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McDonald's caters to about 68 million customers everyday in 119 countries. The company, which was launched in 1940, reported annual revenues of $27.5 billion and profits of $5.5 billion in 2012.
Let's have a look at some amazing facts that reveal its reach and strength.
Source: Business Insider
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: McDonald's 'Ronald McDonald' character chats with a counter staff in Tokyo, Japan.Photographs: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
McDonald's has more restaurants, 34,000 around the world, than Burger King (12,700), Wendy's (6,650), Taco Bell (6,400), and Arby's (3,400) put together.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: McDonald's restaurant in Moses Lake, Washington.Photographs: Jeff T Green/Reuters
McDonald's opened 1,400 restaurants across the globe in 2012 alone.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: Computer terminals called kiosks line the counter at a McDonald's restaurant in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters
The restaurant chain serves about 13 billion servings of fries each year.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: People pass a McDonald's restaurant on 42nd Street in Times Square in New York City.Photographs: Peter Morgan/Reuters
It employs 1.8 million people at its 34,000 restaurants around the world.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: A McDonald's restaurant in Chicago.Photographs: Frank Polich/Reuters
McDonald's spent $788 million on advertising in 2012, which works out to be about 2 per cent of the $488 billion worldwide advertising market.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: McDonald's corporate headquarters in Oakbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Photographs: John Gress/Reuters
The restaurant chain serves about 63 million customers everyday across its 34,000 global locations.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: A customer buys food from McDonald's drive-thru in Shanghai, China.Photographs: Stringer/Reuters
The largest chain of hamburger fast-food restaurants in the world sells about 75 hamburgers every second.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: People walk in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Bucharest, Romania.Photographs: Radu Sigheti/Reuters
McDonald's, which employs 1,800,000 people worldwide, hires about one million workers in the United States every year.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: A customer walks out of a McDonald's restaurant in New York City.Photographs: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
The company, which began operations in 1940, says one in every eight American worker has worked at McDonald's.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: A McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo, Japan.Photographs: Stringer/Reuters
McDonald's, which reported net income of $5.46 billion in 2012, employs more workers than any other private company in the United Kingdom.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: Two McDonald's Happy Meal with toy watches fashioned after the characters Donkey and Puss in Boots from the movie 'Shrek Forever After' are pictured in Los Angeles.Photographs: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
It's the largest distributor of toys in the world, with one included in 20 per cent of all sales.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: McDonald's restaurant in Norwalk, California.Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters
One billion pounds of beef is consumed at McDonald's restaurants in the United States alone.
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13 amazing facts that reveal McDonald's growth
Image: A McDonald's restaurant in Chicago.Photographs: John Gress/Reuters/Reuters
More people recognise McDonald's golden arches than the cross itself.
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