Livemint: Depending on whom you ask, this tiny company is either the next big thing in automobiles, or a maker of glorified golf carts. What’s indisputable is that as the whole automotive world seems to be racing suddenly toward the age of electricity, the Reva Electric Car Co. is in the lead, ahead of better-known […]
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PR Newswire: In 1989, amid citizen rebellions in Eastern Europe and China, Fazoli’s started its own Italian Revolution in Lexington, Ky. by serving affordable pasta meals to the hungry masses. The revolution quickly spread to other cities. In honor of the chain’s 20th anniversary, participating Fazoli’s restaurants are rolling back to $2.99 the price of
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Franchising.com: Newmarket International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced Red Lion Hotels Corporation has implemented MeetingBroker as its lead distribution platform and standardized on Delphi for sales and catering management. Red Lion has made investments over the past few years to focus on aggressive sales growth. In
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Boston Globe: Avis Budget Group and lodging firms gained market value while the restaurant sector slipped, according to a third-quarter study that examined the performance of franchise companies. The study is from the Rosenberg International Center of Franchising at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics. The center maintains a Franchise
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QSR Web: Iceland will lose its three McDonald’s locations this week due in part to the country’s devalued currency, according to a story in The Globe and Mail. Iceland’s krona has lost nearly 70 percent of its value against the euro over the last year and a half, driving up the franchisee’s costs for imported
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PR Web: SalesPartners Worldwide, an innovative sales and personal growth training company, has been recognized as one of the “50 Top Franchises for Minorities” according to the National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI). This is the third year the organization has compiled such a lis SalesPartners Worldwide was launched 2005 and provides business development solutions to
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Franchising.net.au: Griffith University’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Franchising Excellence has won funding to explore whether or not franchising is more sustainable than independent business. The Australian Research Council (ARC) announced nearly $300,000 for the linkage project, ‘Survival of the Fittest: The performance of franchised versus independent small business during economic uncertainty and recovery’. Industry Partners, the
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Franchise Key: Edible Arrangements, a franchise offering hand-sculpted, fresh fruit arrangements, announced recently that it has signed a master franchisee agreement with Kemal and Emre Aydin. According to the information provided the brothers plan to develop 15 locations throughout Turkey with the first location due to open in Istanbul in 2010. “We are excited to
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The Star: Coffee Houses were today due to open their latest branch on the Wheatley Hall Retail Park in Doncaster. It will be run by Doncaster businessman Steve Patania, who spotted the vacant unit on the retail park earlier this year and, believing the shopping parade was well in need of what he describes as
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Patrick Matthews has an interesting look at work-at-home dads. Working out of a home office can feel pretty solitary. With the kids at school and the wife out teaching, it’s just me, my computer and the dogs. So I take every opportunity I can to get out of the office. I’m not complaining. On the
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