OregonLive.com: Google’s free website initiative launched this week in Oregon, offering small business owners help creating a website. The program, called Oregon Get Your Business Online, targets small business owners without an online presence. It also extends domain names, a business email account and free web hosting services for a year. The Internet giant is […]
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Kansas City Business Journal: NPC International Inc. saw revenue inch up for 2011, but its earnings took a sharp dive, dropping more than 78 percent. NPC, the largest Pizza Hut franchisee, said the culprits were $26.6 million in transaction expenses, an increase in ingredient costs, and higher general and administrative expenses. Transaction expenses are associated
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Select Your Franchise (blog): Changes in your target market or in buying trends, the deletion of old products and the introduction of new ones, and last, but not least, brand presence. These are all factors that mildly or otherwise cause shifts in the profile of your typical customers as time progresses. For franchisors that operate
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Nation’s Restaurant News: Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. recently set a goal of doubling the number of Dunkin’ Donuts units in the United States over the next 20 years. Dunkin’ Brands senior director of franchising Jeremy Vitaro is charged with leading that push. He has been with Dunkin’ Brands for nine years, and has been at
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ReporterNews.com: A company that owns three Dairy Queen restaurants in the Big Country has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but employees at two of those Dairy Queens said the restaurants would remain open. An employee at the third eatery declined to comment. Roundtable Corp. is an independently owned Dairy Queen franchisee. According to the company’s
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SmartCompany.com.au: A lot has been written about the benefits of franchisors granting (and franchisees acquiring) multiple franchise units, but how many outlets is too many for one franchisee to operate? The exact figure is hard to define, but will require a close assessment of the franchise system itself, the spread of the outlets to be
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Crain’s Detroit Business: Art Van Furniture Inc. plans to court the top furniture retailers in about 20 of Michigan’s smaller markets in a bid to have them become franchisees. The Warren-based company is looking at markets with the potential for a store to bring in annual sales of $3 million to $5 million, said CEO
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QSRweb.com: Nutritional kiosks have been deployed in the restaurant industry at somewhat of a trickling pace. Outside of a few fast casual concepts – Au Bon Pain café added them in 2003 and Uno’s recently installed them at Uno Due Go – they remain largely nonexistent. However, some in the foodservice and technology industries are
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Jakarta Post: PT Indomarco Prismatama, which controls the country’s renowned minimarket network Indomaret, plans to open 800 new stores this year, 40 percent of which are to be franchised, after partnering with local lending giants to finance the stores’ franchisees. CIMB Niaga (BNGA) was the latest in line after an agreement with Bank Mandiri (BMRI)
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Kansas City Star: Freebirds World Burrito has signed a new, local company as its first franchisee and several of the restaurants are planned for the area, including one in Mission. FB Midwest Development LLC’s agreement calls for 27 locations. It has signed a lease for the new Mission Crossing, now under construction at 61st Street
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