date:Jul 17, 2014
ng profit last year.
The India division's same-restaurant sales fell 2 percent, versus the 1.6 percent gain that analysts expected.
Yum has been in India for more than a decade. It had 714 total units in the country at the end of the second quarter, including KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants.
India is a competitive environment and Yum is investing aggressively in that market, spokesman Jonathan Blum told Reuters.
Same-restaurant sales were up 2 percent for Taco Bell and down 3 percen