Peterborough Today: Businesses will learn about using the power of the internet at the next Peterborough Local Franchisee Network meeting on Thursday, June 30. At the event, which starts at 6.30pm at the Ramada Hotel, Thorpe Meadows, Peterborough, key speaker Nick Strong, managing director of Franweb, will discuss how to engage with customers effectively in […]
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Reuters: When Jack Butorac spotted a sleepy pizza operation in Toledo, Ohio, he saw the makings of a winner, despite confessing he “knew nothing about pizza.” Nearly a decade later Marco’s Pizza is the fastest-growing pizza chain no one has ever heard of. It’s attempting to carve a slice of the saturated U.S. pizza market,
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A Wisconsin Girl Scouts council is really no different from Dunkin’ Donuts, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, and under Wisconsin franchise law, it should be protected like a franchisee. As a result, the Manitou Council has emerged victorious in a years-long legal battle to block the national Girl Scouts chartering organization
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Nashville Business Journal: A Memphis-based Captain D’s franchisee has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Memphis Daily News reports. The company, Sonfish LLC, employs 363 people and operates 21 restaurants in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. An attorney representing Sonfish told the newspaper the company planned to close four to six unprofitable locations as part of
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PR.com: Officially completed with their compliance documents; Storm Guard Restoration is ready to launch their franchise concept. Paving a path in an industry that is always evolving, Storm Guard is recognized nationally as the first franchised system for exterior insurance restoration. In an insurance industry that has damages exceeding over one billion dollars in claims
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
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Kansas City Business Journal: The Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year are Bonnie Kelly, Jerry Kelly and Teresa Walsh, co-founders, Silpada Designs Jewelry. Long-time best friends Bonnie Kelly and Theresa Walsh took $25 from their grocery fund to pursue their passion for sterling silver jewelry. They began designing jewelry and hosting parties. In 1997, after hundreds
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Club Industry: After Anytime Fitness clubs closed unexpectedly in India, the Hastings, MN-based company cut ties with the master franchisee in that country. The decision to end the agreement with Chandan Lunawat, chairman and managing director of Anytime India Fitness Private Limited, was made at the beginning of May, according to Anytime Fitness President and
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Edmonton Sun: Since an excellent Saturday evening at the Famoso Neapolitan Pizza, the one in the big-box Christy’s Corner shopping centre at 137 Avenue and St. Albert Trail, I’m experiencing a flashback. The Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria chain, since first opening five years ago at Jasper and 118 Street, is now four strong in the region,
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Connectus.net: This list represents the top 7 percent of the nation’s franchises that are doing the most to recruit military veterans. It is determined by the G.I. Jobs Military Friendly Franchising team in conjunction with a Military Friendly Franchise Advisory Board, who help determine the survey questions and weightings. The survey focus areas include a
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