ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino's
Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) celebrated the grand opening of the Domino's
Event Center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®
on Friday, Aug. 7, after committing
to raise $35 million in eight years,
beginning in 2015.
The Domino's Event Center is a flexible event space on the
hospital campus that can be used for hospital fundraising events,
patient and family activities, and entertainment.
"St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been part of the
Domino's family since 2004 and to date, we've raised more than
$25 million to support the hospital's
life-saving efforts," said Patrick
Doyle, Domino's president and chief executive officer. "Last
year we decided to get even more serious with our $35 million, eight-year commitment to the
children of St. Jude. The Domino's Event Center is a magnificent
facility that will be put to good use raising funds and awareness
for St. Jude."
Doyle, joined by Russell Weiner,
president, Domino's USA, and other
Domino's representatives, celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony
with Dr. James R. Downing, St. Jude
president and chief executive officer, and Richard C. Shadyac Jr., president and chief
executive officer of American Lebanese Syrian Associated
Charities® (ALSAC), the fundraising and awareness
organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. After the
ribbon-cutting, patients celebrated in the Domino's Event Center
with a pizza-making activity, lunch and a fastest pizza maker
demonstration.
"Domino's, its leadership, staff and customers have repeatedly
demonstrated their generous and heartfelt commitment to St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital, and we are grateful for their
decade-long partnership," said Shadyac. "The Domino's Event Center
will stand on campus as a permanent reminder of our partnership,
and will serve as a celebratory place for our patient families,
partners, donors and supporters."
During last year's St. Jude Thanks and
Giving® campaign, Domino's completed a
three-year, $10 million commitment
made to the hospital in 2012 – one year early. The first commitment
helped fund the St. Jude Assessment and Triage Clinic Delivered by
Domino's.
The St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign, created in 2004
by Marlo Thomas and her siblings,
Terre and Tony, children of St. Jude founder Danny Thomas, 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 mission of finding cures and
saving children. St. Jude is leading the way the world understands,
treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening
diseases.
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 11,900 stores in over 80
international markets. Domino's had global retail sales of over
$8.9 billion in 2014, comprised of
more than $4.1 billion in the U.S.
and nearly $4.8 billion
internationally. In the second quarter of 2015, Domino's had global
retail sales of nearly $2.2 billion,
comprised of $1.1 billion in the U.S.
and $1.1 billion internationally. Its
system is comprised of franchise owners who accounted for nearly
97% of Domino's stores as of the second quarter of 2015. Emphasis
on technology innovation helped Domino's generate approximately 50%
of U.S. sales from digital channels at the end of 2014, and reach
an estimated run rate of $4.0 billion
annually in global digital sales. Domino's features an ordering app
lineup that covers nearly 95% of the U.S. smartphone market and has
recently introduced several innovative ordering platforms,
including Ford SYNC®, Samsung Smart TV® and
Pebble Watch, as well as Twitter and text message using a pizza
emoji. In June 2014, Domino's debuted
voice ordering for its iPhone® and Android™
apps, a true technology first within traditional and e-commerce
retail.
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About St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital®
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the
world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. St. Jude has the world's best survival
rates for some of the most aggressive childhood cancers, and
treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall
childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since
we opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the
overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the
next decade. We won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St.
Jude freely shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved
at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that
knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a
bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because
all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Join
the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org or following St. Jude
on facebook.com/stjude and twitter.com/stjude.
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