---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001041061-25-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:22:18.759116+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yum! Brands appoints incoming CEO Chris Turner to Board, amends bylaws

## Summary
- David Gibbs resigns as director effective Oct 1, 2025; no disagreement with Company.
- Chris Turner appointed director effective Oct 1, 2025, same day he becomes CEO.
- Bylaws amended: shareholder notice rules for director nominations, eliminate Vice Chair, clarify Chair role, add Chief Legal Officer.
- Gibbs will remain as executive advisor to Yum! through 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001041061-25-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000073/0001041061-25-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000073/yum-20250822.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001041061-25-000073.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  YUM BRANDS INC: Amended and restated bylaws to address Rule 14a-19 shareholder notice requirements, eliminate Vice Chair position, clarify Chair role, and add Chief Legal Officer role (effective 2025-08-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-08-22
  source text: On August 22, 2025, the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000073/0001041061-25-000073-index.htm

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