In the NFL cartoon skit, characters joked about the star's weight, dating life
Cheap is chic. The recession has proven that.
Haven't been following NASCAR's annual Media Tour down in North Carolina? Not to worry. I can fit a summary into one simple sentence:
Federal officials hunted for the source of a 16-state salmonella outbreak linked to three types of raw tomatoes, while the list of supermarkets and restaurants yanking those varieties from shelves and dishes grew
U.S. stocks retreated in early trading Monday as Citigroup's mortgage writedown news rekindled concerns about the global credit crunch.
GPS on cell phones is a no-brainer for consumers: Find whatever you're looking for, wherever you are. But try to develop software for GPS phones and you'll be stumbling through a maze of programming languages, like J2 and Brew, and standards that vary from carrier to carrier and phone to phone.
At Burger King, flame broiling will never be the same again.
The Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food chains will begin purchasing eggs and pork from suppliers who do not keep animals in cages or crates, spokesmen for Hardee's and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Wednesday.
Burger King pledged Wednesday to offer healthier fast-food items for children under 12, with plans to sell and market flame-broiled Chicken Tenders and apples cut to resemble thick-cut french fries.
U.S. stocks were modestly lower at the start of trading Wednesday as oil prices in record territory and a weaker dollar made investors nervous.
In the NFL cartoon skit, characters joked about the star's weight, dating life
Cheap is chic. The recession has proven that.
Haven't been following NASCAR's annual Media Tour down in North Carolina? Not to worry. I can fit a summary into one simple sentence:
Federal officials hunted for the source of a 16-state salmonella outbreak linked to three types of raw tomatoes, while the list of supermarkets and restaurants yanking those varieties from shelves and dishes grew
U.S. stocks retreated in early trading Monday as Citigroup's mortgage writedown news rekindled concerns about the global credit crunch.
GPS on cell phones is a no-brainer for consumers: Find whatever you're looking for, wherever you are. But try to develop software for GPS phones and you'll be stumbling through a maze of programming languages, like J2 and Brew, and standards that vary from carrier to carrier and phone to phone.
At Burger King, flame broiling will never be the same again.
The Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food chains will begin purchasing eggs and pork from suppliers who do not keep animals in cages or crates, spokesmen for Hardee's and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Wednesday.
Burger King pledged Wednesday to offer healthier fast-food items for children under 12, with plans to sell and market flame-broiled Chicken Tenders and apples cut to resemble thick-cut french fries.
U.S. stocks were modestly lower at the start of trading Wednesday as oil prices in record territory and a weaker dollar made investors nervous.
Burger King Holdings Inc. on Friday reported a fourth-quarter net profit, reversing a year-ago loss, helped by longer store hours and its low-cost breakfast menu.
U.S. stocks retreated at Friday's open as jittery investors braced for a fresh reading on housing starts and shrugged off a surprisingly strong jump in orders for durable goods.
Long workweeks -- up to 120 hours -- are common at the Boulder, Colo., offices of Crispin Porter & Bogusky. So the award-winning ad agency, known for inventive campaigns like Burger King's Subservient Chicken website and Virgin Atlantic's mock flight-safety cards, decided to look for an equally creative way to help employees with their work/life balance.
Fast-food chain Burger King announced Friday that it has begun the rollout of transfat-free cooking oil to its restaurants nationwide.
U.S. stocks held close to breakeven at Friday's open, with the June jobs report getting a lot of consideration.
Can buying a Canon camera, a pair of Nike sneakers or a bar of Dove soap help curb global warming?
In 1990 four Southern California health nuts founded a smoothie joint called Juice Club, which quickly gained a loyal following and inspired copycats. Five years later the name changed to Jamba Juice, and last November Jamba went public after merging with a special-purpose acquisition company. Wall Street analysts like Piper Jaffray's Nicole Miller Regan believe the stock, currently at $9, has upside potential. CEO Paul Clayton, previously a senior exec at Burger King, recently sat down with Fortune's Matthew Boyle to talk about Jamba's expansion, the perfect pick-me-up for tired CEOs, and why you'll never see a beige store in Manhattan ever again.
McDonald's is messing with the sacred french fry -- and doing it for our own good.
As long as young and hungry guys continue to crave big and juicy burgers, bigger will always be better as far as fast-food chains Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are concerned.
Stocks took a hit at Wednesday's U.S. open as investors pondered tough news on oil and the economy.
Here are some stocks that were moving in late trading Wednesday:
Not since the late 1980s has the world of private equity so entranced Wall Street. The deals are huge ($33 billion for hospital chain HCA), and the investment dollars continue to pour in (new recor...
Regarding the train bombings in Mumbai, not a lot of effect on the Sensex, essentially India's Dow. In fact, today that index is up almost 3 percent. Terror has become rote?....With all the violence in the world, where the hell is the U.N.???
Building a business takes more time, energy and focus than most small business owners could ever anticipate, and sometimes walking away is the hardest task of all.
Private equity-backed companies often come to the market with plenty of baggage, but that doesn't mean investors should always take flight.
Burger King's hot-off-the-grill offering could heat up the IPO market for other companies looking to go public next week.
Investors have gorged on restaurant deals this year, but do they have room leftover for Burger King?
The IPO market could be set to sizzle the next few months as some big-name companies trying to capitalize on the bull market go public.
The nation's biggest beverage makers have agreed to end sales of nearly all sugary sodas to public schools, a group led by former President Clinton announced Wednesday.
Burger King expects to raise around $375 million to $425 million through its initial public offering, according to a SEC filing the company made Tuesday.
In February, the defiant Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy predicted a triumphant resurgence for his company to Business 2.0: "Four years ago we told our engineers to throw out everything that doesn't matter." Now, apparently, McNealy has decided that 200 employees are among what doesn't matter. The layoffs came from the company's high-end server group which has recently been giving away computers to anyone who asks for one to test. Indeed, even Sun president Jonathan Schwartz has acknowledged in his blog that the free trial offer has proved a bit rocky, and these cuts make that all the more apparent.
New technology innovations could soon force the restaurant industry to rejigger an often-used acronym -- QSR, or quick-service restaurant -- to SSR, or self-service restaurant, instead.
Any day now, barring unforeseen calamity, Burger King will join the ranks of publicly traded corporations. It marks a first for the home of the Whopper, which since its founding in 1954 has been a ...
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Burger King Corp.'s (BKG.XX) private equity backers are looking to king-size their returns from the chain ahead of its initial public offering, with plans to collect a $400 million dividend, according to Moody's Investors Services.
eiled a new $10 bill this fall, the focus on currency as art was refreshing. We seized the moment by asking some of the world's foremost creative minds to show us how they would design a better bill and to explain why they'd do it differently. As we recently changed the way MONEY looks with a redesign of our own (printed on paper, of course, not 75% cotton and 25% linen, like money), the timing seemed perfect. ...
[Last month, I visited New Orleans for the first time since the hurricane. I live in Lafayette, about 140 miles west of there, and so missed the wrath of Katrina. My comic strip had been published ...
[MISS] The burghers are revolting! With its arch, ad-driven revamp, Burger King has climbed back atop its throne, with U.S. same-store sales rising 9 percent in the past two years. Yet the enlighte...
Money--actual dollar bills--doesn't get much attention these days. Your paycheck magically appears in your account. You swipe your debit card, transferring unseen dollars. So when the Treasury unve...
Burger King is seeing strong sales gains and could have an initial public offering within the next year, according to a published report.
In pursuit of the ultimate snack food, Burger King will cross a chicken strip with a french fry.
An entertainment watchdog group is asking Burger King to pull its "Star Wars"-themed children's meals because the latest movie is rated PG-13, according to a published report.
America is hungry, dang it, and it doesn't want a salad.
Burger King has unveiled a new breakfast sandwich that's a huge bet that not everyone is dieting.
A burger developed by the winning team in the season premiere of the Donald Trump reality show "The Apprentice" went on sale Friday at Burger King restaurants nationwide.
Burger King really wants its SpongeBob inflatables back, and the burger chain is even willing to offer a one-year's supply of free Whoppers, salads or any other item on its menu as a reward for information leading to their safe return.
The room is white--pristinely white. We're inside the sensory panel room at Wendy's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, where employees of the $7.3 billion fast-food giant get to taste-test new products ...
If the big investors who own Burger King have it their way, the next CEO of the floundering fast-food chain will be Greg Brenneman, former president of Continental Airlines. The man chasing Brennem...
As if the advertising industry didn't have enough trouble already, a new development is catching on in schools: programs to "ad-proof" children.
Burger King is searching for a new CEO less than two years into the tenure of its current boss, according to published reports.
On a Wednesday morning in late January, as subfreezing gusts blasted the length of Madison Avenue, the temperature was 70 degrees and rising at the red-hot epicenter of the ad universe. Inside the ...
KEVIN MARSHALL Granby, Conn.
The low-carb thing is getting pretty silly.
Coke vs. Pepsi. Burger King vs. McDonald's. Color-A-Cookie vs. FooDoodler? The latest brand war isn't among megacorporations but between two small firms that make color-and-eat cookies. And the bat...
Is it really only a year ago that a dozen Burger King managers at a retreat burned their feet walking over hot coals in a team-building exercise?
Chances are, if you hear of a "Big Mac Attack" these days, it comes with chest pains. At least at McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., where the bad news tends to be super-sized. When the fa...
Advertisers have made some dubious claims over the years. We've been asked to believe that buying a car is a patriotic act, that Burger King just tastes better (than what?), and that Michael Jackso...
There's an episode of Seinfeld in which Elaine--during her days as the brassy CEO of J. Peterman--can't manage to fire an incompetent mail clerk. Why? The clerk, a former soldier who sports militar...
As Washington continues to scramble for reasons why last November's elections didn't play out as forecast, a poll by a New York market researcher named Mark DiMassimo has a simple explanation: Not ...
To understand the history behind Tyson Foods' acquisition of Hudson Foods in early September, you have to know a little bit about an over-the-fence. As in "I had an over-the-fence with Hank yesterd...
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ERNEST H. DREW, the amiable CEO of Hoechst Celanese, the chemical giant, remembers exactly when he became an advocate of a more diverse work force. He was attending a 1990 conference for Hoechst's ...
Beef is back -- big and juicy. Since 1976, when annual consumption averaged a stomach-satisfying 88.8 pounds per person, sales of beef have dwindled as cholesterol counts and grazing "lite" increas...
Some years back we took an IQ test (don't ask why). One section was designed to elicit information about one's common-sense understanding of various phenomena in everyday life. Among the questions ...
A penchant for this more potent coffee is moving beyond such sissified metropolises as Seattle, where even Burger King and McDonald's sell espresso. ; Now it's steaming across the rest of the U.S. ...
YOU'RE SITTING ON a bench outside your local Rally's fast-food restaurant, inhaling a Rallyburger with cheese and batter-dipped fries, when a middle-aged man in jeans comes over and joins you. Alar...
WHAT DO KIDS know about the world of work, that mysterious adult realm hidden behind the concrete walls of factories and the reflective windows of office towers? Not much, and not nearly enough to ...
JEFFREY CLEMENTS, 45, stopped wearing tailored suits and starched white shirts to work last January and switched to blue sweat pants, T-shirts, and sneakers. It's a good thing. Clements used to be ...
TRUMP, CAMPEAU, Wang, Eastern -- hardly a day passes without news of some business in need of a rescue. ''In the 1980s, LBOs, takeovers, and global competition left a path of destruction out there....
MANAGING/Cover Story 36 THE NEW TURNAROUND CHAMPS When a business is in distress, these company doctors don't leech it like some medieval physician. They find the root trouble and stanch the bleedi...
PERKINS FAMILY RESTAURANTS LP When Donald Smith took over this Memphis chain in late 1985, sales and profits were, well, unappetizing. Its 319 restaurants earned a meager $3 million on revenues of ...
Roy Bostock, president of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, has more beef in his diet since his team won half of the Burger King advertising account in May -- and topped that off by wresting Kraft Gen...
''My style is to grin when the water is just rising over my lower lip,'' says Barry Gibbons, the Grand Metropolitan executive charged with turning around Pillsbury's Burger King unit. He's got a Wh...
LOOK QUICKLY, and the blue-eyed, pudgy-faced Allen Sheppard, 56, boss of Britain's Grand Metropolitan, could pass for the double of a corporate symbol he recently acquired -- the cuddly Pillsbury D...
This could be the year for franchisees. Goods and services sold through them reached almost $640 billion in 1988, a 30% increase over 1984, says the U.S. Commerce Department. Franchises now account...
WHAT HAPPENED to the Rust Belt workers whose jobs were swept away? Some never recovered. But those FORTUNE interviewed across the region, along with union officials and job training counselors, agr...
Even though retired chairman William Spoor's return to Pillsbury to ''help'' his successor, John Stafford, was billed as temporary, it looked as if Spoor could end up replacing his heir (FORTUNE, N...
ON THE 40th floor of Pillsbury's corporate tower in Minneapolis, the sounds of hammers and buzz saws echo through the hallways as workmen busily prepare a cavernous office for the return of William...
A specter is haunting America. An underclass of unemployable young people, particularly minority youth, is expanding steadily, abetted by drug abuse, adolescent pregnancy, and illiteracy. This may ...
If you think your teenager's after-school job builds character, instills leadership, and teaches him the value of a buck, think again. For middle- and upper-middle-class offspring, recent research ...
McDonald's is the leading fast-food retailer outside the U.S., and it keeps on widening its lead. While McDonald's U.S. sales rose 9% to $4.6 billion for the first six months of the year, internati...
IT'S THURSDAY and Jim Wronski, director of recruitment for Chicago's Andy Frain Services, is frantic. The town will be jumping with cultural and sports events over the weekend, and Frain should hav...
HOUSEHOLDERS who find their mailboxes wadded with catalogues may not believe it, but the growth of the consumer mail-order business seems finally to be slowing. According to Maxwell Sroge Publishin...
Fresh lettuce and tomatoes -- or more precisely, ''cool'' lettuce and tomatoes -- are making a comeback in fast food. For years Burger King, Wendy's, and Roy Rogers have tried to bite into McDonald...
In reaction against what threatens to become a never-ending pitch from advertisers, yuppies seem to be tiring of all the adulation, and some marketers seeking all those upwardly mobile dollars are ...
ANNISTON, ALABAMA -- Dexter Gooden said he was laid off for three days for drinking a Pepsi at the Coca-Cola bottling plant where he works. He said his wife brought him a Burger King lunch on Monda...
Getty Trust: War and Pieces The $4-billion Getty family trust sparked a war among the heirs of J. Paul Getty, who demanded that Getty's son Gordon be removed as sole trustee, and haggled over who s...
Jay O. Darling Darling's rise should inspire burger flippers everywhere. He joined Burger King Corp. (1984 sales: $1.2 billion) 14 years ago as an assistant manager trainee at a branch on his nativ...
With a sizzling reputation from top jobs at McDonald's, Burger King, and PepsiCo, fast-food whiz Donald N. Smith moved on to beef up Chart House Inc. (FORTUNE, November 14, 1983). But his record fi...
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