A Franchisee Decides To Take Charge

New York Times (blog):

Last week we published a case study about William Burris, one of 10 franchisees who learned that their Australia-based franchiser, Rent Your Boxes, had gone bankrupt. Mr. Burris, who had invested more than $100,000 to purchase three territories in the Washington area, rallied by creating a new company, Rent Our Boxes, for himself and his nine fellow franchisees.

But getting the franchisees to agree on how to run the new company proved problematic, and Mr. Burris started thinking about going it alone. There seemed to be safety in numbers, especially if the jilted franchisees wanted to continue pursuing legal action against their original franchiser, but relations among the franchisees continued to go from bad to worse.

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