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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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