...with brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary...
• Earth Fare Inc., the 25-unit health-oriented supermarket chain with stores in the southeastern and midwestern US, has agreed to sell an 80 percent stake in the company to private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners in a deal that values the company at about $300 million.
• Advertising Age reports that “nearly a year after Corporate Accountability International launched a campaign urging McDonald's to stop marketing to kids, it has turned its focus to hospitals that house a McDonald's and is imploring administrators to terminate contracts with the chain ... The heart of CAI's stand is that being in hospitals benefits McDonald's with an associated perception of healthfulness. The consumer-advocacy group also claims that McDonald's locations in such facilities builds an affinity for the brand with kids.”
The whole idea of a McDonald’s in a hospital is so patently ludicrous that it is amazing that we’ve even gotten to the point where advocacy groups have to weigh in...
• Earth Fare Inc., the 25-unit health-oriented supermarket chain with stores in the southeastern and midwestern US, has agreed to sell an 80 percent stake in the company to private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners in a deal that values the company at about $300 million.
• Advertising Age reports that “nearly a year after Corporate Accountability International launched a campaign urging McDonald's to stop marketing to kids, it has turned its focus to hospitals that house a McDonald's and is imploring administrators to terminate contracts with the chain ... The heart of CAI's stand is that being in hospitals benefits McDonald's with an associated perception of healthfulness. The consumer-advocacy group also claims that McDonald's locations in such facilities builds an affinity for the brand with kids.”
The whole idea of a McDonald’s in a hospital is so patently ludicrous that it is amazing that we’ve even gotten to the point where advocacy groups have to weigh in...
- KC's View:
