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Food
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McDonald’s make Minions

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…

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E-Tailing
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Using WeChat to Grow Your Business in China

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…

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Food
3 min read

Minions to be back in McDonalds Happy Meals

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…

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Food
2 min read

Burger giant McDonald’s to end deforestation in supply chain

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…

McDonalds French Fries
Food
1 min read

McDonald’s supplier fined for pollution in China

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…

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Food
2 min read

McDonald’s India expands McCafe

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…