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McDonald’s sees $100 billion delivery market as way to grow

  Bloomberg After years of seeing fewer US customers come in its doors, McDonald’s Corp. is increasingly embracing a different philosophy: take the food to them. The fast-food chain will rely heavily on delivery to reignite sales, especially in the US, according to executives speaking at McDonald’s investor day in Chicago. The company also is turning more aggressively to digital ...

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BCBG Max Azria files for bankruptcy as retail glitz fades

  Bloomberg BCBG Max Azria Group Inc., the glitzy fashion house founded by designer Max Azria, filed for bankruptcy in a third attempt in two years to rescue a business beset by changing consumer habits. The latest turnaround effort began in January when the chain started closing 120 of its stores, Chief Restructuring Officer Holly Felder Etlin said in court ...

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MTN moves closer to Nigeria exchange listing

  Bloomberg MTN Group Ltd. has been having a tough time of it in Nigeria, its most lucrative market. Protesters last week vandalized the company’s headquarters in the capital, Abuja, in retaliation for xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, singling it out among more than 100 other Johannesburg-based businesses. It suffered its first-ever loss last year after Nigeria’s regulator ...

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