Sales of products affiliated with animation characters – such as ‘Minions’ and the cast of Frozen – are soaring. According to McDonald’s, Happy Meals with Minion toys are in high demand in South Korea. The ‘Minion Happy Meal Special Set’, which consists of…
In the world of mobile commerce, all eyes are on China. Even as China’s economy and overall retail sales growth drops, business-to-consumer (B2C) online sales are growing by 25 per cent each year. Data gathered from iResearch in a March 2015 report states…
Those tiny, frantic yellow creatures, the Minions, conquered the world with a smile, a wave, and their trademark unintelligible chatter as supporting characters in the first Despicable Me (2010). When they returned in 2013 for Despicable Me 2, they won over…
Global fast food giant McDonald’s Corporation has pledged to end deforestation caused by production of commodities in its supply chain, focusing on beef, coffee, palm oil, poultry and packaging. A US-based scientific advocacy group welcomed the pledge, saying…
A Chinese joint venture of U.S.-based J.R. Simplot, which supplies frozen french fries to McDonald’s, was fined 3.92 million yuan ($632,370) on Wednesday by the Beijing city government for water pollution, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The Beijing…
McDonald’s India has opened three McCafés in Bengaluru. Westlife Development, owner of the Master Franchisee of McDonald’s in India, Hardcastle Restaurants, said the McCafes were the first in South India. Smita Jatia, MD of Hardcastle Restaurants, said…