McDonald’s $1.2bn business is OMD’s chance to go large
04 Dec 2003 | by Ian Darby,
You can’t get more global than McDonald’s. It would be hard to find another more corporate, international and deliberately bland company.
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Paul Ross, Englishmen in baseball caps and men who go to awards dinners minus the black ties because they're so creative. Just a few of the people I'd like to see clambering out of the back of that German truck at the end of The Great Escape to face the big machine gun, writes Ian Darby .
You can’t get more global than McDonald’s. It would be hard to find another more corporate, international and deliberately bland company.
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