Franchising.com: D’Lish Franchise Group, franchisor of D’lish – a one-of-a-kind soda pop and sweet shop – today announced the opening of its first store slated for Friday, Oct. 30 at the Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah. The opening marks the first of nine locations the company plans to open over the next eight months. […]
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PR.com: During the last 5 years, many Americans saw their dream come true of owning their own home. Qualifying for a mortgage, choosing your dream home, and celebrating with a house warming was easier than purchasing a new car. For many families today, the thought of keeping up with mortgage payments, decreasing home values, or
Arizona Republic: In a business sense, entrepreneur Chuck Bongiovanni feels like he has 11 children. His “offspring” are new franchises scattered across the country, in cities such as St. Louis, Houston, Milwaukee and Charlotte, N.C. Bongiovanni, founder of Gilbert-based CarePatrol Assisted Living Services, says dozens more are on the way. CarePatrol, founded in January, began
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Jennifer Walzer was one of more than 90,000 employees and referred to only as a number; never by name. She was feeling overlooked, overworked and underappreciated before starting the successful data storage company Backup My Info!in 2002 reports Entrepreneur. Walzer decided to take her first leap of faith and launch her first business in 1998.
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Texting while driving is foolhardy behaviour, with studies showing it’s more dangerous than getting behind the wheel when you’re drunk. A US company is proposing a solution. TXTBlocker is a combination of phone software and online services that stops drivers from calling or texting while in motion reports The Brisbane Times. Parents supply their child
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Reuters: Great American Cookies®, innovators of the original Cookie Cake, announced today that the company has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to promote the November 2009 Blu-ray and DVD release of “Aliens in the Attic.” The multifaceted promotion will include a limited-edition Cookie Cake, an exclusive coupon offer, and more. The promotion is
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Oak Brook Business Ledger: Many people looking to buy a business consider buying a franchise. After all, they think the franchisor has a cookie-cutter approach that can’t miss and they can just walk into the new business, which will be flush with cash. In the numbers I have read, four out of five new franchise
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Ubergizmo is reporting that the Air Board is a $14,000 personal hovercraft that will float 8″ above the ground at all times, reaching a maximum speed of 15 mph while running around and about for an hour or so on just 1.3 gallons of gas. A couple of levers on the steering bar ensures you
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With Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season weeks away, many small business owners are planning holiday parties for employees and clients despite the still wobbly economy. But the celebrations are expected to be low-key, frugal and, some say, much more fun reports The Associated Press. Even owners whose businesses are doing better say
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Triantafyllos Tafas is best known for his complex inventions. But now he’s won an important legal and regulatory victory that, he and his lawyers believe, will assist small companies and individual entrepreneurs across the country writes The Connecticut Law Tribune. A lawsuit Tafas filed in 2007 halted new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules from
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