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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016
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Money Talks:
Nice move as Under Armour announced its largest college sponsorship deal ever with UCLA yesterday. The $280 million deal will be for cash and give the college apparel over a 15 year span. The deal averages $18.7 million a year, and is bigger than the current biggest deal --Nike's deals with Ohio State and Texas, which pay the colleges $16.7 and $16.8 million a year.
Bid'ness is Bid'ness:
A distillery in Northern California made a vodka that tastes like San Francisco.
Alameda-based company 'Hangar 1' says their vodka is made out of real fog from the city-by-the-bay. They use special fog catchers to turn bay area mist into fresh water, then blend it with "vodka distilled from premium wine." A spokesman says they wanted to make something fun and creative and different that could also help out drought-stricken California. Each bottle of Fog Point sells for $125-dollars and proceeds go to California water conservancy. (Still)Survey sez:
Congrats to Chick-fil-A and Subway, who got the top marks in the latest fast-food poll about "delivering the best customer experience." The annual ranking is based on a survey of 10-thousand customers.
Chick-fil-A scored 78-percent, while Subway had a rating of 75-percent.
McDonalds and Burger King tied as the lowest scoring fast food restaurants. Each received a rating of 65-percent, putting them in 100th place among all the companies rated. The ratings were done across 20 industries; 294 companies were rated. The scoring among the fast-food companies:
18. (tie) Burger King and McDonalds (65%)
17. Baskin Robbins (66%)
16. KFC (68%)
15. Domino's (69%)
13. (tie) Jack in the Box and Sonic Drive-In (70%)
11. (tie) Starbucks and Wendy's (71%)
9. (tie) Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen (72%)
5. (tie) Arby's, Taco Bell, Hardees and Dunkin' Donuts (73%)
3. (tie) IHOP and Little Caesar's (74%)
2. Subway (75%)
1. Chick-fil-A (78%)
In the ratings, a score of 70% or above is considered "good," and a score of 80% or above is considered "excellent." As you can see, none of the companies earned an "excellent" score. -
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