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Profile of the potential franchisee in Romania Using a sample collected by the IMO and CEBR that includes 1,449 Romanian individuals prospective franchisees, the study indicates that women are more involved in prior start-up entrepreneurial activities (9.58%), whereas men show a slightly higher rat...
April 12th, 2008

Popular franchise Boost Juice has tied-up a deal with Nestle UK to launch a new range of smoothies. Boost opened its first fresh juice store in Britain under a master franchise agreement in Manchester last year. There are currently eight Boost Juice stores in Britain, and 200 worldwide. Boost Jui...
April 10th, 2008

Despite the slow-down in the housing market, house dressing company Home Stagers reckons now is the time to expand its franchise into Manchester. “There is so much development going on in central Manchester — all those industrial buildings being converted, and as we go out to the edges of Greater ...
April 8th, 2008

Siler Chapman, the area's pizza dough-tossing celebrity, is becoming less of an artist and more of an entrepreneur. Chapman, a 24-year-old pizza champion who has won dozens of contests and made appearances on the Food Network and the Ellen DeGeneres Show, recently closed his Si's Pizzeria in Rock Hi...
April 6th, 2008

"I am thinking about buying a franchise in a particular industry. There are three franchises currently operating in this industry, and I would like to buy one of their existing franchises, rather than start one up myself from scratch. I have contacted all three franchises and asked them to sen...
April 4th, 2008

Ask any successful franchise what is the reason behind his success and one of the most common answers will be the location. To put it simply, there are some franchise opportunities that won’t succeed in an unfavorable location, even if it’s one of the top franchises in the industry! Why is the locat...
April 2nd, 2008

Emerging markets group celebrates year of achievements. Worldwide lodging franchisor Choice Hotels International today announced that its emerging markets team added 40 new franchisees in 2007- approximately a 15 percent increase over 2006. With executed franchise agreements for all ten Choice ho...
March 31st, 2008

Ian Swain lies awake at night thinking of the costs he and his partners face for the two franchise restaurants for which they just began construction. Their location in Northeast Washington is “the hottest corridor of real estate in town,” he tells himself, which is helpful to think about, consider...
March 29th, 2008

Brisbane-based fast food chain Domino's Pizza has continued its Australian expansion with the acquisition of a pizza franchise in southern states. Domino's chief executive Don Meij today announced his company had paid an undisclosed sum of money for the Pinky's Pizza chain, which operates in Victor...
March 27th, 2008

International hotel chain Accor pulled back its franchise from Karachi Airport Hotel after the owner started negotiating better terms with other brands, The News learnt on Saturday. Mercure, one of the brands of Accor, was running the managerial affairs of the airport hotel opened in March 2007, as...
March 25th, 2008

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