{"id":2606,"date":"2013-02-25T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2013-02-25T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:46:17","slug":"the-presence-of-mcdonalds-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/25\/the-presence-of-mcdonalds-across-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presence of McDonald’s Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the companies that symbolizes the dominance of US. corporations across the world is McDonald’s<\/a>. McDonald’s is the second largest fast food chain in the world, according to a Nasdaq report <\/a>for 2011, with more than 33,510 restaurants in 119 countries spread across all five continents.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has the largest number of McDonald’s restaurants (13,381), followed by Japan (3,598), Canada (1,400), Germany (1,276), UK (1,250), and China (660).<\/p>\n

The price of a McDonald’s burger is different in each country. According to the graph above, the most expensive ones can be found in Norway ($7.18), Denmark ($5.93), Iceland ($5.21), and in the Eurozone ($4.96). By comparison, the price of a McDonald’s burger in the U.S. is $3.57. These prices have been calculated using the Big Mac index<\/a> published by The Economist, in order to measure the Purchasing Price Parity (PPP) between two currencies.<\/p>\n

Resources:<\/p>\n

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  1. American Icons Temple: A Market-Dominant Minority that is\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Nasdaq: Subway tops McDonald’s for number of stores in world<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. United States Securities and Exchange Commission – Form 10-K: McDonald’s Corporation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Economist: Big Mac Index<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    One of the companies that symbolizes the dominance of US. corporations across the world is McDonald’s. McDonald’s is the second largest fast food chain in the world, according to a Nasdaq report for 2011, with more than 33,510 restaurants in 119 countries spread across all five continents. The U.S. has the largest number of McDonald’s […]<\/p>\n

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