McDonald’s Corporation April Hahnfeld Analyst July 18, 2010 Recommendation: HOLD Porter’s 5 Forces: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Threat of Competition: High Threat of New Entrants: High Threat of Substitution: Low-Moderate Power of Suppliers: Low Power of Buyers: Low Pros: Ticker Exchange Industry Sector Classification Market Cap. 52 Week Price range Recent Price Current P/E Projected 2012 P/E 2009 EPS Projected 2012 EPS Dividend Yield Debt Rating Beta MCD NYSE Retailing - Foods Consumer
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2 Introduction There are many fast food restaurants in America presently; among them is Mc Donald’s, currently one of the most successful fast food restaurants in America. Mc Donald’s originally started out as a small restaurant that focused on burgers, fries and beverages. It was owned by two brothers Dick and Mac Mc Donald. Ray Kroc came along and saw their business and put forward an idea to establish Mc Donald’s as a bigger company by establishing them all over America. Mr. Kroc would later
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Organizational Structure Paper Courtney Fryer MGT 230 January 6, 2015 Ms. B. Alston Organizational Structure Paper Fast food chains such as McDonald’s, Burger King, and Chick-fil-a, all have an interest in making growing profits and enlarging their companies’ name. Although each company has their own unique and different set of requirements for functioning, the organizational structure has given these companies chance and opportunity to expand to outside parties. Using
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density and low nutritional value. Indeed, fast food consumption is linked to obesity and cardiovascular disease, leading causes of preventable death. (American Journal of Public Health, 2010, Vol 100, No. 6) Furthermore, we believe most of people have acquired knowledge of certain health effects of fast foods, the research conducted by Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University shows over 60% of interviewed consumers were aware of fast food without much nutritional value, but they was hard to stop because
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Strengths The first defined Vietnamese fast food chain in Vietnam Fast food culture was initially imported to Vietnam in 1994 with the birth of the first restaurant named Chicken Texas on Nguyen Trai Street, District 1, Saigon. Gradually, a queue of foreign fast food jumbos have landed onto Vietnam and dominated the market with the everyday-seen names like KFC, Lotteria, Jollibee…They have helped shape up fast food culture with western style in the country that has been globally
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McDonalds Case Analysis Chandra Stevens Manda Roth Erica Jones Kaitlin Vincent Carole Hockeborn Ferris State University Table of Contents Abstract 4 Introduction 5 Situational Analysis 7 Demographics 7 Socio-Cultural 7 Political-Legal 8 Technology/Industrial 8 Economic 9 Global 9 S.W.O.T. Analysis 10 Strengths 11 Weaknesses 12 Opportunities 12 Threats 14 T.O.W.S. Analysis 15 External Strengths/Internal Opportunities 16 External
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YUM! BRANDS, PIZZA HUT, AND KFC Teaching Note Overview This case describes the evolution of the global fast-food industry and Yum! Brands, Inc.’s development of the Pizza Hut and KFC franchises worldwide. It focuses on international business risk assessment and develops a model of country evaluation that students can use to analyze international business and market entry decisions in a variety of industries, regions, and countries. Teaching Objectives 1. Develop
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Franchising and Franchise relationship Introduction Various researchers that have developed models for examining businesses over years assume that companies should pass through four stages during their life cycle: start-up, growth, maturity and decline. The most critical of all are the start-up and growth stages. In the first stage the business makes its primary steps in attempt to create a market presence, the primary base of customers. The start-up stage is generally characterized
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Introduction Macdonald’s mission and visions: We serve people with good quality food, fast and at low cost. McDonald's vision is to dominate the global food-service industry. The McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest quick service restaurant chain. There are over 30,000 McDonald's restaurants in more than 100 countries serving an average of 50 million people daily. From humble beginnings in 1955, the first McDonald's franchise restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA took in US$366.12 on its
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support http://talkfinanceonline.com/swot-analysis-of-mcdonalds/ SWOT analysis of Mcdonalds April 18th, 2012 | Author: admin Share Swot analysis on McDonalds. McDonalds is an international food outlet preferred by every age group around the world. It is a multinational food outlet, despite this it has to be analyzed to evaluate its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and the threats. Let’s analyze the outlet using swot analysis. Weakness * The weakness that hits the list is the employee
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