McDonnell Douglas:
MacDonald Douglas
company profile
The founders of this company are james smith macdonald and Donald Welsh Douglas. Both of them are graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both of them have worked in Martin Aircraft Company. Douglas was the chief engineer of Martin Aircraft Company before 1920 founded Davis Douglas Company in Los Angeles. 192 1 year, he bought the shares of his partner and changed the company name to Douglas Aircraft Company. 1928 MacDonald founded MacDonald and Partners in Milva, Wisconsin. He wants to build a private jet for family use. The economic crisis bankrupted his plan and company. He went to work for Martin Aircraft Company. 1938, he left Martin Company and set up his own company-McDonald Aircraft Company near St. Louis, Missouri. Douglas was an important winner in World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the company built nearly 30,000 aircraft, and the number of employees increased to160,000. The company has manufactured a series of aircraft, including C-47 (an improvement of DC-3), A-20 and A-26. After the war, both companies were frustrated by the stop of government orders and too many planes. Both companies have laid off employees drastically, and Douglas has laid off almost 65,438+10,000 people. Douglas established an air force think tank during the war, which later developed into the RAND Corporation. Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the very successful four-engine aircraft DC-6( 1946) and their last propeller civil aircraft DC-7( 1953). Later, the company turned to jet propulsion, and their first jet plane was military: the more conventional F3D Air Knight (1948) and the more "jet age" F4D Air Thunder (195 1). Douglas also started to build civil jets, and launched DC-8 in 1958 to compete with Boeing 707. MacDonald also developed jet planes, which are smaller and therefore more extreme. Through their successful FH Ghost, they became the main suppliers of the navy, followed by F2H, F3H Devil and F- 10 1 Volt. The Korean War made McDonald an important supplier of military aircraft, especially its F-4 Ghost II (1958). Both companies want to enter the new rocket market. Douglas Company started with the production of air-to-air missiles, and later became the main partner of Raytheon's ballistic missile program. Macdonald also makes rockets and tests supersonic flight. These studies made it a contract for NASA's project mercury and Gemini programs. Douglas also received a contract from NASA, especially for the production of the giant Saturn V rocket. Both companies have many employees, but they also have many problems.
Douglas was implicated in DC-8 and DC-9, and the two companies began to consider merging. 1963 the two sides started negotiations. 1966 65438+ Douglas asked McDonald's for an offer in February and accepted it. 1On April 28th, 967, the two companies formally merged to form McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company. 1968, the company began to produce DC- 10, 197 1 year for the first batch of delivery. 1977, the company began to launch the DC-9 offspring series which was later called MD-80. This project was very successful later. The next plane is the descendant of DC-10md-11. Up to now, MD- 1 1 is the only three-jet aircraft in the world. Since 1986, 200 MD- 1 1 have been sold, but after the merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, MD- 1 1 will no longer be sold because it competes with Boeing 777. The last plane of McDonnell Douglas was MD-90 launched in 1988. MD-90 is longer than MD-80. MD-95, the abbreviation of MD-90, is the only aircraft still in production after the merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing (later renamed Boeing 7 17). McDonnell Douglas has also produced many successful military aircraft in recent years, including F- 15 Eagle Fighter (1974) and F/A- 18 Hornet Combat Attack Aircraft (1975) and BGM- 109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile. 1970 oil crisis has dealt a great blow to civil aviation, so McDonnell Douglas had to lay off employees and start diversifying products to mitigate the impact of future oil crisis. 1984 McDonnell Douglas acquired helicopter maintenance company and changed its name to McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company.
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Mcdonald's:
English full name: McDonald's
Company Type: Listed Company (new york Stock Exchange)
Now the slogan is: I love it!
Established on: 1954
Headquartered in Oakbrook, Illinois, USA.
Important people:
Founder ray kroc.
Andrew J. McKenna, Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
Jim Skinner, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Board of Directors.
President Michael roberts and Chief Operating Officer.
Industry: restaurants
Number of employees: 418,000
Main products: chain fast food, dessert, children's clothing, etc.
Revenue: USD 6543.8+USD 500 million (2006)
Official website:
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McDonald's is the largest fast food chain in the world. It is a chain fast food restaurant mainly selling hamburgers, which was founded by McDonald's Brothers and ray kroc in the United States in 1950s. Around the world, McDonald's restaurants are spread all over six continents 100 countries. McDonald's has become the most valuable brand in the global catering industry. In many countries, McDonald's represents an American lifestyle.
McDonald's Happy Paradise Meal provides free toys, such as dolls in Disney movies, which is very attractive to minors.
Because the fast food culture it represents is accused of having an impact on public health, such as obesity caused by high calories and lack of adequate balanced nutrition, many people attack it as "junk food". Many people in France, who are proud of their food culture, don't like McDonald's and classify McDonald's as a representative of the invasion of American lifestyle.
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The most famous McDonald's brand of McDonald's in Israel has more than 3 1000 fast food restaurants, which are distributed in 12 1 countries and regions around the world. McDonald's around the world make appropriate adjustments according to local tastes. In addition, McDonald's now controls some other catering brands, such as Aroma Cafe, Boston Market, Chipotle Mexican Tacos, Donatos Pizza and Pret a Manger.
In 200 1 year, McDonald's company's total revenue reached148.7 billion US dollars, and its net profit was 164 billion US dollars.
Most McDonald's fast food restaurants provide English translation of counters and drive-ins, which means you can get to the restaurant without getting off the bus. Customers can drive to the door to order food, then bypass the restaurant and pick up the meal at the exit. ) Two service modes, indoor dining and sometimes outdoor seating.
Drive-in restaurants usually have several independent stations: parking, checkout and pick-up points. Generally, the latter two stations will be merged.
(It is reported that because the minimum wage of employees in North Dakota is obviously lower than that in Oregon and Washington, McDonald's plans to try to set up a telephone service center in Fargo, North Dakota in early 2005 to accept and handle drive-through telephone orders from Oregon and Washington to alleviate this phenomenon. )
In some areas, there will be McDrive on both sides of the main road, which is an avenue without counters and seats for entertaining night drivers. This avenue often appears in downtown areas with high population density as a simplified way to drive-in restaurants.
Some special theme restaurants still exist, such as the theme restaurant of Locke McDonald's in the 1950s, and some carefully selected McDonald's restaurants located in large indoor or outdoor playgrounds in suburbs and some cities. They are called McDonald's playground. This type of restaurant first appeared in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, but it appeared later in the world: for example, most parts of Canada did not appear until the mid-1990s.
McDonald's Company donates part of its turnover to charity every year. When the founder ray kroc died, he set up the Uncle McDonald's Charity Fund with all his property.
Because McDonald's regularly sells carbonated drinks provided by Coca-Cola Company, McDonald's has actually formed a strategic alliance with Coca-Cola.