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Coronavirus Update: Yum Works With Franchisees On Payments; Workers, Mayors Impact Food Production
Coronavirus // March 24, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic impacts sales, Yum Brands is working to help some franchisees and halting its share repurchase program. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) company said in a filing its comparable-store sales will likely fall in Q1 in a range of mid- to high-single digits, Bloomberg...

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dLocal Sees Promise in Brazil as Payment Volumes Jump

August 16, 2023
For payments services provider dLocal, Brazil represents the past and the future. “As you know, Brazil is where we started, seven years ago,” Maria Oldham, the company’s senior vice president of corporate development, investor relations and strategic finance, said during an earnings call Wednesday (Aug. 16). “It is also a highly developed market in terms of digital payments penetration […]

Coronavirus Update: Yum Works With Franchisees On Payments; Workers, Mayors Impact Food Production

March 24, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic impacts sales, Yum Brands is working to help some franchisees and halting its share repurchase program. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) company said in a filing its comparable-store...