The Franchise Magazine: Combining high-end, internationally-known branded product lines with an affordable superstore concept has seen retailer Glamour Secrets become the largest professional retailer of its kind in its home country of Canada. With 66 stores opened since is was launched as Trade Secrets in 1989, the company has expanded across Canada and is starting […]
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Cincinnati Business Courier: If taking over a restaurant is the true test of business acumen, then Brian Schaaf passed both the midterm and the final exam. Schaaf, 25, was fresh out of college when he bought the Jimmy John’s sandwich shop franchise in Deerfield Township two years ago. He’s increased sales by 50 percent, cut
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Earthtimes: As foreclosures continue to spike and the number of vacant homes on the market for sale spirals higher, homeowners are increasingly vulnerable to companies that peddle questionable services or outright scams. Thomas Scott, vice president of operations for Showhomes, the country’s largest home staging company, says conditions are ripe in the foreclosure and high-end
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Nation’s Restaurant News: PhaseNext Hospitality and Corner Bakery Café have partnered on a franchising deal for the opening of 12 new non-traditional locations over the next five years, the companies said Monday. PhaseNext was created earlier this year by Rosalyn Mallet and Amy O’Neil, former Caribou Coffee executives, to franchise restaurants in non-traditional venues such
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Fortune Small Business reports that Saul Griffith gets up to 30 e-mails a day from qualified scientists eager to work for him. He can’t afford to hire them, so he wants to inspire them to be entrepreneurs instead. Pithy articles about genius boys be damned,” says the 35-year-old Australian, thumping the table at a San
SYS-CON Media: Young entrepreneur Ryan P. stumbles upon American Consumer Financial Network, allowing him to start his own business before the age of 30. Starting a business is usually a dream many entrepreneurs achieve later in life. Most start their journey as members of the workforce, pinching pennies wherever possible to build a nest egg
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For all the continual media frenzy over Facebook and Twitter, the most remarkable social networking story of all may well be LinkedIn, the global social network for business professionals founded by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman in December 2002 reports The Telegraph. While the LinkedIn 50 million may pale in comparison with the Facebook
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Weddings are expensive. So are engagement rings and honeymoons and everything else peripherally associated with your nuptials so Valentine’s Jewelry, is trying to help you keep costs down writes WalletPop. The jeweler has teamed up with Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines to put together a really awesome offer. Customers who purchase engagement rings from
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For people who have either been forced out of their jobs or have always wished they could work for themselves, the idea of owning a small business, at first glance, may seem like a wish come true, an article in The Portland Business Journal explains. This is the point, however, when a beginning entrepreneur needs
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U.S. companies hurt by the global credit crisis are continuing to hold more cash, even as the economy begins to show signs of improvement, The Wall Street Journal said, citing its analysis of company filings. In the second quarter, the 500 largest non-financial U.S. companies by total assets held about $994 billion in cash and
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