---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-067752"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T01:25:21.317875+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# David Gibbs to retire as Yum! Brands CEO in Q1 2026; board starts succession search

## Summary
- Gibbs informed board on March 26, 2025 of retirement plan; will continue as CEO until Q1 2026.
- Board formed succession planning committee; no successor named yet.
- Under Gibbs, digital sales exceeded $30B in 2024 with >50% digital channel sales.
- Annual net new unit development tripled during tenure to over 61,000 units globally.
- Gibbs was CEO since Jan 2020; led company through COVID-19 and digital transformation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-067752
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000119312525067752/0001193125-25-067752-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000119312525067752/d848930d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-067752
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-067752.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-067752.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Gibbs departed as Chief Executive Officer at YUM BRANDS INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 26, 2025, David Gibbs, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, informed the Board of Directors of his intention to retire in 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000119312525067752/0001193125-25-067752-index.htm

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