Bloomberg Kate Spade & Co. shares surged the most in more than two years after Dow Jones reported that the luxury handbag maker is working with bankers to explore a sale of the company. The company has been under pressure from shareholders to find an acquirer amid a failure to boost profit margins. It is working with an investment ...

  Bloomberg US fast-food giant Yum! Brands Inc. plans to refranchise its KFC restaurant business in Turkey as part of a global shift away from owning its own outlets. KFC Turkey will increasingly grow through its franchisees, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company said in an e-mailed response to questions, without providing details. Yum, which also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco ...

  Santiago / AFP Qatar Airways bought a 10-percent stake in LATAM, the largest airline in Latin America, the Chilean-Brazilian company said. The investment, first announced last July, amounts to 60.8 million shares at a price of $10 each, LATAM said in a statement. The airline — the product of a 2012 merger between Chile’s LAN and Brazil’s TAM — ...