McD chairman-CEO Skinner to be keynote at NRA show

Nation's Restaurant News,  April 28, 2008  

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CHICAGO -- Jim Skinner, vice chairman and chief executive of McDonald's Corp., has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the 2008 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show.

It will be held at the McCormick Place convention center here May 17-20, with Skinner speaking on Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m.

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Skinner was named to his current post in November 2004 after having served in several leadership positions at the world's largest restaurant chain, based in Oak Brook, Ill.

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