Sydney Morning Herald: Sydneysider Merrill Pereyra spent 23 years inside the ‘golden arches’. Pereyra, now 48, was a McDonald’s senior executive in Australia, responsible for expanding the firm’s operations locally and internationally. He helped build its Pacific arm, including Fiji, Tahiti and Samoa, from zero to $65 million in 10 years. The key, he says, […]
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Kansas City Star: This Panera Bread franchisee has long looked for a location in Brookside. Now he has found one. Original Bread Inc., with 31 Panera Bread stores in the region, is in final negotiations to lease the former Beauty Express space at the southeast corner of Brookside Plaza and 63rd Street. If the deal
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Prfire: NatWest will help the UK’s franchisees finance their new start-ups and offer comprehensive options when they team up with Franchise Direct the online resource for aspiring franchisees in the UK. With recent survey by Franchise Direct finding just over 70% of visitors would be happy to use some form of financing to help start
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Select Your Franchise (blog): As the National Franchise Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham is just around the corner, we explore why our enthusiasm for the UK franchising industry is continuing to bloom. Franchising contributes £12.4 billion to the UK economy and provides jobs for an estimated half a million people working in the franchise
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ImagesFood.com: Jubilant FoodWorks Limited (JFL), master franchisee of Domino’s Pizza, announced its entry in Sri Lanka with the opening of first store in Colombo. Domino’s Pizza in Sri Lanka would focus on pizza home delivery but would also offer all day dine-in option to consumers at the store. Commenting on the entry into the new
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Fibre2fashion.com: Madura Fashion & Lifestyle (Madura F&L), which markets the premium apparel brand Van Heusen in India, plans to open 50 to 60 new exclusive stores each year, with most of them being franchisee-owned. Van Heusen is currently available at 135 exclusive outlets, and the retail expansion would also include foraying into small towns and
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Al-Bawaba: The Subway restaurant chain, the world’s largest restaurant brand in terms of the number of worldwide locations, has named Abdul Rahman Almutairi from Sharq, Kuwait, as the Development Agent of the Year and Multi-Unit Franchisee of the Year at a convention in San Francisco. Abdul Rahman was recognised as the Development Agent of the
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iTWire: Harvey Norman Big Buys, an online franchisee of the well-known retail operation, launched in April this year, just two months after the decision was made to proceed with the idea. Kaine Escott, director of Harvey Norman Big Buys, told iTWire “We were on a very tight timeframe” of around seven to eight weeks to
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Franchising.net.au: Fast-growing property photography franchise Top Snap has launched six new territories across Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Victoria in the past four months and has plans for a further 12 to open in the next year. There are now 36 territories in the Top Snap network, a 125 percent increase over the past two years.
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iOL Lifestyle: For most new parents, the crippling sleep deprivation, the constant nappy changes and the overwhelming responsibility that a newborn baby brings are challenge enough, yet growing numbers of parents are using these early years to nurture not just a child, but also a fledgling business. There is even a name for the phenomenon,
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