April 15, 2009

Park City Storage Franchisee Plans Opening For $1.2M Warehouse

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Bizjournals.com: A local Portable on Demand Storage franchise on Thursday will mark the opening of a $1.2 million warehouse in Park City. The opening coincides with the company’s three-year anniversary in the Wichita market. Ed Azar opened the franchise April 15, 2006 and operated out of a temporary site until the 35,000-square-foot warehouse was finished […]

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Mid-Market Innovators

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Mid-Market Innovators is a new site brought to you by Sun Microsystems and Intel that I’m participating in. It is a site for mid-market IT pros that offers advice from leading authors in business and technology on how to align your business and IT strategies to save money, plan for growth and foster innovation. In

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Bartering is Back in Business

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photo credit: ExperienceLA Bartering is no stranger to start-up businesses especially in the past, but today bartering is growing more and more with the recent recession. Businesses trade services and products with another business to help both of them maintain their cash flow. Businesses of all sizes are begining to use the barter system and

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Franchisees Cope With Recession

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NuWire Investor: The global recession is putting franchisees in that classic spot between a rock and a hard place. According to Charles Miller, a shareholder and director of San Francisco-based law firm Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant and Miller, a variety of factors are putting the squeeze on franchisees. “They have an obligation to pay royalties, franchise

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Ruffin’s Pet Centre Inc. Announces New Franchisee In Grimsby, Ontario

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Franchising.com: Keith Gear, VP Finance, is very pleased to welcome Terry Donovan as the new operator of the Grimsby location. “Our Grimsby store has been recognized as the premier pet centre in the region for the past 24 years and we look forward to Terry continuing with this tradition.” Mark Reynolds, President, expressed his appreciation

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