McDonalds

McDonald's is the world's largest chain of quick service restaurants, serving tens of millions of customers daily worldwide.

We believe passionately in using quality ingredients and working with suppliers we know and trust. We are a good customer of the British farmer and we are proud of our long-term relationships with our suppliers.

We source quality ingredients from over 17,000 British and Irish farmers. In 2009 this included all our beef, free-range eggs, pork, organic milk and much of our salad, apples and carrots when in season.

Our tea, coffee and hot chocolate is all Rainforest Alliance certified. Our fish for our fishfingers and Filet O' Fish is all sourced from Marine Stewardship Council approved fisheries.

We've worked with our free-range egg suppliers to ensure all our free-range eggs have an enriched environment, with tree cover to encourage wider ranging. And we're working with our pork suppliers to improve living conditions further to remove the need for tail docking.

We are committed to maintaining industry leading animal welfare standards. We have received three RSPCA awards in the last five years, including one for Good Business Innovation in 2009.

One of the cornerstones of McDonald's success in the UK is its property portfolio, which provides a well-located and convenient network of restaurants throughout the country for our customers to use and enjoy. There are almost 1200 restaurants to be found in a variety of locations such as traditional high streets; shopping centres; retail parks; roadside locations; leisure centres; railway and airport termini and motorway service areas. We are renowned for being the pioneers of the drive-thru restaurant concept and are the UK and world leader in this sector. This continues to be the key focus for our growth.

For more information please visit www.mcdonalds.co.uk