June 20, 2011

Jamie Oliver Competition Prize Boost For Ovenclean Franchisee

Franchise News International (blog): Ovenclean ran a high profile competition on the popular JamieOliver.com website, which generated almost 5,000 hits on the UKâ€™s leading domestic oven cleaning specialistâ€™s own website. The lucky winner of the SMEG microwave was Margaret Fernie in Aberdeen. Lillian Shand, Ovenclean franchisee in Aberdeen personally delivered the microwave to her. Lillian […]

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Giant Tiger Celebrates 50 Years Of Local Success

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Ottawa.ctv.ca: Many Giant Tiger stores rolled out the welcome mat Saturday for their 50th anniversary celebrations. The original store in the Byward Market spilled out into the parking lot with buskers, a live band and a cake display that took up an entire table. It’s a show of thanks to the community that CEO Andy

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Curves Loses Stamina, Closing Fitness Clubs

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WSJ: Curves International Inc., whose 30-minute workout for women once made it among the world’s fastest-growing franchises, seems to be running out of steam. Over the past three years its U.S. franchisees have been closing outlets at a rapid rate, shrinking the chain by about a third: to 5,208 U.S. sites at the end of

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The Creation Station Doubles Number Of Female Franchise Owners

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British Franchise Association: The UK’s leading children’s activity franchise The Creation Station announces the award of 23 new franchises to women in the first 5 months of 2011. This brings the total number of Creation Station franchises in the UK to over 45 and makes the business one of the fastest growing franchise businesses in

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Dot Anything

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The Register: The number of top-level internet domains is set to double over the next few years, after ICANN today approved the launch of a program that will let any company apply to run dot-anything. In January next year, essentially any organization will be able to submit an application to ICANN for a virtually any

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Entrepreneur Of The Year Finalists: Scentsy’s Orville and Heidi Thompson

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Deseret News: Orville and Heidi Thompson believe that struggle and failure formed the foundation that led to the success of Scentsy Inc., the popular purveyor of wickless candles, warmers and accessories. In the early 1990s, Orville Thompson lost his job and struggled to find another. Their response, creating a family business selling gadgets and cleaning

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Starting Small With Mini Sales Space

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Angie Robbins always dreamed of starting her own business, but the thought of opening a shop on a server’s income made her nervous. At least, that was until a new mini mall came to town. According to FloridaToday.com, Petite Boutiques will create affordable sales space for people like Angie who want to start a business

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When The Community Bank Meets A Young Entrepreneur

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The Main Street Bank of Detroit has always tried to help local entrepreneurs. They recently took an extra step in helping entrepreneurs, by tapping a 10 year old President and CEO to provide some of their office supplies, reports Examiner.com. Main Street was looking for a unique marketing message to put on their pencils and

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Chief Exec Leaves Job For Baby Clothes

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Guillaume Gauthereau used to wake up at 3:30 in the morning to check important emails and push himself through a long day that never ended until 10:30 pm. After a while the long days wore him down, and he decided it was time to go into business for himself. So, he created Totsy, reports portfolio.com.

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Hudsons Coffee Counts Beans For Local Charities

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Franchising.net.au: Hudsons Coffee’s Sugar and Spice and Something Nice campaign began on 23 May and will run until 3 July with 50 cents from each vanilla latte and caramel cappuccino sold being donated to charities of the franchisee’s choosing. Managers and franchisees from the 69 Hudsons stores around Australia have selected a local charity each

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