While the other brands under Yum! have also performed well during the past few years, KFC alone generated $16 billion in system sales in 2015. Globally, the financial performance of KFC has been strong. China holds strong long term potential and KFC is working aggressively to exploit it. Overall, it has more than 5000 restaurants open across more than 1100 cities in the country. It opened 743 restaurants in China in 2015 and was planning to open 600 more in 2016.
In Asia too, the brand has seen very fast growth, with China being at the centre of its Asian expansion story.
