Garner News: Anytime Fitness, the world largest and fastest growing 24-hour co-ed fitness franchise, is pleased to announce it is opened for business in the Sunset Lake Commons. With 24/7 access, Anytime Fitness offers convenient and affordable exercise. At Anytime Fitness, members can workout any time of the day or night, every day of the […]
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QSRWeb.com: KFC Corp. has been ordered to hand over almost $250,000 in unpaid corporate income taxes to the state of Iowa. Interestingly, the company doesn’t have any restaurants or employees in the state – all units are owned by franchisees. However, the franchise operators pay KFC for the use of its logo and systems, and
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Bloomberg: Pizza Hut Inc. said Wednesday that it will invest $10 million in its business in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., to make them flagship markets for the company. The company said it will create state-of-the-art restaurants in new locations there in the next year and a half working in partnership with the National
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The Franchise Key: Bartending as an Olympic sport? From keg-lifting to synchronized flairtending, bartenders around the globe have been world class athletes since the first cocktail was poured. And now, their time has come. T.G.I. Friday’s, the global casual dining leader and home to the World Bartender Championship (WBC), has just named its WBC finalists
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According to a story in The Tennessean, Mike and Sue Gay figured they had a pretty good idea for a new business, but they never expected it to become what it has. Now, 17 years into their homegrown music company that features children’s songs with a Christian bent, the couple has sold more than 20
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Franchise India: Crew Republica Retail, a retail chain of fashion accessories by Crew BOS Products Limited plans to open around 50 company owned and 70 franchised EBOs across the nation in the next five years, confirms a company official. The company is mainly targeting the various metro cities of the nation to open these outlets,
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All Things Digital: Stella & Dot’s founder and CEO Jessica Herrin is no stranger to big ideas and name-brand investors. After attending Stanford Graduate School of Business, the then 24-year-old co-founded WeddingChannel.com, which attracted an investment from Kleiner Perkins and eventually went on to be sold to The Knot. Stella & Dot’s founder and CEO
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Law enforcement agencies don’t flip through old yearbooks when they want information on a suspect anymore–they turn to Facebook and Twitter. Social media sites say they are constantly besieged with requests for information. Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that it received between 10 and 20 requests for information each day. The New York Times reports
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If your idea for a fabulous online business is still at the thinking stage, Jennifer Gault-Varner of Pure eCommerce has a proposition for you. Describe your idea for the perfect retail ecommerce business on the online form at Pure e-Commerce, and you could win the business of your dreams. The company that produces turnkey e-commerce
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Hayden Hamilton kept getting asked by his online pharmacy customers why contacts were so expensive. According to OregonLive.com, he decided to seek out an answer. He concluded there was no good reason for contacts to run $20 a box or more, other than pure profit for the handful of manufacturers that control the market. “It
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