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Yum! Brands Announces New ''YUMFECTA'' $1 Million Bonus for Kentucky Derby Winner That Beats Barbaro's Winning Distance of 6 1/2 Lengths
Yum! Brands, Inc., (NYSE:YUM), the world's largest restaurant company in
terms of units, and parent of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John
Silver's and A&W Restaurants, announced today the YUMFECTA for the 133rd
Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands.
The YUMFECTA is a new, $1-million bonus that will be paid by Yum! Brands
to any horse that wins this year’s Kentucky
Derby and beats 2006 Derby winner Barbaro’s
winning margin of 6 ½ lengths over Bluegrass
Cat.
YUMFECTA is the first bonus tied solely to the Derby race, margin of
victory and winnings where the $1 million will be split evenly between
the horse’s owner (25%), trainer (25%),
jockey (25%) and charitable nonprofit organization, the NTRA Charities –
Barbaro Memorial Fund (25%).
Barbaro’s 2006 winning margin of 6 ½
lengths during last year’s Kentucky Derby was
the biggest since 1946 when Assault won by 8 lengths. It was also the 5th
largest winning margin in 132 years of the Kentucky Derby’s
history.
The world fell in love with Barbaro at last year’s
Kentucky Derby. While his injury during the Preakness dashed all hopes
of winning the Triple Crown, millions held their breath as he gallantly
tried to recover. Tragically, Barbaro lost his battle, but his legacy as
a champion lives.
"We’re really
excited about our second year as presenting sponsor of the Kentucky
Derby – it’s the
greatest two minutes in sports and a perfect way to create awareness
among individual investors,” said David C.
Novak, Chairman and CEO, Yum! Brands, Inc. "While
just about everybody knows KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, not everyone
knows Yum! Brands. Barbaro was such a hero, winning the hearts of
Americans and those around the world, we wanted to celebrate that
victory. You’ve heard of the Perfecta,
Trifecta and Superfecta – now there’s
the ultimate million-dollar YUMFECTA. We hope there will be a
million-dollar YUMFECTA winner at this year’s
Kentucky Derby,” said Novak.
"Churchill Downs Incorporated is again
pleased to partner with Yum! Brands in the presentation of America's
greatest horse race, the Kentucky Derby,”
said Churchill Downs Incorporated President and Chief Executive Officer
Bob Evans. "Besides being long-time
supporters of the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs racing, David Novak
and his team at Yum! Brands are helping us raise national awareness for
the 'Greatest Two Minutes in Sports' through this season's YUMFECTA
promotion. There will be even more excitement watching this year's
Kentucky Derby field race towards the finish line, knowing that another
$1 million is at stake for the winning connections and The Barbaro
Memorial Fund, which was established to advance medical treatment for
horses of all breeds and abilities in the name of Barbaro, the heroic
colt who claimed the roses and the hearts of millions of racing fans one
year ago in Derby 132.”
The Barbaro Memorial Fund, established by the National Thoroughbred
Racing Association, is a national fundraising program to raise awareness
and money for equine health and safety research in the name of Barbaro,
whose gallant struggle to overcome a catastrophic injury following the
second leg of the Triple Crown captivated horse enthusiasts around the
world.
Yum! Brands became the first-ever presenting sponsor of the Kentucky
Derby in 2006 because it is a premier sporting event watched by millions
of people around the globe. Traditional Kentucky Derby television
viewers match the profile of individual investors who may be interested
in purchasing shares of YUM Brands.
Individual investors typically buy shares of companies whose products
they loyally consume. While KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant
brands have more than 90% awareness, many investors do not know that
Yum! Brands is the parent company that owns them.
At the end of 2006, Yum! Brands had 268 million shares outstanding,
traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s
stock has increased 20% on a 5-year compounded annual growth rate
through 2006.
Individual investors tend to hold onto stock longer and invest in
companies they know with products they use. Yum! Brands’
individual investor base is only about 20%, the balance held by
institutional investors. The company’s goal
is to increase that individual investor number to as much as 30% over
time.
Yum! Brands is airing five 30-second television commercials with the
message "The world says Yum!”
on Saturday, May 5, on NBC and in programming leading up to the Kentucky
Derby on ESPN and ESPN 2. The ads will run in six different time slots
before, during and after the race, including an ad immediately prior to
the historic Kentucky Derby race. Also as part of the sponsorship
agreement, the Company has logo placement around the track and on
television billboards before and throughout the broadcast.
On Derby Day, Yum! Brands, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s
and A&W Restaurants logos will again appear across the entire
third-floor railing of Churchill Down’s third
floor clubhouse. Additionally, the YUM Brands logo will appear on the
starting gate; finish line; main tote boards; paddock tote boards,
saddle blanket and on the jackets of the pony riders who escort the
Kentucky Derby horses and jockeys during the post parade. David Novak
will be invited into the Winners Circle with Kentucky Governor Ernie
Fletcher and Churchill CEO Robert Evans, to present the trophy to the
owner of the Kentucky Derby winning horse.
The Kentucky Derby, which holds the distinction of being America's
longest continuously held sporting event, has been run without
interruption at Churchill Downs since the track's first race meet in
1875. The race for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds offers a $2
million-guaranteed purse.
Yum! Brands Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world’s
largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over
34,000 restaurants, which includes over 2,000 licensed restaurants, in
more than 100 countries and territories. Four of the company’s
restaurant brands — KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell
and Long John Silver’s —
are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food and
quick-service seafood categories respectively. Yum! Brands is the
worldwide leader in multibranding, which offers consumers more choice
and convenience at one restaurant location from a combination of KFC,
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, A&W or Long John Silver’s
brands. The company and its franchisees today operate over 3,400
multibrand restaurants. Outside the United States in 2006, the Yum!
Brands’ system opened about three new
restaurants each day of the year, making it one of the fastest growing
retailers in the world. For the past four years, the company has been
recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s
"Top 50 Employers for Minorities.”
It also has been recognized as one of the "Top
50 Employers for Women” by Fortune,
one of the "40 Best Companies for Diversity”
by Black Enterprise Magazine for the past two years, one of
Black Enterprise Magazine’s "30
Hottest Franchises for 2006, one of the "Corporate
100 Companies Providing Opportunities for Hispanics”
by Hispanic Magazine, one of the "Top
50 Corporations for Supplier Diversity” by
Hispanic Trends Magazine and by BusinessWeek as one of the "Top
15 Companies for In-Kind Corporate Philanthropy.”
Churchill Downs, the world’s most legendary
racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America’s
greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in
Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated
(NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill
Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track.
Churchill Downs will conduct the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby on
May 5, 2007. The track’s 2007 Spring Meet is
set for April 28 through July 8. Churchill Downs has hosted the Breeders’
Cup World Championships a record six times. Information about Churchill
Downs can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldowns.com. Video b-roll is available at the following times and coordinates: Monday, April 30, 2007
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