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The Continued Struggle Of The Restaurant Industry In The U.S.
Despite economic recovery being seen in the U.S., the restaurant industry continues to struggle, as sales and traffic remain weak. Since the beginning of 2016, comparable sales (except February) and traffic have been deteriorating in every single...
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How Does McDonald’s Intend To Turn Around Its Chinese Business?
McDonald’s High Growth markets are classified to include countries like China, Italy, Korea, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and related markets. Further, they are believed to have relatively higher restaurant expansion...
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Why Has McDonald’s Stock Price Risen 20% Over The Last One Year?
McDonald’s growth engine started losing steam at the beginning of the third quarter of 2014, with revenues falling 6.6% year-over-year in the quarter. For the first time after 2009, consolidated revenues were down 2.4% y-o-y in 2014. Howeve...
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Does McDonald’s Need A Local Partner To Grow In China?
Recently, Yum Brands, the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut entered into a deal with Ant Financial (an Alibaba group company) and Primavera Capital (run by a former Goldman Sachs executive) to sell a part of its China operations for $480 million as a pa...
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How A Change In Leadership Can Impact McDonald’s Turnaround Program?
Recently, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) announced that the President of its U.S. operations, Mike Andres, will retire at the end of this year and will be succeeded by Chris Kempczinski. This President-to-be is the company’s current Executive Vice...
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Is McDonald’s A Gold Medalist At the Olympics?
The popularity of the McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) restaurant in the Olympics village at Rio de Janiero, Brazil is visible from the long queue of athletes outside the store, practically at all times during the day. The Washington Post reported th...
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Why Is McDonald’s Concentrating On Refranchising?
In 2015, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) came out with a turnaround plan to address its falling revenues and slowing comparable store sales growth. One of the key aspects of this turnaround plan was the decision to optimize the restaurant ownership ...
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Is McDonald’s Dependence On High Growth Markets Increasing?
In mid-2015, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) started operating under a new structure that classifies segments and combine markets with similar characteristics and opportunities for growth. Under the structure, the broad classification is: U.S.: I...
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Has McDonald’s Been Able To Appease Its Investors Amidst Turmoil In Its Topline?
Despite seeing a shift in its operating structure towards a 100% franchise-based model which led to a slump in its revenues, and a slowdown in the U.S. restaurant industry, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) has managed to keep its investors happy. I...
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McDonald’s Versus Burger King: Whose Franchisees Perform Better?
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) earns almost an eight times higher revenue than Burger King (NYSE:QSR), owing to twice the number of franchised restaurants and comparatively larger footfall. However, lately McDonald’s has found itself struggli...
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McDonald’s Slows Down In Q2’16, Despite Growth In Comparable Store Sales
Despite strong comparable store sales growth of 3.1% in its Q2 2o16 earnings report, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) posted a 3.6% y-o-y decrease in its revenues and 1% y-o-y decrease in earnings. McDonald’s revenues suffered a decline, l...
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“Healthy” Food Options In The Core Menu Can Drive Revenues For McDonald’s
Better known for calorie-laden fast food, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) is now working on initiatives to provide healthier menu options and add nutrition to its offering. In a recent interview to Business Insider, the company’s chef Jessica Fou...
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Here’s How McDonald’s Is Ensuring That “All Day Breakfast” Remains A Winner
After it was launched in October last year, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) “All Day Breakfast” has been a critical piece in its turnaround strategy. It has helped significantly in improving the company’s top line and comparable store sales in the U...
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McDonald’s Q2 FY 2016 Earnings Preview: Investment In Quality, All Day Breakfast To Drive Revenues
Key Trends: 1) Launch of All Day Breakfast helped improve top-line Comparable sales in Q1’16 increased 5.4% in the U.S. Internationally, a 5.2% growth in comparable sales in Q1’16. A 6% improvement in overall customer sati...
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Here’s How Offshoring Jobs Can Help McDonald’s
As McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) is working on a turnaround program, improving its menu and using technology to make services more efficient. The company is also making improvements to its compensation and benefits package for U.S. employees, so ...
