New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Restaurant Brands has reported a half-year trading profit after tax of $4.6 million - 14.7 per cent down on the previous period. Profit including non-trading items was $2.4 million for the half-year ended September 8, down 47.3...
Hitwise (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Pizza Hut made the headlines earlier in the week after rebranding itself as Pasta Hut in the UK. If the move really is just a clever bit of PR, as some people suspect, then it seems to have worked. In addition to significant media coverage, the company has also benefitted online: as the chart below illustrates, yesterday the Pasta Hut website received twice as many UK Internet visits as the Pizza Hut...
BIMA Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It would have been hard to miss the rebranding of Pizza Hut into Pasta Hut just out this week…unless you tried to find their website using the internationally recognised .com domain. The marketing team were obviously poorly advised in terms of protecting their brand online and only own pastahut.co.uk. The .com, .net and .org domains [...]
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pizza Hut opened its new Oxford store Monday, replacing a building built in the 1970s. The old building next door was torn down for more parking spaces.
The Visible Hand (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Given that we could be entering a global recession, it’s not surprising to companies rationlaising their corporate strategy. However one thing that has caught me by surprise is the article I saw on stuff about Pizza hut rebranding as Pasta hut. This seamed particularly interesting given a recent post I read over by Gen Y [...]
The Sun (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
PIZZA Hut becomes Pasta Hut - but are its dishes a real rival for healthier Italians?
Noisy Decent Graphics (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Look carefully on the top left. Pizza Hut has changed it's name to Pasta Hut. No joke of a lie. Pizza Hut is now Pasta Hut. Go to the website and watch the cheesiest flash video (again top left) of...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Pizza Hut is rebranding itself as Pasta Trough in a radical overhaul of its corporate image and menu offerings. Logos have been replaced at corporate headquarters in Dallas and new signs are being installed at the chain's outlets worldwide. Asked...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Pis changing its name in a bid to overhaul the company's image and menu, it announced in Manchester today.
nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Pizza Hut is now being called Pasta Hut, I'm sure I'll adapt just as quickly as I did when Virgin became Zavvi (I always had the right letters just in the wrong order). Pasta Hut, done because pizza is presumably now evil sinful food..... I mean viewed as not completely healthy, appears to place the chain in a slightly different market place. The likes of Bella Italia will be its slightly
TechNology News By SeveNSize (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Fast-food company Yum Brands Inc. said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit grew 5 percent as surging sales in its operations in China more than offset a sharp decline in U.S. results.The parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut reported worldwide same-store sales growth of 3 percent, marking its 20th straight quarter of global same-store sales growth.Net income for the three months ending
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc , the parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, posted higher third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, but forecast that U.S. profits will decline about 8 percent for the full year.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Fast-food company Yum Brands Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit grew by 5 percent, led by surging sales in its China operations that offset a decline in U.S. results. The parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut reported net income of $282...
Framed (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
For the last ten years, I've enjoyed picking my sons up from school at lunchtime and taking them to the nearby Pizza Hut for the lunch buffet there. My schedule this semester doesn't permit me to do that as often...
razorshine (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
I just read an article on the Telegraph about how Pizza Hut is changing its name to Pasta Hut. I had to check the date on the article to make sure it wasn’t April 1st! It turns out that they are trialling it in 30 of its branches to see if they can actually move [...]
