Yum! Brands Names Michael Liewen Vice President, Quality Assurance: Liewen to Lead Yum's Food Standards Council.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today announced the appointment of Michael Liewen, 50, to Vice President, Quality Assurance, a newly created position reporting to Greg Creed, the company's Chief Operating Officer.

Since 1989 he has worked at General Mills in various leadership positions, most recently as Director, Quality and Regulatory Operations for their Meals Division where he led a $2.2 billion business unit and was responsible for all aspects of quality assurance, food safety and regulatory compliance for six company-owned manufacturing locations, contract operations, corporate staff and programs. While there, he optimized the company's effectiveness, created greater consistency and productivity in plant operations and increased consumer satisfaction.

At Yum! Brands, he will work in partnership with the restaurant division Chief Food Innovation Officers (CFIOs) and their teams to ensure food quality, safety and regulatory compliance for Yum's worldwide operations.

In addition, he will lead the Yum! Brands Food Standards Council. The Council identifies global resources, internal and external, to review Yum's Food Safety Standards, ensure compliance and shares best practices.

"Michael is a highly respected and accomplished food industry professional with 20 years of diverse management and technical experience," said Greg Creed, Chief Operating Officer, Yum! Brands, Inc. "He brings tremendous leadership, strategic thinking and a proven track record of success to our organization. We are extremely fortunate to have someone of his caliber in this key role," added Creed.

During his tenure at General Mills, Liewen served as Director, Quality and Regulatory Operations, Refrigerated Products and Foodservice from April 1997 until October 2001. Prior to that he held positions including Regional Manager, Quality and Regulator Operations, Gold Medal Division; Senior Quality Engineer, for Cereal and Dry Mix Operations and Start-Up Director and Manager of Microbiology and Nutrition Analysis. He is a recipient of the Chairman's Award, General Mill's highest honor for groundbreaking innovation and productivity.

Liewen is a Certified Quality Engineer from the American Society for Quality and received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin. He is active in professional organizations and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Frozen Food Institute.

He will begin working at Yum! Brands on June 5, 2006.

Yum! Brands Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 34,000 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 3,300 multibrand restaurants. Outside the United States in 2005, 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 three 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 "Top 30 Best Companies for Diversity" by BLACK ENTERPRISE Magazine, 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."