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YUM! BRANDS, INC.-2014Proxy Statement 11
Proxy Statement
GOVERNANCE OF THE COMPANY
How do shareholders communicate with the Board?
Shareholders and other parties interested in communicating
directly with individual directors, the non-management
directors as a group or the entire Board may do so by
writing to the Nominating and Governance Committee,
c/o Corporate Secretary, YUM! Brands, Inc�, 1441 Gardiner
Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40213� The Nominating and
Governance Committee of the Board has approved a
process for handling letters received by the Company
and addressed to individual directors, non-management
members of the Board or the Board� Under that process,
the Corporate Secretary of the Company reviews all such
correspondence and regularly forwards to a designated
individual member of the Nominating and Governance
Committee copies of all such correspondence (although
we do not forward commercial correspondence and
correspondence duplicative in nature; however, we will retain
duplicate correspondence and all duplicate correspondence
will be available for directors’ review upon their request) and
a summary of all such correspondence� The designated
director of the Nominating and Governance Committee
will forward correspondence directed to individual directors
as he or she deems appropriate� Directors may at any
time review a log of all correspondence received by the
Company that is addressed to members of the Board
and request copies of any such correspondence� Written
correspondence from shareholders relating to accounting,
internal controls or auditing matters are immediately brought
to the attention of the Company’s Audit Committee Chair and
to the internal audit department and handled in accordance
with procedures established by the Audit Committee with
respect to such matters (described below)� Correspondence
from shareholders relating to Management Planning and
Development Committee matters are referred to the Chair
of the Management Planning and Development Committee�
What are the Company’s policies on reporting of concerns regarding accounting?
The Audit Committee has established policies on reporting
concerns regarding accounting and other matters in addition
to our policy on communicating with our non-management
directors� Any person, whether or not an employee, who
has a concern about the conduct of the Company or
any of our people, with respect to accounting, internal
accounting controls or auditing matters, may, in a confidential
or anonymous manner, communicate that concern to
our General Counsel, Christian Campbell. If any person
believes that he or she should communicate with our Audit
Committee Chair, Thomas C. Nelson, he or she may do
so by writing him at c/o YUM! Brands, Inc., 1441 Gardiner
Lane, Louisville, KY 40213. In addition, a person who
has such a concern about the conduct of the Company
or any of our employees may discuss that concern on a
confidential or anonymous basis by contacting The Network
at 1 [phone]. The Network is our designated external
contact for these issues and is authorized to contact the
appropriate members of management and/or the Board
of Directors with respect to all concerns it receives. The
full text of our Policy on Reporting of Concerns Regarding
Accounting and Other Matters is available on our website
at www.yum.com/investors/governance/complaint.asp.