New Zimbabwe.com: The World’s biggest fast-food chain, McDonalds, has reportedly targeted Zimbabwe as a new market for its outlets as the country continues to recover from the economic chaos experienced over the last decade. McDonalds tried to get into the country in 1999 but was put off by the simmering political and economic instability. Over […]
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Joke-telling robots, expensive walking tunnels, Blackberries for smokers, and training American prostitutes to drink responsibly. What do these things have in common? They’re all questionable government spending projects in a time when our economy is struggling and people can’t get jobs… or, maybe they just made them up. Find out.
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Franchise Key: Whitbread PLC, one of the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant groups, announced last month that it will be spending over £7m in a major sustainability programme to boost the environmental performance of its hotels, restaurants and coffee shops as part of this year’s capital investment programme. According to the information provided, the move
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Franchising.com: Patricia Beckman empathizes with working moms and others who want to kick corporate life to the curb. A 20-year veteran of high-profile, Fortune 500 companies, Beckman set her sights high like others and accomplished many of the professional goals she aimed to achieve, but felt her hunger for success hampered home life. She’s now
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Victor Baca thought he had an invention that would make him rich… but ended up calling KUSI’s Michael Turko with a real problem. Turko says the man spent big bucks trying to turn his dream into reality, but ended up with next to nothing to show for it.
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Benzinga: Now that Starbucks is a “boring†dividend paying value stock, growth investors may want to look elsewhere in the coffee sector to get their caffeine jolt. Starbucks’ rival Caribou recently posted analysis beating second quarter earnings per share earnings of 12 cents. Caribou Coffee’s net sales for the quarter climbed nearly 9.4 percent to
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James Crow likes to think outside the box when it comes to his startup. If you were to ask him about his business philosophy then he would have to tell you that it’s happiness before the cash reports Stuff.co.nz. For Crow, that means organic growth and time with his young family are part of the
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BusinessWeek reports that Hikosaburo Yasuda of Nakano, Japan, plans to buy an iPad to keep up with junior members in his computer club. “It’s important to always try new things, otherwise you get left behind,” he says. Yasuda is 95 years old. He and his peers, looking for easier ways to browse the Web and
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If your high school had offered a class on entrepreneurship, would you have taken it? That is a question that’s being considered by a school board in the Philippines. The Surigao del Norte Gov. Sol F. Matugas hopes to convince everyone that leaving school and heading straight into a job isn’t the only option for
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Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon.com. Now the electronic book age is dawning. The New York Times is reporting that with this latest challenge, these stores will soon have a new ally: the search giant Google. Later this summer, Google plans to
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