Centre Daily Times: Menchie’s experienced a banner 2010 as heightened cravings for frozen desserts helped catapult the brand to its status as the nation’s fastest growing frozen yogurt franchise. After only three years of franchising, Menchie’s has opened more than 60 frozen yogurt stores, 40 which opened this past year alone. In addition, Menchie’s has […]
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The Franchise Magazine: Getting out of the corporate rat race and starting their own business is an attractive option to many people. However,not everybody has a unique idea or a competitive advantage, so how can you succeed in running your own business when statistics tell the story that many fail? Experts say franchising is generally
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San Francisco Chronicle: Entrepreneur Magazine and Entrepreneur.com have released their Top 10 Franchising Trends for 2010 – and Moving and Storage Services was included on that list. Named specifically within the category – Zippy Shell USA, LLC. According to Entrepreneur.com, “Americans move, on average, every five years, and with the economy starting to recover, moving
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Franchising.com: Today, Flippers Pizzeria announced a multi-unit franchise deal with David Lo, President of Delocie LLC. According to Ian Schneider, VP Franchise Development at Flippers Pizzeria, the first restaurant related to this multi-unit franchise deal will open in the first quarter of 2011. “We are really excited about this new relationship between Flippers Pizzeria and
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Among mankind’s greatest inventions or discoveries: the automobile, airplane, baseball, light bulb, jazz, telephone, radio, penicillin, motion pictures, television, rock ‘n’ roll, computers and, of course, the squeegee. Hey, don’t laugh. Where would we be without the squeegee? We need sparkling windows to look more clearly at the muddled outside world. According to The Oakland
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PR Newswire: In 2010, The Passion Parties Charitable Foundation (PPCF) donated more than $40,000 to North American charities supporting women and children including: the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Southern California & Nevada Chapter, The Southern Nevada Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Alberta & Northwest Territories Division,
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Whoops! The new bills’ high-tech anti-counterfeiting features were too much for government printers. Now about a billion bills are in quarantine, and many will need to be burned. Printer errors–we’ve all been the victims at one point or another. But what if a printer error set you back $100 billion? That’s the situation the Federal
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A real estate investor and tech executive have come together to create a new business incubator model for young tech companies, reports The Dallas Morning News. Their Tech Multiplier is the latest in a string of new offerings of office space, funding and mentoring for entrepreneurs this year, a trend that points to the improving
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As any pet owner would know, animals feel anxiety. New situations, thunderstorms, travel, etc. can all have an effect on them. A professional dog trainer, Susan Sharpe, was looking for a way to help new dogs relax when they were dropped off at her Doggie Resort. Aware of some work in this area on other
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PSFK.com reports that one of the winning entries at the 2010 Red Dot Concept Design is the “Haptic Braille” by Baek Kil Hyun. The mouse-shaped device scans any text, identifies the characters using optical character recognition technology and converts them into Braille on its surface, enabling the visually impaired to read any printed material, without
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