The Franchise Magazine: House-Hut Estate Agents has announced plans to step up its recruitment of franchise owners. “Now was probably the best time for a decade to enter the estate agency industry,” said Franchise Director Maria Mitchell. “We have just gone through a housing recession in which we have seen a massive reduction in the […]
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Inside Retailing: UK chocolatier Thorntons traded strongly throughout its first quarter, growing sales by 2.3 per cent to £46.8 million. Thorntons’ own store sales increased by 1.9 per cent to £27.1 million with like for like sales growth of 1.3 per cent. Despite the growth in own store sales, franchise sales declined by 15.2 per
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Trading Markets: On Sept. 16, Pizza Patron, the nation’s number one Latin pizza brand, unveiled its new Latin-themed concession designs at the American Airlines Center (AAC). A fitting tribute to the new motif, the introduction coincided with the annual Sept. 16 celebration of Mexican Independence Day, also known as Fiestas Patrias. The remodels are part
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Franchising.com: Leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection, has today announced a deal with energy drink supplier, Voltz. As a result of the agreement, the popular Voltz energy drink brand will be distributed to 15,000 retail outlets throughout the UK by Card Connection’s network of franchisees who deliver to stores including Netto, Budgens, Londis,
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The New York Times: For more than 500 years the book has been a remarkably stable entity: a coherent string of connected words, printed on paper and bound between covers. But in the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube, the notion of the book is becoming increasingly elastic as publishers mash together text, video
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WA Business News: From successful franchisees to hard-working owner-operators, husband and wife team Yvette Jones and Michael Donald are on track with plans to establish a network of gourmet delicatessens in the western suburbs. For the past two years, the couple has been fine-tuning operations at their gourmet deli in Subiaco, and they are now
photo credit: roland FastCompany: Canon Pixma iP100. Roughly the size of a piece of paper itself, Canon’s 4.4-pound mobile printer fits in your travel bag and is faster than most desktop printers (black-and-white clocks in at three seconds per page). Add Bluetooth ($50) and skip fussing with USB cords. Most of us don’t really care
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Santa is getting savvy this season. Parents who wish to have their children’s photos taken with him will have to pay a $15 service fee reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Santa’s PR person explained that the new fees are because of a high number of no-show appointments the previous year. Of the advance fee,
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photo credit: Korean Resource Center ë¯¼ì¡±í•™êµ BusinessWeek: Choreographing, or at least dancing in step with your organization’s culture, is critical to leadership. Move well with it, and it enables you to get great things done. Buck it or be victimized by it, and it can be your downfall. Within every company there is a culture
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The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal poses an interesting question: If the Internet is so full of snarkiness then why do product reviews usually tend to be positive? The Journal says 4.3 (out of five) stars is the standard grade a reviewer assigns on the web. But this “grade Inflation” may not be
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