IMI nets two top supplier awards - 9 June 2005
Yum! Brands, Inc. the world's largest restaurant company, has awarded IMI Cornelius their highest honour as Global Equipment Supplier of the Year. In addition, the company was also awarded Equipment Supplier of the Year award to the Yum! owned A&W/Long John Silver chain of restaurants.
Cornelius supplies the Yum! Group with refrigeration and food dispense equipment to its worldwide network of restaurants and fast food outlets. Cornelius, one of Yum's top suppliers, received the awards at a banquet in Dallas last month.
Yum! Brands, Inc. operate over 33,000 restaurants in over one hundred countries and territories and employs more than 840,000 staff worldwide. Four of the group's restaurant brands - KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, quick-service seafood, pizza and Mexican-style food categories respectively. A&W Restaurants is the longest running quick-service franchise chain in America.
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Note to editors:
IMI plc is an international engineering business specialising in innovative solutions and services for a wide range of industrial and retail customers. Its future growth is being built on the two business areas of Fluid Controls and Retail Dispense.
IMI's operations in these two business areas share the following core characteristics: strong market positions in growing markets; the ability to be clearly differentiated from their competitors through technological innovation or after-sales service; and the provision of 'added value' through bespoke solutions rather than a high manufacturing or material content.
IMI is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is capitalised at approximately £1.4bn.
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