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McDonald's is exploring an $8.5 billion, ten-year "McDonald's Next" overhaul alongside smaller, protein-heavy portions aimed at GLP-1 users. Whether weight-loss drugs are steering its capital budget, and not only its menu boards, depends on how that money is split.
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Toys "R" Us is opening 120 US stores this holiday season aimed partly at adults, whose toy buying rose 25% in the first half. Its former chief estimates 100 of the smaller shops would sell what a handful of the old ones did, so the season is a test of a cheap format.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices removes Nike from the S&P 100 on the 21st after 18 years, a market-cap ranking catching up with a global footwear share that fell three points and a China business down from nearly 20% of revenue to about 13%.
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Circana has US console units down 39% in July and the average price paid up 16%. The platform splits say the price rises are still being absorbed, not refused.
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Circana puts July US console hardware spending at $282 million, down 29 percent year over year. The mid-life price cut, the industry's oldest demand lever, is no longer on the table.
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Circana has plant milk off 3.7% in dollars for the year to July 13 as dairy milk dollars rose 4.8%. A $66.9 billion global forecast is not a domestic roadmap.
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Oatly's mark is invalid on oat-based food and drink because "milk" counted as a designation. Negation, asterisks and droplet symbols do not create a safe harbour.
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Protein call-outs are about a tenth of the US dairy market but most of its growth, and Danone and Chobani are in court over those claims. Substantiation is the new constraint.
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US beef volumes slipped 0.3% in the 13 weeks to mid-July after two years of roughly 5% growth, and cattle futures have priced the change faster than the herd data can.
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