ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino's Pizza
(NYSE: DPZ) is launching its 14th annual St. Jude Thanks and
Giving® campaign to raise "dough" for the kids of
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®. The
recognized world leader in pizza delivery's campaign begins
today, Oct. 23, 2017, and runs
through Jan. 7, 2018.
Domino's will ask customers online, over the phone and in stores
to support St. Jude by adding a donation to their order or rounding
up their order total to donate the change. Select customers
enrolled in Domino's Piece of the Pie Rewards® loyalty
program will be offered an opportunity to earn bonus points by
donating. Details will be emailed to eligible customers during the
campaign.
Customers can also help the kids of St. Jude by purchasing the
St. Jude Meal Deal – a bundle that includes two medium one-topping
Hand Tossed pizzas, a 16-piece order of Parmesan Bread Bites, an
eight-piece order of recently-introduced Cinnamon Bread Twists, a
two-liter of Coca-Cola® and a $1 donation to St. Jude – for $19.99.
"Everyone at Domino's is looking forward to coming together to
raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, an organization that has grown to be a key part of our
culture over the last 14 years," said Patrick Doyle, Domino's president and CEO. "We
hope customers will join us in making this the most prosperous
fundraising campaign yet."
Domino's has raised more than $38
million for St. Jude since becoming a national partner in
2004, and in 2015 committed to raise an additional $35 million by 2023. In 2016, Domino's and its
customers raised $7.3 million. This
year, Domino's is hoping to raise $7.5
million with the help of customers across the country.
The Domino's team has also embraced St. Jude as its national
charity partner outside of the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving season. During September, Childhood Cancer
Awareness Month, hundreds of team members in 25 cities participated
in the St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer, raising more than
$135,000 for the hospital.
"I am so grateful for our continued partnership with Domino's
and their commitment to the children of St. Jude," said
Marlo Thomas, St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital national outreach director. "Because of the
incredible support from Domino's and their customers, holiday
shoppers can help raise awareness and funds that directly support
the research that leads to lifesaving treatments for these precious
children across the country and around the world."
Created by Marlo, Terre and Tony
Thomas – children of St. Jude founder Danny Thomas – the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving campaign asks people to "Give thanks for the healthy
kids in your life, and give to those who are not" in order to help
St. Jude continue its lifesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving
children.® St. Jude is leading the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Treatments invented at St. Jude have
helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20
percent to more than 80 percent since it opened more than 50 years
ago, and they won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
About Domino's Pizza®
Founded in 1960,
Domino's Pizza is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery,
with a significant business in carryout pizza. It ranks among the
world's top public restaurant brands with a global enterprise of
more than 14,400 stores in over 85 international markets. Domino's
had global retail sales of nearly $10.9
billion in 2016, with more than $5.3
billion in the U.S. and more than $5.5 billion internationally. In the third
quarter of 2017, Domino's had global retail sales of more than
$2.8 billion, with nearly
$1.4 billion in the U.S. and over
$1.4 billion internationally. Its
system is comprised of independent franchise owners who accounted
for over 97% of Domino's stores as of the third quarter of 2017.
Emphasis on technology innovation helped Domino's reach an
estimated $5.6 billion in global
digital sales in 2016, and has produced several innovative ordering
platforms, including Google Home, Facebook Messenger, Apple Watch,
Amazon Echo, Twitter and text message using a pizza emoji. In late
2017, as part of an industry-first collaboration with Ford Motor
Company, Domino's began a meaningful test of delivery using
self-driving vehicles.
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