Word: mcdonaldization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company has prospered by catering to the conservative inclinations of its small-town clientele. "Other firms were advising people to buy and sell," says Ted Jones. "Our advice was to buy and keep." Currently, Jones brokers tend to recommend such blue-chip stocks as McDonald's and BellSouth. By putting down roots in small communities, Jones brokers can get to know their customers especially well. Says Bill Janssen, the Jones man in St. Peter, Minn.: "I can work with a customer Friday, fish with him on Saturday and sit next to him in church on Sunday." Last year the average...
...pageantry, fife-and-drum music, jet overflights and solemn oratory came off with scarcely a hitch, thanks in part to security arrangements so heavy that when the congressional special rolled into Philadelphia's 30th Street station, eight or so diners found themselves imprisoned for 15 minutes in a nearby McDonald's after police blocked all the restaurant's exits...
...Hispanic consumers, who have a purchasing power of about $120 billion. This year's Spanish-advertising outlays represent a 19% jump from 1986 and a threefold increase in the past five years. Among the prominent companies that have stepped up their Hispanic-advertising budgets are Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris, McDonald's and Kraft, which, for example, has launched a major Spanish-ad campaign to promote Breyers ice cream. Advertisers have myriad media outlets to choose from, including nearly 600 full-time Spanish-language television and radio stations, hundreds of Hispanic newspapers and countless billboards and bus posters in Spanish-speaking...
Much Hispanic advertising is created by Spanish-language specialty firms. Mendoza, Dillon, whose clients include Miller Brewing and Johnson & Johnson, last year had about $35 million in billings, nearly double its 1982 total. Manhattan's Conill Advertising, which creates Hispanic campaigns for McDonald's and Campbell's Soup, took in $26 million in 1986, up 18% from the previous year...
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