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02-26-02
Starbucks Coffee Company (UK) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX), announced an agreement today with the Fairtrade Foundation to sell Fairtrade Certified coffee in Starbucks stores in the UK.
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02-20-02
Against the global backdrop of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Mike Eruzione, Johann Olav Koss and McDonald's World Champion Crew gathered today to dedicate a new Ronald McDonald House in Salt Lake City. Among the first-of-its-kind, this new House features private apartments ...
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02-06-02
Eleven Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan high school athletes are being recognized as the finest basketball players in the country through their selection as candidates for the 2002 McDonald's All American High School Basketball Team.
This year is a sign...
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12-06-01
Worth magazine today named Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), a nonprofit, 501(c)3 dedicated to improving the health and well being of children worldwide, one of "America's 100 Best Charities." The article appears in the December, 2001 issue.
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11-27-01
The STARBRIGHT Foundation's Capital Campaign Chairman, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Ronald McDonald House Charities® President and CEO, Ken Barun visited a Tampa, Florida Ronald McDonald House today to unveil the STARBRIGHT Explorer Series CD-ROMs. These eight interact...
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09-12-01
$1 Million Donation from McDonald’s Corporation for Relief Efforts, $1 Million from Ronald McDonald House Charities, Feeding Search and Rescue Teams in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, McDonald's Cookies and Juice Going to Blood Donation Centers, Restaurants' Ch...
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09-11-01
Ronald McDonald® has an important message for kids and moms -- drink more milk. The famous McDonald’s icon is donning a milk mustache to show moms how important it is to be a milk-drinking role model for kids, and to show kids just how fun drinking milk is. Ronald is the lat...
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08-28-01
The Darden Restaurants Foundation announced today it will award a grant to the University of Florida\'s Warrington College of Business to establish the first comprehensive diversity and business ethics endowment in Florida. It is also the first such endowment in the nation c...
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08-14-01
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NSYE:HOT) announced today that its three largest hotel brands are replacing existing baby cribs with brand new custom-designed cribs, developed to be ultra-safe, stylish and comfortable.
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08-13-01
McDonald’s USA announced today that it is providing updated nutrition information about the ingredients in "natural flavors."