Emily Bryson York

A year into the job, McDonald's Global Chief Brand Officer Kevin Newell said he's focusing on making more engaging ads, aggressively developing menu items and fostering what he calls "children's...

Kraft Foods has been getting a slew of online attention Friday, thanks to an ad depicting an infant suckling while clutching an Oreo cookie. The tagline: Milk's favorite cookie. According...

Lombard's Yorktown Center is about to get a facelift. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a New York-based private equity group, and its affiliates have bought the 1.5 million square-foot mall...

Local entrepreneur Chuck Templeton has been named managing director of Impact Engine, a Chicago-based incubator focused on start-up and early stage companies looking to solve social and environmental problems. Templeton...

Protesters demonstrated Tuesday against the CME Group at an event its foundation underwrote at John Marshall Law School, carrying picket signs and an effigy of CME Chairman Terry Duffy.One protest...

P.F. Chang's, Kraft, and a variety of K-Cup products led the industry in new product introductions during 2011, according to SymphonyIRI data released Tuesday. P.F. Chang's Home Menu, made by...

McDonald'sCorp.provided additional details for a program that's part of its sponsorship of the Summer Olympic Games, to be held in London in July. The "Champions of Play" program, for kids...

McDonald's has named company veteran Tim Fenton as its next chief operating officer. Fenton, 54, previously served as president of the company's Asia, Pacific, Middle East and Africa region, which...

Lagunitas Brewing Co., the Petaluma, Calif.-based craft-brewing powerhouse, is putting down roots in Chicago. The maker of Lagunitas beers is planning to build a brewery at the old Ryerson steel...

Julie Oelling's 6-year-old daughter Zoe started asking to go to McDonald's for Happy Meal toys when she started preschool two years ago. "When she was 4, it was kind of...