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• Food Roundup: Attacks on Cheerios, PBG, Burger King and More

  BNET - 2009-05-13

  FDA targets Cheerios health claims -- General Mills could be in trouble for claiming its cereal can lower your cholesterol in six weeks. Though the claim has appeared on Cheerios boxes for more than two years, the Food and Drug Administration is only now cracking down, telling the company that...

  Tags: Food, PepsiCo, Burger King Corp., Attack, Cheerios, Federal Government, Corporate Governance, Food & Beverage, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: Burger King Woes, Gatorade Hypocrisy, KFC's New KGC, and More

  BNET - 2009-04-15

  Visits to Burger King drop unexpectedly -- Shares for the burger chain took a tumble after the company admitted it faced an "unanticipated traffic slowdown" in March resulting in lower-than-expected revenues for the third quarter. Analysts expect rival McDonald's to do better, though both chains are benefiting from the economic...

  Tags: Food, Advertisement, McDonald's Corp., Burger King Corp., Gatorade, KFC, Powerade, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Burger King Uses SpongeBob in Ads Despite Promise To "Reduce" Use of Cartoons Promoting Kids' Meals

  BNET - 2009-04-15

  Burger King is promoting a 99-cent kids’ meal in a TV spot featuring SpongeBob Squarepants even though the company joined a campaign to reduce the use of cartoon characters to promote junk food see video below. Anyone who buys the meal gets a Spongebob toy. BK’s ads are handled by...

  Tags: Advertisement, Burger King Corp., BK, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Jim Edwards

• Burger King Holdings, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-02-05

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Greg Badishkanian – Citi Investment Research. Greg Badishkanian – Citi Investment Research Currency was a little bit more than I was modeling. Is there any way to maybe better model this as the quarter...

  Tags: Food, Call Transcript, Earnings, Citigroup Inc., CRM, Burger King Corp., Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Marketing, Software, Seeking Alpha

• Food Roundup: Cards Help Recalls, Burger King Body Spray Returns, and More

  BNET - 2009-02-05

  Stores notify customers via loyalty cards -- Some supermarket chains are using data from loyalty cards to contact customers who have purchased recalled products, such as peanut butter contaminated with salmonella. Costco, for example, has contacted more than 1.5 million customers. CSPI has urged other stores to follow suit. [Source:...

  Tags: Card, Food, FTC, Burger King Corp., CSPI, Food & Beverage, Litigation, Corporate Law, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: Burger King Ends Whopper Sacrifice, Merisant Can Finance Stevia Product, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-15

  Burger King sacrifices Facebook application -- Citing "philosophical differences" with Facebook, Burger King has discontinued its Whopper Sacrifice campaign which BNET covered last week. Burger King was giving free Whoppers to those willing to de-friend 10 of their Facebook contacts using the Whopper Sacrifice application. More than 230,000 friends were...

  Tags: Food, Facebook, Finance, Burger King Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Does Burger King's Facebook 'Whopper Sacrifice' Go Too Far?

  BNET - 2009-01-09

  Burger King's latest advertising stunt has gotten even more attention than its $3.99 burger-scented body spray. If you delete 10 of your Facebook friends using the "Whopper Sacrifice" application, you get a coupon for a free Whopper -- and your ex-friends get notifications letting them know what you've done and...

  Tags: Coupon, Facebook, Friend, Burger King Corp., Blogging, Food & Beverage, E-mail, Internet, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: Sparks Decaffeinated, Coke Bottler Restructures, Dr Pepper to Use Stevia, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-18

  MillerCoors Decaffeinates Sparks -- The brewer's caffeine/alcohol blend was the target of consumer groups and state attorneys general. Sparks, a malt beverage, will no longer contain caffeine, taurine, guarana or ginsing. [Source: Wall Street Journal] Coke Bottler to Restructure -- Coca-Cola Enterprises, the biggest Coke bottler, also...

  Tags: Food, Beverage, Burger King Corp., Food & Beverage, Federal Government, Corporate Governance, Manufacturing, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Mitchell

• Food Roundup: Burger King Ad Scandal, New Marketing Officer for Pepsi, Sara Lee Sells Pieces of Coffee Business, And More

  BNET - 2008-12-04

  Plus: * Kellogg to purchase trademarks and recipes from Mother's Cake & Cookie. * McDonald's targets Nicky D's restaurant by Katherine Glover

  Tags: Food, Marketing, Advertisement, PepsiCo, Sara Lee Corp., Burger King Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Burger King to Provide Info on (Relatively) Low-Cal Items

  BNET - 2008-11-19

  Burger King's move to promote food combinations that have fewer than 650 calories is "a minor, temporary gesture," that is "not a meaningful way to encourage people to make smarter choices," according to Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group. ...

  Tags: Food, Burger King Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dan Mitchell