December 28, 2011

The Orchid, An Eco-Friendly Hotel Chain, Announces Franchise Opportunities

fnbnews.com: Kamat Hotels (India) Ltd (KHIL) announces franchise opportunities for The Orchid, Asia’s first certified eco-friendly five-star hotel. The company presently offers ecotel hotels in Mumbai and Pune, and plans to penetrate its reach in all major cities nationally using the franchise route. It expects to add 10 new properties to its portfolio by 2014. […]

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Subway Plans To Open 2500 Stores In 2012

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QSRweb.com: Subway Restaurants opened more than 2,100 locations in 2011, adding a total of 21,000 jobs globally. With more than 35,800 franchised locations, Subway this year became the world’s largest restaurant chain in terms of number of locations, and was just named the top ranked restaurant brand in Entrepreneur magazine’s annual Franchise 500 listings (No.

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Little CaesarsÂ® Pizza Announces “Crazy” Offer for Its Popular Crazy BreadÂ®

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NEWS.GNOM.ES: Little CaesarsÂ® Pizza is celebrating the Little Caesars Pizza BowlÂ® with a special offer for football fans and pizza lovers across the country. To share in the excitement of the college bowl game, Little Caesars today announced a â€œFree Crazy BreadÂ®â€ promotion. Today, Dec. 27 through Thursday, Dec. 29, Little Caesars customers can purchase

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â€Ž Empire ATM Offers Franchise Opportunities

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â€ŽATM marketplace.com: Executives at the Empire ATM Group announced Friday that the company is now offering franchise opportunities to entrepreneurs on the East Coast. Empire offers ATM sales and services on the East Coast with offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The company services and handles repairs for ATMs in small retailers and

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Today in Entrepreneurial History: December 28

History

1612 â€“ Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. 1895 â€“ The LumiÃ¨re brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. 1912 â€“ The first municipally owned streetcars take

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â€Ž Jollibee Adding Highlands Coffee, Hard Rock CafÃ© And Pho 24 Restos To Its Holdings

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GMA News: Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is in the process of acquiring a 50 percent stake in Vietnam-based SuperFoods Group, which owns Highlands Coffee and operates Highlands Coffee Shops, Pho 24 restaurants, as well as Hard Rock CafÃ©â€™ franchised stores in Macau, Hong Kong and Vietnam. JFC said in its disclosure to the Philippine Stock

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Original Hooters In Florida Gets A Facelift

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Boston.com: The original Hooters was a ramshackle, dove-gray, two-story building perched on a stretch of road between Tampa and Clearwater Beach. Similar to the chainâ€™s slogan, it was unrefined, tacky, yet delightful â€” and it launched a wildly popular restaurant chain that now boasts 487 locations around the world. For 28 years, itâ€™s been a

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Pizza Hut Weaves The Brand Into The Indian Consumer Psyche

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Best Media Info: In order to celebrate its 15 years in India, Pizza Hut has launched a campaign that went on-air over the last weekend. The TVC comprises two ad films and revisits the history of the brand in the country, with consumers sharing their experience in terms of the contrast of their first pizza

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Women’s Progress In Business Slowing?

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There has been a lot of talk about the successes women have seen in business, but are those trends really stalling? The Australian recently mentioned a comment by Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, about women in the boardroom. “Women made tremendous gains in the 70s, 80s and 90s,” said Ms Whitman. “But the

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The Life Of A Toy Inventor

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My Fox 9: Tony Morley is one of only about 300 full-time toy inventors in the United States, so there’s a good chance that one of his projects — beginning as a crude sketch — is now sitting on a store shelf. “I try to come up with toy concepts that big toy companies would

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