MCDONALD’S REVENUES BOOSTED BY SALAD November 8, 2011 MCDONALD’S, the world’s largest restaurant chain, reported yesterday a 5.5 per cent rise worldwide as it continues to outperform its competitors. Revenue at stores open at least 13 months rose 4.8 per cent in Europe and 5.2 per cent in the US, beating analysts’ expectations. Sales in the US were helped by its Monopoly game [...]
Companies can weather the online impact of a Twitter storm May 8, 2012 HOW much do Twitter storms affect brands? Looking at data on two brands from YouGov SoMA, the first social media audience measurement tool, reveals some extremely interesting findings. SoMA measures how many and what sort of people are hearing messages about brands on social media. The first example is Goldman Sachs, which follows the pattern [...]
OLYMPIC MEDIA BUZZ LONDON 2012 PARTNERS April 15, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games partners, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 4 March to Wednesday 11 April. McDonald’s has leapt up the rankings this week, with [...]
Burger King plans to go public again April 4, 2012 Hamburger chain Burger King said it plans go public through a deal with a London-listed investment firm, less than two years after it agreed to be taken private by private equity group 3G Capital Management. The quick sale highlights a profit improvement at Burger King’ Worldwide Holdings Inc, which operates more than 12,000 mainly franchise [...]
Burger King plans to go public again April 4, 2012 Hamburger chain Burger King said it plans go public through a deal with a London-listed investment firm, less than two years after it agreed to be taken private by private equity group 3G Capital Management. The quick sale highlights a profit improvement at Burger King’ Worldwide Holdings Inc, which operates more than 12,000 mainly franchise [...]
The subprime mortgage crisis isn’t over – UK taxpayers remain liable June 7, 2012 THE subprime mortgage crisis isn’t over. On the back of misguided government policies, taxpayers in the US and UK remain on the hook for huge sums. The ideology of affordable housing must end. It took just 13 years to destroy the American mortgage market with devastating effects for the rest of the world. The process began [...]
UK restaurant sector to strike £13bn by 2015 April 29, 2012 WHILE Britons continue to tighten their belts in hard economic times, one luxury that few of us seem to be prepared to give up is eating out. A new report by Allegra Strategies and Barclays forecasts that sales across the UK’s branded restaurants are set to grow by 22 per cent to £13.6bn by 2015 [...]
Facebook brand image survives embarrassing float May 22, 2012 FACEBOOK, the world’s largest social networking site, has made headlines with its IPO, which has since turned sour. Earlier this month, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would be leading a roadshow for Facebook in order to arouse interest on its soon-to-be available shares. On 18 May, the day of the IPO launch, Facebook began [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 20, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Banks to get cheap money to lift UK lending The government’s new “funding for lending” programme, designed to boost credit for British business, will cut banks’ costs to as little as 1.2 per cent, according to people briefed on the scheme. The supply of such cheap money to the banks is supposed to [...]
P&G set to cut 5,700 positions February 23, 2012 PROCTER & Gamble plans to cut about 5,700 non-manufacturing jobs as part of a new plan to reduce costs by $10bn by the end of fiscal 2016, chief executive Bob McDonald said yesterday. The world’s largest household products company has about 57,000 non-manufacturing employees among its total workforce of about 129,000. P&G also trimmed earnings [...]