MCDONALD’S LEADERSHIP PRACTICES McDonald’s: a name synonymous with fast food‚ quality and innovation. McDonald’s is known worldwide for its Golden Arches symbol and its mascot‚ Ronald McDonald. Two brothers from Southern California‚ Dick and Maurice McDonald‚ started operating a hot dog/hamburger stand at the Monrovia Airport. Eventually outgrowing that location‚ they moved the stand to San Bernadino. Realizing that hamburgers were their most popular product‚ the brothers reinvented their
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operation | * Legal actions related to health issues | * Play area for Children | * They have yet to capitalize on the trend towards organic foods | * Specialized training for managers known as the Hamburger University | | * Ronald McDonald Children’s Charity * Business relationships with toy manufactures i.e. Barbie‚ Disney‚ Hotwheels | | Opportunities: | Threats: | * Growing health trends among consumers i.e. salads | * Major competitors‚ like Burger King‚ Starbucks‚
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Case Study #1 McDonalds’s “Senior’s” 08/07/2011 McDonalds “Seniors” Restaurant Bridgett Bowen is the owner of a McDonalds restaurant that is open to public but recently the main clientele of the Bowens restaurant has been seniors. She would like to develop a marketing strategy that addresses the needs of her senior citizen patrons and also the regular everyday customer. However‚ she is looking for additional recommendations to improve her marketing
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PRICING STRATEGIES Global pricing is one of the most critical and complex issues that McDonald’s faces since price is the only marketing mix instruments that create revenues while all other elements entail costs. A multinational company such as McDonald’s also faces the challenges of how to coordinate their pricing across different countries because of the fact that a company’s global pricing policy may make or break its overseas expansion efforts. In this case‚ McDonald’s is using Value-Pricing
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2 Brief History 3 McDonalds’ today 4 McDonalds’ Pakistan 5 DEPARMENTS 6 Operations (equipment and franchising) 6 Marketing (sales marketing) 7 Development (property and construction) 7 Finance (supply chain and new product development) 7 Information Technology 8 Purchasing 8 Training 8 What McDonalds’ do with its Profits? 8 Hierarchy of McDonalds’ 9 ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT 10 Hierarchy of Accounting Department 11 How profit is measured in McDonalds’? 11 Financial Statements
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Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Company (i) Company Background McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 119 countries each day. While Ray Kroc was the founder of McDonald. The story of McDonald’s first began in 1955 when Ray Kroc opened the first restaurant in Des Plaines‚ Illinois. It then grew on to be a worldwide corporation spanning 117 countries and serving more than 60 million customers everyday. In December
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SWOT analysis of McDonalds. Having one of the most favorite burgers in the world‚ McDonalds is a brand which will hardly be missed by anyone. The SWOT of Mcdonalds discusses the reasons that the firm has been able to achieve this height of fame‚ and why‚ be it breakfast‚ lunch or dinner‚ people may prefer the local McDonalds STRENGTH Brand Equity…world-wide 42% of US fast-food hamburger business Consistency of food Successful items: Fries‚ Happy Meal‚ Big Mac‚ Egg McMuffin‚ Promotions Overseas
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competitors. Business Week Magazine even ranked McDonald’s as "one of the ten most recognized brands in the world"‚ a position that creates significant opportunities for the company. An important strength that continues to have the most dramatic impact on McDonalds is their top level management. Even though this is classified an as internal strength‚ McDonald’s has capitalized on a management style that helps to infuse a strong culture. A dynamic aspect of the McDonald’s culture is the willingness to innovate
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back-to-basics approach of quickly serving up burgers‚ just burgers‚ for timeless consumers. McDonald¶s was gathering flak from environmentalists who decried all the litter and solid waste its restaurants generated each day To counter some of the criticism‚ McDonald¶s partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to explore new ways to make its operations more friendly to the environment. Together‚ EDF and McDonald¶s considered its impact on a wide range of stakeholders²customers‚ suppliers‚ franchisees
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BEYOND THE GOLDEN ARCHES: A McDonalds Marketing Breakdown "That night in my motel room I did a lot of heavy thinking about what I’d seen during the day. Visions of McDonald’s restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country and world paraded through my brain." (Ray Kroc) Kroc’s aim for McDonalds was far more than fulfilled. Today‚ it is the leading global food service retailer with 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 119 countries. There are 3 very important
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