October 2009

Gloria Jean’s Wins International Award

ImagesFood.com: Australian owned global specialty coffee brand, Gloria Jean’s Coffees, has been awarded the Excellence in International Franchising Award at the Australian MYOB Franchising Awards in Perth. Gloria Jean’s Coffees has driven a successful strategy that has seen the business grow to 917 coffee houses worldwide and 37 master franchise agreements signed across 36 countries

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Extreme Pizza Partners With Ewordofmouth On Full System Emarketing Launch

Franchising.com: Extreme PizzaR, the leading purveyor of innovative pizzas, monster subs and salads, today announced a full-system launch with leading enterprise eMarketing solution provider, eWORDofMOUTHT. This new partnership allows Extreme Pizza to harness eWORDofMOUTH’s powerful, on-demand technology to cost effectively deploy both global and localized online referral and rewards campaigns across the entire chain. “Extreme

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Coupon Sparks Lawsuit Between Long John Silver’s, Captain D’s

Nation’s Restaurant News: A Long John Silver’s franchisee has filed a lawsuit against quick-service seafood competitor Captain D’s and its parent company, Sagittarius Restaurants, accusing them of deceptive trade practices. According to court papers filed this week in the Circuit Court for Knox County, Tenn., Captain D’s allegedly ran advertisements in July that offered to

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PMD Furniture Direct(TM) Launches Web Site For Franchisees

Reuters: PMD Furniture Direct(TM) (PMD) today announced the launch of the company’s new franchise development Web site – www.pmdfranchise.com. The site will serve as the online hub for general information and franchise news. It will also provide specific insight from current owners to assist those interested in becoming franchise owners as PMD adds new owner-operators

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Healthy Fast Food Announces Grand Opening Of U-SWIRL(R)-Reno

Reuters: U-SWIRL International, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Healthy Fast Food, Inc., the owner and franchisor of U-SWIRL® Frozen Yogurt stores, today announced that U-SWIRL franchisee, Galena Frozen Yogurt Company, hosted the grand opening of its first of three planned U-SWIRL self-serve frozen yogurt stores this past weekend in Reno, Nevada. “Working with the

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