Voxy: Pie Face today entered into a memorandum of understanding with New Zealand partners to roll out at least 62 stores over the next 10 years across the North and South Island. The local partners Julian Field and Jared Palmer have a combined 17 years of QSR experience, Julian having been a multi-unit owner with […]
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Phoenix Business Journal: Phoenix-based real estate brokerage firm HomeSmart International has entered the Colorado market with the launch of an 800-agent franchise in Denver, company representatives said in a statement Monday. The new Denver operation is the 31st franchise that HomeSmart has launched across six states this year since it began a nationwide franchising crusade.
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National Post: Liquid Nutrition announced today a major partnership with Canadian businesswoman, entrepreneur, author and Dragon’s Den TV personality Arlene Dickinson. The partnership agreement provides Ms. Dickinson with exclusivity in the Alberta marketplace and plans are in development to open multiple stores starting with the first location in Calgary. The agreement also provides Ms. Dickinson
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Financial Post: When faced with the prospect of expanding a franchise into a new territory, many franchisors employ the model of master franchising. As opposed to direct franchising (where one franchisee is granted the right to open one business) or area development (where a franchisee is granted the right to open several businesses across a
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SmartCompany.com.au: A critical, but largely unexplored indicator of franchise performance and network health is franchisee tenure – the length of time someone operates as a franchisee. According to the Franchising Australia Survey*, franchisees stay with a system for an average of seven years. This figure was last reported in 2010, and remained unchanged from the
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Hospitality Technology: A Wendy’s franchisee has seen a value-rich payback, since replacing its old back office software with RTIconnect. In addition to greater accuracy, more information, and more convenience it is all at a fraction of the price. Owner of Allen Properties LLC, Mike Allen switched to RTIconnect by Restaurant Technology, Inc. (RTI) as the
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Rapid City Journal: A new fitness center in Sioux Falls is targeting an older market. The programs by Minnesota-based Welcyon (WELL’-see-on) are designed for people over 50, and emphasize personalized strength training, balance, aerobics and flexibility. The company’s strength training equipment, made in Finland, uses a card reader to track individual progress and set resistance.
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Reuters:` Canada plans to create a new class of visa that it hopes will attract high-tech and other entrepreneurs to immigrate to the country to start new companies, officials said on Tuesday. It has put a moratorium on issuing its existing entrepreneur visa, which only required an immigrant to hire one person for one year,
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Business 2 Community shares the stories of some entrepreneurial kids who are making money today. Comcate Ben Casnocha is another one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world and his vision has earned him millions. At the incredibly young age of 12-years-old, Ben Casnocha founded Comcate and created an innovative business model that proved immensely
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Sacramento Bee: Budding teen entrepreneurs from around the country are counting on America’s vote to be crowned champion of the third annual Elevator Pitch Challenge, presented by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) with the support of E*TRADE Bank. As part of NFTE’s 25th Anniversary year celebration and its 2012 National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, teen
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