Hints and tips:
...Eighty years ago, on March 4 1938, Ed Skinner, a manager with the Bahrain Petroleum Company, received one of the most momentous telegrams of the 20th century....
...“Parents and health professionals would like to see CEO Skinner take Ronald McDonald and the suite of McDonald’s predatory marketing practices into retirement with him,” she adds....
...“Ronald McDonald is going nowhere,” Mr Skinner told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting. “[He] is an ambassador of McDonald’s and he is an ambassador for good.”...
...“Ronald McDonald is going nowhere,” Mr Skinner thundered. “He is an ambassador for good.”...
...He was called Ronald Center and he died in 1973 at the age of 60....
...Two women leave the Ronald McDonald House Charities meeting and get into a lift at the Marriott hotel in Chicago....
...Or such was the impression created by Damien Hirst’s “For the Love of God”, the grinning, glittering £50m diamond-encrusted skull made by Bentley & Skinner, a Bond Street jeweller....
...Jim Skinner, chief executive, says: “We don’t run our business from Oak Brook. We’re a local business with a local face in each country we operate in.”...
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