PR Newswire: 7-Eleven, Inc. announced today that its famous frozen, carbonated Slurpee® drink now has its own application available for iPhone and Android through iTunes and Android marketplaces. The Slurpee application makes it easy for Slurpee fans to find 7-Eleven® stores to get their Slurpee fix on the road or in their own hometown. The […]
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Franchising.com: In less than four years, Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning® has become the nation’s fastest-growing environmentally-friendly carpet cleaning services franchise, having grown to over 200 locations across the United States with many more in development. That rapid expansion is a big reason BrandCentric Games approached Oxi Fresh® to be one of 12 franchise brands represented
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Bizjournals.com: Swisher Hygiene Inc. has acquired the hygiene and chemicals business operated by Lasfam Investments Inc., its franchisee in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lasfam operates a restroom-hygiene business under the trade name “Sani-Service.†The company was founded in 1995. The deal is valued at nearly $1.7 million in cash, and the assumption of liabilities and a
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Franchising.net.au: A new online TV channel dedicated to the reail industry has been launched and is bringing the latest news, interviews, developments and innovations in the sector – including franchising – to a global audience. Retail Vision features an online stream of TV programs covering all that is new about product innovation, store formats and
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Franchising.com: Domino’s Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, will put an exclamation mark on an impressive 2010 by celebrating its 50th birthday on Dec. 9. The company, which 50 years ago today opened its first store in the college town of Ypsilanti, Mich., will commemorate the occasion by ringing The Closing Bell(R) at
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TheStar Online: The amended Direct Sales Act 1993, which is scheduled to be enforced early next year, will see heavier penalties for offenders. Deputy Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Tan Lian Hoe said this in her speech during the launch of wellness company One Community Worldwide’s eMerchant phase. “My ministry is working hard
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Two Wisconsin entrepreneurs are hoping to infringe on the lucrative wearable blanket’s territory, the Associated Press reports. Tyler Galganski and Dave Hibler, the 25-year old founders of Forever Lazy, peddle their fleece, footless, hooded “adult onesies” online from Hibler’s parents’ basement. And while the operation may seem casual, the Wisconsin pair have actually gained quite
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If you want to check up on the bona fides of your plumber or your electrician, you contact your local chapter of the Better Business Bureau. Lately, though, news organizations have been questioning the BBB’s own bona fides. The BBB’s rating system, they say, is at best uninformed and at worst corrupt. Until recently, the
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A ten year old boy from the UK has created a unique invention that can be used by cyclists to alert people in cars that they are nearby reports North Wales Weekly News. Tybalt Melia from Capel Curig won the final of the BBC’s My Genius Idea show on Tuesday with the Bike Bleeper, inspired
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Inventing might start with a good idea, but the real work comes when you turn that idea into something that can be used. The process, which can be very complicated, is sometimes enough to stop a really good idea from going anywhere. Now there is a web service that can help inventors turn those ideas
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