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McDonald’s Plans Major Growth in China

(March 2010) posted on Wed Mar 31, 2010 EDT

900 additional restaurants expected by 2013


McDonald's Corp. plans to nearly double its presence in the Chinese market over the next few years, senior officials from the fast-food giant said at opening ceremonies for its new Hamburger University training site in Shanghai. McDonald's, which currently has about 1,100 outlets in China, expects to boost that number to a total of 2,000 by the end of 2013, Tim Fenton, the company's president of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, told The Wall Street Journal. “China is our fastest-growing [market] from the income standpoint and from the revenue standpoint,” Fenton said.

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