Entrepreneur

Pizza Hut Just Went Private in a $2.7 Billion Sale — Here’s the Turnaround Plan

Pizza Hut is officially a private company again. Yum! Brands completed its $1.5 billion sale of Pizza Hut’s operations outside mainland China to private equity firm LongRange Capital, following a ...
Fast Company

Pizza Hut closed hundreds of stores last year: See where restaurants shuttered as new ownership takes effect

In June, fast-food restaurant giant Yum Brands announced it would sell Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital. Yesterday, LongRange Capital announced it had completed its acquisition. The ...
AOL

The Old-School Pizza Chain That Wanted To Laser Its Logo Onto The Moon

For as long as humans have watched the night sky, we have looked at the moon to mark time, navigate, tell stories, and contemplate our place in the universe. At the close of the last millennium, Pizza ...
The Guardian

Goodbye to the Soviet Union – archive, 1991

On 2 September 1991, the Congress of People’s Deputies voted for the dissolution of the Soviet Union, allowing its republics to opt for independence By Jonathan Steele in Moscow 3 September 1991 The ...
Marketing Dive

Pizza Hut ads celebrate quarterbacks as chain drops ‘pizza’ from name

Yum’s sale of the Pizza Hut business outside of mainland China to private equity firm LongRange Capital is set to close by the end of August. As the separation creeps closer, Pizza Hut is leaning on a ...
Entrepreneur

Pizza Hut Is Dropping ‘Pizza’ From Its Name for 25 Weeks — Here’s the Reason Why

The rebrand comes as parent company Yum! Brands is in the process of selling Pizza Hut. Private equity firm LongRange Capital agreed to buy the chain’s operations outside mainland China for about $1.5 ...
People

Pizza Hut Is Temporarily Changing Its Name for the NFL Season: ‘Hut Hut’

The temporary change comes months after Pizza Hut was sold for $2.7 billion Pizza Hut/Instagram Pizza Hut has temporarily rebranded as “Hut Hut” for 25 weeks during the NFL season The name change ...
MLive

National pizza chain makes surprising name change

Pizza Hut announced this week that it is temporarily dropping “Pizza” from its name ahead of football season when it will simply go by “Hut.” The branding isn’t permanent with pizza returning to the ...
Fox Business Network

Pizza Hut makes surprising change to iconic name ahead of NFL season

Pizza Hut is temporarily dropping "Pizza" from its name as the restaurant chain leans into football season while its parent company moves ahead with a multibillion-dollar sale of the iconic brand. The ...
The Daily Beast

Pizza Hut Makes Bonkers New Name Change

Pizza Hut is dropping “Pizza” from its name as the chain begins a temporary football-themed makeover. The franchise is going simply by “HUT” to mark the start of football season, covering the word ...
New York Post

Pizza Hut gets major name ‘change’ and a new look — see why the rebrand won’t last long

Pizza Hut is ditching “pizza,” at least for now. The popular pizza chain announced Wednesday that it will be dropping “pizza” from its name to go simply by “hut.” The temporary change coincides with ...
Business Insider

The rise and fall of an American Legend: How the US fell out of love with Pizza Hut

Highway 321 runs like a lifeline through Pigeon Forge, a tourist town in the US state of Tennessee. On either side of the road, at the foot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, amusement parks sit ...