McDonald's Corporation
McDonald's Corporation is an organization in the Retail sector. Paper Trail tracks its public-money, lobbying, campaign-finance, corporate, and People relationships where supported by public records.
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Why It Is Included
Included as a major institution relevant to Paper Trail research; individual public-record connections appear only when sourced.
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What does McDonald's Corporation control?
Business segments, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and acquired companies connected to the parent organization.
Legal-subsidiary lists are drawn from reviewed SEC Exhibit 21 filings. Companies may omit subsidiaries that are not considered significant under SEC reporting rules, so these lists are not necessarily exhaustive.
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The Paper Trail Project. “McDonald's Corporation.” Accessed November 7, 2026. https://www.papertrailproject.org/profiles/mcdonalds
Record last updated 2026-09-02. Sources: Official organization website. Verify consequential claims against the linked original records.