paced. The Fast-Food industry gains more and more appeal. As the times change so do our choices‚ and more Canadians are looking for healthier choices while living a fast paced life. In 2008 the three most commonly visited restaurants in Canada were McDonalds‚ Tim Hortons‚ and Subway. Subway is growing rapidly in Canada because of its convenience and somewhat healthier choice in diet. Food Service Industry Sale Overview As of 2008‚ there were 20‚248.4 full service restaurants in Canada and 10‚525.0
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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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Introduction The story of McDonald’s started in the early 1940s when two brothers‚ Dick and Mac McDonald‚ and Raymond Kroc founded the McDonald’s Corporation with the company motto ‘Quality‚ Service‚ Cleanliness and Value’. Most of McDonald’s restaurants are operated by franchisees or by affiliates‚ some are operating under joint-venture agreements (www.mcdonalds.com). Nowadays McDonald’s is one of the most valuable brands globally and used to be the world’s largest restaurant chain‚ before Subway
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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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is steering away franchisees and customers. The company is renowned for its fast preparation of meals for customers‚ and since the start of the business by the McDonald brothers‚ Richard and Maurice‚ themselves‚ the company underwent issues pertaining to health – campaigns against the overall fastfood industry occurred‚ launched by public interests groups‚ environmentalists‚ and consumer advocates. Apart from that‚ McDonald’s as a company suffered when franchisees demanded rights for such things as less control over store
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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‚
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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‚ Taco Bell‚ Wendy’s‚ KFC and any mid-range sit-down restaurants | * Globalization‚ expansion
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BUYER BEHAVIOUR Online Buying Behaviour BUSI22585 T2260640 1/23/2013 Word Count: 1864 This essay will discuss and evaluate the subject of consumer buying behaviour online and also the traditional methods. Firstly the paragraphs below will discuss and describe the elements of both online and traditional consumer buying behaviour using relevant theorists. Secondly‚ using relevant academic sources
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Background | 3 | PEST Analysis | 4-9 | 4Ps Strategies | 10-11 | References | 12-13 | Appendix | 14 | Company Background McDonald is a largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in the world. Approximately 68 million customers in 119 countries daily are served. The birth of McDonald began with Raymond Albert Kroc. He found two brothers (Richard and Maurice McDonald) who run a hamburger restaurant and acquired the franchising right from them to run McDonald’s restaurant. In 1955‚ McDonald’s
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1. Executive Summary This case study seeks to evaluate the interests of various stakeholders of McDonald’s Corporation‚ its relation and impact to the organisation’s sustainability‚ with recommendations aimed at propelling the organization into a sustainable corporation. Among the strategic issues affecting sustainability are identified as obesity‚ advertisements targeting children‚ environmental pollution and treatments of animals. These and others factors have pressured McDonald’s to shift to
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