Advo, the nation's leading direct marketer, fl...
Susie Mae Lundy, 71, has nine reasons to be proud: The kids she raised with husband Willie J. Smith, 73, a Baptist pastor. The couple, living in one of New Orleans's poorest neighborhoods, set entr...
Looking to use a real-life Joe or Jane Blow rather than an actor to pitch your products? You could try Laura Slutsky, 40. The CEO and founder of PeopleFinders, a New York City firm, has discovered ...
The Soviet upheaval is an unsettling reminder that political instability goes hand in hand with global business. Business Risks International (BRI), a Nashville company that specializes in security...
OUR GOAL is simply to be the best consumer products company in the world,'' says PepsiCo Chief Executive Wayne Calloway. Is he joking? Doesn't everybody know from the Coke vs. Pepsi battles that Ca...
IT'S THRILLING to have a front-row seat on history-in-the-making -- even if just for an inning or two. For me, that opportunity came last month when I was invited by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Robe...
Pizza Hut is creating a real appetite for learning. More than half of U.S. elementary schools participate in the chain's Book It! reading incentive program. Teachers set individual monthly goals fo...
With some of the world's best-known brand names, swiftly growing sales and earnings, and video commercials by Michael Jackson and boxer Mike Tyson, PepsiCo has a lot going for it. What the company ...
Some big players in the fast-food industry are on starvation rations. Wendy's International and Pillsbury's Burger King, both facing slumping per-store sales and falling profits, have been switchin...
Anthony Dub
PIZZA is America's favorite home-delivered fare, and the battle among purveyors is as hot as the pies they promise. Domino's, a Michigan-based franchiser, is the delivery champion, sending $1.1 bil...
With many economists predicting slow growth, no growth or even a recession in the months ahead, no-surprise stocks -- ones that can be counted on to deliver healthy earnings increases -- are more a...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetically engineered vaccine for humans, a drug developed by Chiron of Emeryville, California, to ward off hepatitis-B, an often fatal virus th...
Richard M. Fuscone When Fuscone, 34, joined Merrill Lynch Money Markets in 1979, the brokerage giant was last among the six major houses that marketed the short-term corporate notes known as commer...
Moments in Marketing SPARTANBURG, S.C.--A Pizza Hut commercial showing a condemned prisoner eating a pizza for his last meal was pulled off the air here after a condemned prisoner did indeed order ...
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