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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001041061-25-000120"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:21:58.934266+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yum! Brands amends bylaws on special meetings, director nominations, and board procedures

## Summary
- Shareholders requesting a special meeting must first ask Board to fix a record date.
- Director nominations for 2026 annual meeting must be submitted Jan 15–Feb 14, 2026.
- Board can require director candidates to be interviewed within 10 days of request.
- Special board meetings may be called by CEO, President, CFO, or any two directors; 24-hour notice required.
- Presiding officer may adjourn shareholder meetings at any time for any reason.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001041061-25-000120
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000120/0001041061-25-000120-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000120/yum-20251121.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001041061-25-000120.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  YUM BRANDS INC: Amended and restated bylaws to modify special meeting request mechanics, adjournment provisions, advance notice deadlines for director nominations and other business, director eligibility interview requirement, special board meeting calling authority, and notice period (effective 2025-11-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-21
  source text: On November 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Yum! Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended Bylaws”), effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000120/0001041061-25-000120-index.htm

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