George Alan Cohon was an American-born Canadian businessman and lawyer who was the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's Russia.
McDonald's Corporation, doing business as McDonald's, is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and, in 1961, bought out the McDonald brothers. Previously headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, it moved to nearby Chicago in June 2018. McDonald's is also a real estate company through its ownership of around 70% of restaurant buildings and 45% of the underlying land.
The American fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's was founded in 1940 by the McDonald brothers, Richard and Maurice, and has since grown to the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue. The McDonald brothers began the business in San Bernardino, California where the brothers set out to sell their barbecue. However, burgers were more popular with the public and the business model switched to a carhop drive-in style of restaurant. From the 1940s to the mid 1950s, the brothers expanded their business, even incorporating the golden arches, until Ray Kroc turned their small business into the well-known and commercially successful business that it is today. Kroc convinced the brothers to move into a more self-serve business model and to expand nationwide.
Iskander Kakhramonovich Makhmudov is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman.
Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev is a Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. Until 1992, he was an officer in the First Chief Directorate of the Soviet Union′s KGB and later one of the KGB's successor-agencies, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
Vladimir Sergeyevich Gruzdev is a Russian entrepreneur and a politician. He was a deputy of the State Duma (2003-2011) and governor of the Tula Oblast (2011-2016). Since December 2016 - Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.
Yury Chyzh is a Belarusian businessman, believed to be one of the country's richest people. According to estimates, he is the second-wealthiest businessman in Belarus, the first being Vladimir Peftiev. On March 23, 2012, Chyzh was included in EU's travel ban list because of his alleged ties to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
Oleg Yuryevich Tinkov is a Russian-born entrepreneur and businessesman.
Ilham Mammadhasan oglu Rahimov – Azerbaijani and Russian legal scholar, entrepreneur, and author of scientific works on criminology.
Andrei Vladimirovich Skoch is a Russian billionaire businessman, part owner of the steelmaker Lebedinsky Mining. According to the U.S. Forbes Magazine, Skoch is among the richest Russians and was listed in The World's Billionaires in 2012. Skoch is a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation since 1999.
God Semenovich Nisanov is a Russian-Azerbaijani billionaire property developer and co-owner of the Kievskaya Ploshchad. In 2023, Forbes ranked Nisanov as the 1027th wealthiest person globally, with a net worth of $2.9 billion, placing him 43rd in the Russian ranking.
Boris Iosifovich Mints is a Russian oligarch with interests in real estate and finance, and co-founder of Otkritie FC Bank. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Red&White is a Russian retailer with a network of eponymous self-service shops. The network bills itself as "shopping at home". Although the shops have a wider range of products than liquor stores, their main business is the sale of prepackaged alcoholic beverages. The head office is located in Chelyabinsk. Also, the company has 18 regional offices.
Dodo Pizza is a multinational pizza сhain founded in 2011 in Syktyvkar, Russia. Operating under the umbrella of QSR group Dodo Brands, the company has more than 1000 restaurants in 21 countries across Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Michael Calvey is an American businessman and was one of Russia's most prominent foreign investors. His controversial Russian criminal conviction on embezzlement and the subsequent nullification of the case was widely publicized in Russia and the world.
Christopher John Kempczinski is an American business executive, and the president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's Corporation.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Russia had an economic impact.
From 1990 to 2022, the American fast food chain McDonald's operated and franchised McDonald's restaurants in Russia.
Vkusno i Tochka is a Russian fast food chain based mostly in former McDonald's restaurants, with a menu that largely consists of rebranded McDonald's items. McDonald's closed their Russian stores in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Vkusno i Tochka restaurants mostly occupy former McDonald's restaurants that were sold to business magnate and entrepreneur Alexander Govor, who was a company licensee in Siberia.
