Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A couple of years ago, meal-preparation businesses were sprouting across the country. Trend spotters were commenting on the growth, and franchisers were talking big. But what seemed like promising prospects turn out to have been not so robust, and the once-surging sector now is shrinking. The widely embraced idea was that time-strapped […]
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The Wichita Eagle: A defunct Wichita real estate firm is being sued by its national franchiser for allegedly using GMAC logos after the local franchise was terminated. In a breach of contract and trademark infringement lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, GMAC Real Estate LLC alleges that
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Make Small Business: As with any other business, franchising has a number of advantages and disadvantages. Keeping these in view, an investor can decide whether they want to open an independent business or a franchise. One of the major advantages of franchising is that the company would deal with most of the financial aspect of
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Al-Bawaba: Global Investment House “Global†announced today it has established synergy and cooperation between its two portfolio companies through Al Sawani for Food & Industrial Supply Company (Al Sawani) and Future Kid Entertainment & Real Estate Company (Future Kid). Al Sawani and Future Kid entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join forces for
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PR.com: Five Star Painting is excited to announce its expansion into Columbus, Ohio with a new franchisee, Ross Gill. He will work closely with Tom Hodgson, the Chief Operating Officer of Five Star’s East Coast operations. With a background in business and finance, Five Star was a perfect model for Ross to leverage his experience.
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Abbotsford Mission Times: Going from a conventional stay-at-home-mother who loved to bake to a successful business owner, Tracy Dueck is now a firm believer that ‘if you build it, they will come.’ Offering scrumptious cupcakes and other sweet and savoury delicacies, Dueck’s Tracycakes Bakery cupcake concept café is the only one of its kind in
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Ledger-Enquirer.com: Think it’s too much of a hassle to drive to the Kia plant for work? Naomi Cason and Ronald Henry have a solution. About a year ago, the mother-son pair established Bi-City Transportation, a shuttle service that provides round-trip services for Kia workers from Columbus to West Point. Henry said the business offers an
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Athens Banner-Herald: When former Jefferson resident Vivian Hoard was working “24/7” as a tax litigator for a large Atlanta law firm, she often came home at night to a sleeping family, but she always could rely on the family cat, Ludwig, to sit in her lap and purr contentedly. “When I’d come home at all
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Wired: The economy may be tanking, but innovation is alive and well. When it came to products, incremental improvements were the name of the game this year. Phones got faster (iPhone 3G anyone?), notebooks turned into netbooks and pocket cameras went from recording standard-definition video to HD. Here’s our countdown of what rocked our world
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DMNews: HerbalBuddy.com, an online distributor of Herbalife products in the United States, has increased its e-mail sales conversions by 50% after streamlining its e-mail communications. The online distributor was challenged by workflow efficiency and was concerned that customer inquiries were not getting through to its staff. So, HerbalBuddy.com partnered with Email Center Pro to help
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