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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Lex
      McDonald’s: fast-food fight looms over franchisee fees Premium content

      Company needs to tread carefully over plan to raise royalty charges for new franchises in US and Canada

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      McDonald’s overhauls UK complaints unit after sexual abuse claims

      Fast-food chain sets up investigative team following fresh allegations of toxic workplace culture

      People walk past a branch of McDonald’s
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      McDonald’s apologises to UK staff over fresh sexual assault and bullying claims

      More than 100 current and recent employees allege groping and harassment are common at fast-food chain

      A McDonald’s sign
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Investors can play their part in the war on superbugs

      As McDonald’s is targeted, governments also need to tighten and enforce rules

      Cows in a field in County Donegal, Ireland
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      European asset managers take on McDonald’s over antibiotics

      Legal & General and Amundi say antimicrobial resistance poses a wider economic threat

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Waste management & recycling
      Big investors call on companies to slash use of plastics

      Coalition overseeing $10tn in assets warns on financial risks of inaction

      Disposable single use plastic objects such as bottles, cups
    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      News in-depthFrench economy
      Macron versus McDonald’s: how France ditched disposable food packaging

      ‘Anti-waste’ law has been costly for casual dining chains to implement and some doubt its environmental benefits

      An employee serves french fries in a reusable container at a McDonald’s restaurant in Levallois-Perret, near Paris
    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      McDonald’s signs deal with UK equalities watchdog over sexual harassment complaints

      Fast-food chain vows to protect staff in legally binding agreement after wave of claims

      A McDonald’s sign outside a drive-through restaurant
    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      McDonald’s court ruling turns up heat on corporate executives

      Decision allowing lawsuits against company’s officers for ‘oversight’ failures could open new front in litigation

      Montage of McDonald’s sign and exterior of the Delaware chancery court
    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      SEC charges former McDonald’s chief with misleading investors

      Steve Easterbrook agrees to $400,000 civil penalty and five-year ban on directorships

      Steve Easterbrook
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      McDonald’s to up pace of restaurant openings and hold ‘tough’ talks on staffing

      Simpler menus and revamped technology will be introduced as part of effort to rein in costs

      Cars wait in the drive-through at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Francisco
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      LexFood & Beverage
      US fast food: inflation will ketchup with burger flippers soon enough Premium content

      McDonald’s and Co are benefiting from the fact that — for now — eating out can be cheaper than cooking at home

      Cars queue at a McDonald’s drive-thru in San Francisco
    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      James Max
      Rich People’s Problems: Saving the dinner party with McDonald’s

      Economise by all means, but keep entertainment on the menu

      A McDonald’s meal
    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      Food Prices
      McDonald’s raises price of 99p cheeseburger for first time in 14 years

      Rising inflation forces fast food giant to add 20p to cost of signature burger in UK outlets

      A Grand Big Mac bacon burger
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      McDonald’s agrees to pay €1.25bn to settle French tax dispute

      Settlement follows probe by prosecutors into claims US fast-food chain diverted income abroad

      A McDonald’s restaurant in Paris
    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
      Russian business & finance
      Russians get first taste of rebranded McDonald’s

      New local owners of fast-food chain’s operations open 15 Moscow stores under different name

      People have a meal at the new ‘Vkusno & tochka’ restaurant which opened following McDonald’s Corp company’s exit from the Russian market
    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Investor activism
      Carl Icahn loses proxy fight with McDonald’s over pig welfare

      Billionaire activist had sought two board seats at fast-food chain in campaign to end caging of sows

      Carl Icahn arrives at a meeting
    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Frederick Studemann
      McDonald’s departure from Moscow marks the end of an era

      Thirty-year-old predictions about Russia’s post-Soviet future now look like western hubris

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      McDonald’s sells Russian business to Siberian entrepreneur

      Alexander Govor to take over chain’s restaurants under new brand and different menu

      A man walks past a closed McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow, Russia
    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      McDonald’s to sell its Russian business over Ukraine war

      Fast-food chain expected to book non-cash charge of up to $1.4bn for exit

      A McDonald’s restaurant closed to visitors in St Petersburg, Russia in March 2022
    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      Moral Money
      Carl Icahn wades into the ESG debate Premium content

      Corporate raider tells us his McDonald’s proxy fight is a vital test case

      Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, pictured in 2015
    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      McDonald’s leads fresh exodus of western consumer brands from Russia

      Coke, Pepsi, Starbucks, Yum Brands and Unilever pull back after invasion of Ukraine

      Customers enter a McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow
    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      Brooke Masters
      Carl Icahn’s push for happier McDonald’s pigs is just the start

      Investors won’t sit by idly when companies fail to match stakeholder rhetoric and ESG promises with genuine action

      A pregnant pig stands in a pen at a farm
    • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Hold the bacon: Icahn orders a proxy battle at McDonald’s Premium content

      Plus, Shari Redstone faces new foes in the streaming wars and Brookfield teams up with a tech billionaire to buy Australia’s dirtiest utility giant

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      Lex
      Carl Icahn/McDonald’s: animal rights fight shows activism is evolving Premium content

      Investors are pressing companies over matters where blunt profit maximisation is not the issue

      Carl Icahn
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