March 2014
| Business World Magazine | 17
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
BY THE NUMBERS
1.2 percent
– Global increase in same-store
sales reported by McDonalds in January,
which included a 5.4 percent increase in the
Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa division.
$69.1 million
– Sales figure for the opening
weekend of “The Lego Movie” in U.S. the-
aters.
$5 billion
–Amount paid byChrysler Group
to a United Auto Workers trust, completing
the final payments the carmaker owed as a re-
sult of its bankruptcy.
$7.7 billion
– Total amount given by the top
50 U.S. philanthropic donors in 2013, ac-
cording to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
$8.5 billion
– Adjusted pretax 2013 profit
for London-based Barclays, England’s sec-
ond-largest bank, down 26 percent from
2012.
