Shortly after McDonald's celebrated its 30-year presence in France, the fast-food chain is conquering one of the country's most valued cultural institutions --the Louvre.
While the latest headlines from McDonald's may be distinctly American -- its $4 Angus Burger recently debuted with much fanfare -- it's abroad and not at home that McDonald's has been doing its best business during this recession.
For years, hospitals have embodied a paradox.
• After dazzling in an Oscar de la Renta gown on the red carpet at the Berlin International Film Festival, Blake Lively skipped off for a bite to eat with equally dressed-up boyfriend Penn Badgley. The duo left Lively's Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiere to grab a burger at McDonald's in all their finery!
The Venezuelan government's tax body has closed more than 100 McDonald's restaurants in the South American country for two days because of alleged inconsistencies in the fast-food chain's financial books.
Overseas consumers spent more at McDonald's Corp. in August, leading the nation's No. 1 hamburger chain to surprise investors by posting a big rise in global same-store sales
Despite a tough U.S. economy, McDonald's Corp. posted an 8 percent gain in July same-store sales on Friday as hungry consumers worldwide lined up for breakfast items and the classic Big Mac sandwich
The next time you're in Brazil, say, or Italy or Portugal, and feeling like a taste of Americana, stop off at a local McDonald's restaurant and order a Big Tasty burger. As the name suggests, it's a giant sandwich consisting of a 5.5-ounce beef patty slathered in smoky barbecue sauce. Once you include the square-chopped lettuce, tomatoes, and three slices of cheese, it all adds up to a whopping 840 calories.
Don't assume that McDonald's is recession proof simply because it's a cheap place to eat.
McDonald's has begun serving up lattes and chai at its new McCafÉ, while Starbucks is now selling sausage, egg and cheese breakfasts. Is this a turf war?
Shortly after McDonald's celebrated its 30-year presence in France, the fast-food chain is conquering one of the country's most valued cultural institutions --the Louvre.
While the latest headlines from McDonald's may be distinctly American -- its $4 Angus Burger recently debuted with much fanfare -- it's abroad and not at home that McDonald's has been doing its best business during this recession.
For years, hospitals have embodied a paradox.
• After dazzling in an Oscar de la Renta gown on the red carpet at the Berlin International Film Festival, Blake Lively skipped off for a bite to eat with equally dressed-up boyfriend Penn Badgley. The duo left Lively's Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiere to grab a burger at McDonald's in all their finery!
The Venezuelan government's tax body has closed more than 100 McDonald's restaurants in the South American country for two days because of alleged inconsistencies in the fast-food chain's financial books.
Overseas consumers spent more at McDonald's Corp. in August, leading the nation's No. 1 hamburger chain to surprise investors by posting a big rise in global same-store sales
Despite a tough U.S. economy, McDonald's Corp. posted an 8 percent gain in July same-store sales on Friday as hungry consumers worldwide lined up for breakfast items and the classic Big Mac sandwich
The next time you're in Brazil, say, or Italy or Portugal, and feeling like a taste of Americana, stop off at a local McDonald's restaurant and order a Big Tasty burger. As the name suggests, it's a giant sandwich consisting of a 5.5-ounce beef patty slathered in smoky barbecue sauce. Once you include the square-chopped lettuce, tomatoes, and three slices of cheese, it all adds up to a whopping 840 calories.
Don't assume that McDonald's is recession proof simply because it's a cheap place to eat.
McDonald's has begun serving up lattes and chai at its new McCafÉ, while Starbucks is now selling sausage, egg and cheese breakfasts. Is this a turf war?
Stocks inched higher Monday morning, as investors crept back into select areas of the market after last week's rough start to 2008.
Stocks rallied Monday afternoon, led by the financial and housing sectors, as investors welcomed a stronger-than-expected pending home sales report and geared up for Tuesday's expected interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
Stock gains accelerated Monday morning, as investors scooped up a variety of issues ahead of Tuesday's expected interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
Say what you want about their French fries, McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, is one appetizing investment.
McDonald's Corp. posted a third-quarter profit Friday that met Wall Street estimates, helped by a sales boost in its overseas markets and new menu items, including breakfast offerings and sandwiches.
The Danish furniture maker Fritz Hansen is angry with the fast-food giant for using cheap copies of its chairs
It wasn't so long ago that the McDonald's fast-food empire looked as stale as a burger left under a heat lamp too long.
Blue chips led a broad advance Thursday, as investors eyed upbeat news on GM, McDonald's and Countrywide Financial - and continued to bet that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week.
McDonald's Corp. stock surged to an all-time high Thursday after the fast-food chain announced the largest dividend increase in its history and pledged to return more money to shareholders than Wall Street expected.
Blue chips lead a broader stock advance early Thursday afternoon, as an upgrade of GM and McDonald's improved dividend-tempered concerns about record-high oil prices and a plunging U.S. dollar.
The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space.
Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. said Tuesday its global same-store sales rose 8.1 percent in August.
There are certain companies everyone expects to top lists of environmentally friendly firms: Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Starbucks.
McDonald's Corp. said Wednesday that sales at restaurants open at least 13 months rose 6.5 percent in July, helped by breakfast items in both the United States and Asia.
Given a choice, toddlers say the same food tastes better if it comes out of a McDonald's bag. Nutritionists don't find that such a Happy Meal
McDonald's Corp. said June sales at outlets open at least 13 months rose 8.4 percent, helped by strong breakfast sales in America.
Lasting lessons from business leaders who've gone to the great corner office in the sky.
The burger giant declares war on the definition of 'McJob' as low-paid, dead-end employment. Its first target: the OED
McDonald's is messing with the sacred french fry -- and doing it for our own good.
Fast-food chain McDonald's is testing a bigger high-end Angus burger that costs a little bit more for the extra weight, according to a published report Wednesday.
In a couple of weeks a movie about the evils of fast food will open across the United States. "Fast Food Nation" -- based on the bestseller of the same title by Eric Schlosser -- has an all-star cast and horror tales aplenty about contaminated meat and the tribulations of illegal Mexican slaughterhouse workers.
An NFL coach, his wife and the family's nanny are suing a McDonald's franchisee, alleging they found a dead rat in a salad purchased at his Southlake, Texas, restaurant, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Planning to over-indulge this weekend? Here's how to avoid the worst of it.
McDonald's ranks no. 318 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $20.5 billion in revenues, up 7.3% from the previous year. The Oak Brook, Illinois-based company was ranked no. 314 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $2.6 billion, up 14.2% from a year earlier.
Imagine Ronald McDonald munching on soybeans or teaching yoga.
Fast-food companies are experimenting with call center technology in an order to increase speed and sales volume, according to a report published Tuesday.
McDonald's french fries contain one third more trans fat than previously reported, according to a published report.
In a move away from its iconic burgers, McDonald's is looking to new chicken products, coffee and fresh foods such as salads and fruits to help spur sales in 2006 and beyond, the president of McDonald's North America, told a gathering Monday in New York.
If Hollywood wants its films to burn up box offices overseas, it may want to keep the hamburger house McDonald's in mind, according to a study released Monday.
Activist hedge fund manager and McDonald's shareholder Bill Ackman laid out a proposal Tuesday that the fast-food chain restructure its operations and spin off a stake in its restaurants.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would block lawsuits by people who blame fast-food chains for their obesity.
Nintendo game enthusiasts now have a new hangout.
McDonald's may be ordering up a designer makeover for all of its hamburger helpers, a news report said Tuesday.
It was tradition in Russell Rich's family that every Friday night his dad would take the kids to McDonald's.
McDonald's isn't just for burger lovers anymore.
'Would you like a ring tone with that?'
An additional tax on fast-food may be a distasteful idea for whopper-lovers but at least one major city in the Midwest is seriously considering such a proposal.
Watch out Starbucks -- McDonald's could be brewing some trouble with plans to introduce its own specialty coffee.
The Golden Arches hit a golden milestone this week.
It's the American way. Trip and fall, find a fast-talking lawyer and a gullible jury, and you too can sue somebody and get rich. Kind of like that grandma who spilled scalding-hot coffee on herself...
Remember the McDonald's "French fry" shaped like Abraham Lincoln -- the prop for those humorous ads the restaurant chain ran recently?
The British government violated the rights of two vegetarian activists convicted of libeling the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
Fast-food king McDonald's ran a jokey commercial on the Super Bowl about a french fry shaped like Abraham Lincoln. Now someone is apparently bidding $50,200 for the "Honest Abe" fry.
McDonald's may soon be going upscale with its coffee, according to a report Monday.
McDonald's built its business selling burgers and fries and more burgers and fries. While there were occasional nods to changing tastes—the Filet-O-Fish and Chicken McNuggets among them—for most of...
McDonald's, the world's number one fast-food restaurant and second-largest buyer of chicken, is studying whether to switch its chicken suppliers over to the least-cruel slaughter method, the animal rights group PETA said Tuesday.
Whether it's in bumper-to-bumper traffic or during flight delays at airports, parents traveling with youngsters will have their hands full.
Playboy.com debuted the "Women of McDonald's" feature Tuesday in which six employees from the fast-food king were chosen to pose nude for the online pictorial.
Uh oh! The "Golden Arches" have disappeared.
McDonald's Corp. on Wednesday said its third-quarter profits rose 42 percent, according to a preliminary tally, and sales at its namesake restaurants open at least a year rose 10.6 percent in September.
McDonald's is dropping the iconic "Golden Arches" logo from its advertising in Britain for the first time, the company has announced.
The documentary "Super Size Me" is opening in the United Kingdom. But McDonald's isn't fighting back the way you might expect.
After shopping at Wal-Mart and Home Depot, Playboy's latest craving is for McDonald's -- or rather for the women who work there.
McDonald's Corp. announced Wednesday it would launch later this year a new "contactless" payment option called MasterCard PayPass, which lets customers simply wave or tap the card to complete a quick transaction.
The room is white--pristinely white. We're inside the sensory panel room at Wendy's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, where employees of the $7.3 billion fast-food giant get to taste-test new products ...
Cash may be king, but the burger behemoth McDonald's Corp. is giving a little more credit to plastic at its restaurants.
McDonald's trademark golden arches had a bad case of tarnish at the start of last year.
A public interest group is suing McDonald's, charging the fast food chain with false advertising due to its promise in 2002 that it would cut the "bad" fat used in its cooking process.
As if the advertising industry didn't have enough trouble already, a new development is catching on in schools: programs to "ad-proof" children.
McDonald's Corp., the No .1 fast-food chain that's been on a mission to its revamp its image, said it will offer Coca-Cola's new low-carb "C2" cola in a limited number of its restaurants.
Diminishing respect for American culture and values is putting U.S. brands at greater risk overseas, according to a worldwide annual study of consumer sentiment.
A bomb exploded outside a McDonald's restaurant in Istanbul Thursday evening, and authorities defused two homemade bombs outside one of the company's restaurants in Rome, police in Turkey and Italy said.
Investors who bought into McDonald's (MCD, $28) ambitious turnaround plan last year are, as the fast-food giant's catchy jingle says, "lovin' it." The stock is up a Dow-stomping 133% from its March...
McDonald's gave its grown-up customers their very own Happy Meal box Tuesday that comes with water, salad and a booklet of exercise tips.
McDonald's salads and hamburgers may be juicing up sales right now, but some analysts caution the fast-food king may soon be forced to prove it can keep up the good times as comparisons get tougher.
In his first public comments since succeeding the late Jim Cantalupo, McDonald's CEO Charlie Bell told analysts Wednesday he's committed to continuing the turnaround strategy of his predecessor, and expects 2004 to be "another good year" for the company.
Investors will try to digest another batch of earnings Wednesday after a mixed session on Wall Street Tuesday as fears of a possible interest rate hike and higher gasoline prices outweighed positive corporate results.
McDonald's Corp. Tuesday posted first-quarter profits that rose 56 percent from a year earlier and met Wall Street forecasts on the back of stronger-than-expected sales at its U.S. outlets.
Japanese billionaire Den Fujita, the man who established the McDonald's fast-food chain in Japan, has died of heart failure, a company official has said.
McDonald's Corp., the world's biggest restaurant chain, has named a new CEO after Jim Cantalupo died of an apparent heart attack Monday.
U.S. stocks were mixed early Monday as investors geared up for the biggest week of S&P 500 earnings, took in the unexpected death of the CEO of McDonald's and continued to show signs of concern over the likelihood of a rise in interest rates.
The board of McDonald's Corp. named Charlie Bell chief executive after Jim Cantalupo, the leader of the recent turnaround at the world's biggest fast-food chain, died of an apparent heart attack Monday.
The board of McDonald's Corp. named Charlie Bell chief executive after Jim Cantalupo, the leader of the recent turnaround at the world's biggest fast-food chain, died of an apparent heart attack Monday.
The busiest week of first calendar quarter results kicks off Monday for Wall Street, which will also consider the death of McDonald's CEO, hints of rising interest rates and the continuing violence in Iraq as sources of market instability.
McDonald's Corp., the world's largest fast-food company, launched an anti-obesity education campaign Thursday that it said would promote the importance of exercise and balanced food intake.
U.S. stocks tanked Tuesday, with investors seeing a rising interest rate environment in the session's solid earnings and economic news.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to ban lawsuits by obese customers who say they became overweight by eating at fast-food restaurants.
Best earnings season in a decade. Ho-hum.
McDonald's has ended its endorsement deal with Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, after having not used the athlete in an ad since sexual assault charges were filed against him in Colorado last July.
Famous for exporting American convenience culture, McDonald's is now importing a successful idea from its overseas stores: gourmet coffee bars. Hoping to capture some of Starbucks's momentum, McDon...
When McDonald's (MCD, $24) said in late September that it would fatten its annual dividend by 70%--from 23 cents per share to 40--the news drew a big yawn on Wall Street. Though it was McD's larges...
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When it comes to frivolous lawsuits, McDonald's gives as good as it gets. In May the fast-food giant took Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli to court in Milan to answer libel charges for a Decemb...
On an unseasonably snowy day in April, a coterie of analysts, investors and journalists gather at a midtown Manhattan hotel to listen to Jim Cantalupo, McDonald's chief executive, present his revit...
Paul Tebo is no one's idea of a revolutionary. A mild-mannered, gray-haired, 59-year-old chemical engineer, he has worked at DuPont for 35 years. He used to run the firm's $3-billion-a-year petroch...
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Jim Cantalupo wants you to know that McDonald's "gets it." The new chairman and CEO of the largest restaurant chain in the world is sitting back in a leather chair in his Oak Brook, Ill., office, s...
On August 3, 2000, the parody newspaper The Onion ran a joke article under the headline HERSHEY'S ORDERED TO PAY OBESE AMERICANS $135 BILLION. The hypothesized class-action lawsuit said that Hershe...
With anti-American sentiment on the rise, international markets have become perilous for U.S.-based multinationals. But that's just business as usual for McDonald's. During the last decade, the Ill...
It may not pack the wallop of the FBI's Phoenix memo, but a McDonald's memo accusing franchisees of service shortcomings has McDonaldland grimacing.
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