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Belch: Advertising and<br />

Promotion, Sixth Edition<br />

VII. Special Topics and<br />

Perspectives<br />

more than 9 percent in 2001, making McDonald’s<br />

French operation the fastest growing in Europe.<br />

While sales have increased, the company’s uneasy<br />

relationship with the French encountered yet another<br />

problem in May 2002 when McDonald’s France placed a<br />

full-page “advertorial” in the magazine Femme Actuelle<br />

headlined “McDonald’s—Is It Causing Obesity in Children?”<br />

The ad was run in response to a report showing<br />

that child obesity in France had doubled to 16 percent<br />

in 10 years. In the copy of the ad McDonald’s France<br />

stated that “The number of visits to its outlets should<br />

be limited.” Forbidding children from eating fast food<br />

would be counterproductive. However, there is no reason<br />

to eat excessive amounts of junk food, nor go more<br />

than once a week to McDonalds.” As might be<br />

expected, the ad provoked a furious response from<br />

20. International<br />

Advertising and Promotion<br />

part of their integrated marketing communications programs. Marketers are also using<br />

mass-media advertising to drive consumers to their websites and provide them with<br />

detailed information about their products and services, encourage them to participate<br />

in online promotions, or allow them to make purchases. Exhibit 20-21 shows a page<br />

from the Japanese website the Gillette Company developed for its Mach3 shaving system.<br />

A number of global business-to-business marketers such as Dell Computer, IBM,<br />

Xerox, and Hewlett-Packard are using websites to provide customers with information<br />

and conduct business with them.<br />

As the digital revolution continues, marketers will be making greater use of the<br />

Internet in their global as well as local IMC programs. However, they will also face<br />

some challenges with respect to the way they approach global marketing and branding.<br />

As more consumers worldwide have access to the same information and same<br />

brands via the World Wide Web, many marketers will have to rethink their strategies<br />

of producing the same product under different names and tailoring promotions to local<br />

markets. It is predicted that marketers will use more global brands and promotional<br />

campaigns to take advantage of the worldwide exposure that will be available through<br />

the Internet.<br />

© The McGraw−Hill<br />

Companies, 2003<br />

McDonald’s American corporate headquarters in<br />

Chicago, which issued a statement noting that the ad<br />

was the opinion of only one consultant and the company<br />

does not share this view.<br />

McDonald’s can only hope that the latest controversy<br />

does not add to its problems in France. To the<br />

French, nothing is as symbolic as food, and many have<br />

already decided that McDonald’s symbolizes globally<br />

homogenized tastes and the “McDomination” of its<br />

market.<br />

Sources: Marian Burros, “McDonald’s France Says Slow Down on<br />

the Fast Food,” New York Times, Oct. 30, 2002, p. C7; David<br />

Woodruff, “Just Say No: Jose Bove Has Made a Career as a Professional<br />

Agitator; His Latest Target: Globalization,” The Wall Street<br />

Journal, Oct. 1, 2001, p. A1; Larry Speer, “McDonald’s Self Defense Is<br />

Its French Connection,” Advertising Age, Sept. 13, 1999, p. 26.<br />

Exhibit 20-21 Gillette<br />

developed a Japanese<br />

website for its Mach3 razor<br />

697<br />

Chapter Twenty International Advertising and Promotion

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