Mcdonald's Going Green

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In 1954, Ray Kroc was the exclusive distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multimixer. He discovered the McDonald's®hamburger stand in California, owned by Dick & Mac McDonald, was running eight Multimixers at a time, so he proposed them to opened several restaurants, in the goal to distribute eight or more multimixers in each of them. In 1958, McDonald’s sold its 100 millionth burger. By 1965, with 700 restaurants, McDonald's went public with the company's first offering on the stock exchange. The logo was created by Jim Schindler in 1962 and the idea was first introduced by Dick and Mac McDonald as arch shaped signs on the sides of their restaurants. From an angle, those arches looked like the letter “M” and thus, were incorporated in the McDonalds logo as a merger of the two golden arches together. The “McDonald’s” name was later added to the McDonalds logo in 1968. While the physical arches were dropped out from all the restaurants’ building design, The Golden Arches have remained in the McDonalds logo, and have branded the company. (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/) Colours can have a great impact when it comes to corporate identity because it improves the ability to recognize a brand (Perry and Wisonm, 2003). A research from Loyola University (2007) in the US indicated that using colors to manifest critical messages enhances attention by 82% and brand recognition by 80%. Colors also create a positive image. The reason for the choice of the colours red and yellow in the logo could be simply explained from the signs used in 1958 which were already using these two colours: red has a background and yellow for the arch representation. Is Dick and Mac McDonalds were aware of the impact on the consumers? Probably not, but it was a great choice. First, it is not very common for a brand, especially at this time, to choose such aggressive

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