McDonald's: Getting Britain lovin' it once again
Principal authors: Tom Roach, Leo Burnett; Alistair Macrow, McDonald's RestaurantsContributing authors: Beate Lettmann, Mindshare ATG; Mike Treharne, Leo Burnett
Introduction
Turning McDonald's around in 2007 after four years of stagnation has been widely celebrated as a remarkable business achievement.
This is about what happened next: how advertising helped accelerate McDonald's growth in the next four years, helping take the business from recovery to resurgence.
In 2007 customers had begun to return in sufficient numbers for the business to register positive growth. But for millions of customers McDonald's had yet to...