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Dunkin Donuts warns about e-mail scam - WLNE-TV (ABC6)

( Corporate and Promotions and Legal )

The coffee giant says that e-mail messages are promising a free $25 gift card.
The company says “Dunkin’ Donuts is not affiliated with these offers, does not sponsor nor endorse this activity and is unable to fulfill these offers.”
Dunkin’ spokesman Andrew Mastrangelo tells the Boston Herald that this is “clearly fraudulent.”
The company has sent cease-and-desist orders […]

Dunkin’ Donuts Event

Good morning DD Lovers-
I spoke with the PR Director for the AMA Boston chapter this morning and she informed they are having an event around Dunkin’ Donuts coming up next month. It looks like a pretty cool event with a great opportunity to hear about Dunkin’ Donuts marketing, PR and brand management directly from […]

Dunkin’ Donuts expands in Michigan

( News and Corporate )

Dunkin’ Donuts plans to open 100 stores in Metro Detroit by 2009, beefing up its presence in the Midwest, after opening hundreds of locations in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., in recent years.
The Canton, Mass.-based chain is set to open 10 new stores in Redford, Warren, Sterling Heights, Monroe and other communities by year’s […]

Dunkin’ Donuts founder dies

( News and Corporate and Community )

No one ever built a larger business empire around nothing ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú in this case the hole in the center of a doughnut ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú than William Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, who achieved fortune but not fame after founding Dunkin’ Donuts, died Friday of colon cancer at the age of 86 at his home in Mashpee, Mass., on Cape Cod.
Using […]

Dunkin’ Donuts plan major expansion in Poland

( News and Corporate )

Central European Foods, franchisee of Dunkin’ Donuts has announced that it intends to open 400 new restaurants in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia in the next eight years. 280 of these outlets will be in this country.
The US chain is the second largest franchising operation in the world after McDonalds and has 14 branches in […]

Dunkin’ Donuts sees six-month sales growth

( Financial and News and Corporate )

Partnerships with such brands as Stop & Shop and the Home Depot helped spur six-month sales growth for Dunkin’ Donuts, one of three units of Randolph-based Allied Domecq Quick Service Restaurants.
For the six months that ended Feb. 28, Dunkin’ Donuts posted a 9 percent growth in systemwide sales, driven by a 4 percent increase in […]

Dunkin’ Donuts to Change Ownership

( Financial and News and Corporate )

Three American private equity firms have agreed to purchase Dunkin’ Donuts and its sister Baskin-Robbins ice cream and Togo sandwich chains for $2.43 billion. French wine and spirits maker Pernod Richard SA announced that Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital and the Carlyle Group were the winning bidders for parent company Dunkin’ Brands in […]