Yum Brands Names Aaron Powell CEO of Pizza Hut
August 26 2021 - 9:47AM
Dow Jones News
By Colin Kellaher
Yum Brands Inc. on Thursday said it named Aaron Powell chief
executive of its global Pizza Hut division, plucking the executive
from Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Mr. Powell, 50 years old, takes the helm at Pizza Hut on Sept.
20 after serving as president of Kimberly-Clark's Asia-Pacific
consumer business since March 2020.
Yum, the Louisville, Ky., parent of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco
Bell, earlier this year launched a search for a new Pizza Hut chief
after Artie Starrs left to become CEO at Callaway Golf Co.'s
Topgolf Entertainment unit.
Yum said Kevin Hochman, president and chief concept officer of
KFC U.S. and interim president of Pizza Hut U.S., and Vipul Chawla,
president of Pizza Hut international, will report to Mr.
Powell.
Kimberly-Clark said Tristram Wilkinson, currently president of
its Europe, Middle East and Africa consumer business, will succeed
Mr. Powell as president of the Asia-Pacific business, taking
responsibility for the Irving, Texas, company's largest
international region. Kimberly-Clark said it plans to name a
successor to Mr. Wilkinson in the EMEA post in the near future.
Write to Colin Kellaher at colin.kellaher@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 26, 2021 09:41 ET (13:41 GMT)
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