Canton Repository: Mary Ann Donuts, Stark County’s oldest doughnut store chain, has launched a local franchise program that President Pat Welden anticipates expanding nationally. To date, two franchise shops have opened here. In North Canton at the Marc’s Plaza, owners Tim and Becky Rodgers say the success of their traditional-style shop is due to the […]
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Tasley Eastern Shore News: Checkers is making a comeback on South Salisbury Boulevard, and this time with a new franchisee. The largest double drive-thru restaurant chain in the country with the trademark checkerboard and chrome facade debuted on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the spring of 2009 in front of the South Salisbury Plaza shopping center
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Fort Worth Star Telegram: Heidi McGregor sells medical equipment, and her husband, Jim, owns an ambulance dealership in Fort Worth. On the road extensively, they were looking for another business to develop. They settled on a pizza franchise, buying the rights to the first two Toppers Pizza franchise restaurants in Texas. This summer, the McGregors,
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Buffalo News: The Angola Travel Plaza’s food court on the New York State Thruway has undergone a makeover, with four new restaurants that opened on Friday. Franchisee Kevin DiPirro owns and operates all four locations: Moe’s Southwest Grill, Cinnabon, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, and Carvel. The four businesses, representing a capital investment of about $1 million,
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Westfair Online: After a nearly 20-year run in the hotel industry that took Jeff Angus from Seattle to Atlantic City and nearly a dozen locations in between, he was ready to settle down and open his own business. Now, 12 years after reaching that goal, Angus, a New Canaan resident, unexpectedly finds himself at the
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky. 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns. 1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people. 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 2009 – General Motors
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San Francisco Chronicle: Connecticut fitness professional and Fitness Revolution franchisee Tyler English finalized plans to author Men’s Health Bodybuilder’s Bible, the magazine announced earlier this month. The book is intended chiefly for those with an interest in competitive bodybuilding, both at an amateur and a professional level. However, it is also written with the fitness
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Virtual-Strategy Magazine: Athena North America, LLC, franchisors of Athena Learning Centers of Princeton, New Jersey, launched franchising operations and will offer the industry’s most innovative solutions for students K-12. As a franchise investment opportunity, Athena Learning Centers partnered with best-in-class providers of education products and services to create the Athena Total Solutions℠package to use
Pizza Marketplace.com: Hungry Howie’s held its annual national convention from May 15-17 to recognize the best company stores and franchisees. The Franchisee of the Year Award went to Don Copus. Copus also earned the Highest Percent of Sales Increase Award for his store in River Rouge, Mich. For excellence in marketing and operations, Andrew Newman
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PR Web: Low-investment franchise brands may cost less than some of the big names in franchising but they have a significant presence in the market, according to a new report out today from Franchise Business Review. “When people hear the word ‘franchise,’ it’s often the big food brands—McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, Papa John’s—that come to mind.
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