KFC and Pizza Hut owner and Heineken pause business in Russia

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Mothercare and Universal Music also among latest round of firms to halt operations after invasion of Ukraine

It said it was suspending 70 KFC company-owned restaurants inand finalising an agreement to suspend all 50 Pizza Hut outlets in partnership with its master franchisee.

Pizza Hut opened its first Russian outlet at the start of the 1990s and the former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev was featured in one of its television adverts in 1998.Heineken said on Wednesday that it had stopped the production and sale of its own-brand beer in Russia, after previously halting all new investments and exports to the country. The Dutch brewer is taking immediate steps to ringfence its Russian operations from its wider business.

The musician Sting has added his voice to the growing number of celebrities showing their support for Ukraine,of himself singing his 1985 song Russians, saying he “never thought it would be relevant again”. He ended his message by saying: “We, all of us, love our children. Stop the war.” for the safety of its 600 staff there. Russia and Ukraine accounted for 2% of the firm’s net revenues last year, or £656m.McDonald’s is also. The company said it would continue to pay its 62,000 Russia-based employees.

 

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