AllAfrica.com: Bourbon Coffee, Rwanda’s chain Coffee Store has launched franchise plans, saying it is set to grant, to five independent operators, the right to distribute its products, techniques, and trademarks. Emmanuel Murekezi, Bourbon Coffee’s Operations Manager said the coffee retail conglomerate is weighing up options of franchising Bourbon’s trademark to other private companies in DR […]
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Rapid City Journal: The latest addition to Rapid City’s direct-sales industry has nothing to do with “parties” – Tupperware, candle, purse or otherwise. Tad Darling of Box Elder has started a home-based business in “meatings,” as in meat – brats and steaks, as well as all the equipment needed to grill it and wash it
On Monday, we asked readers if they knew the percentage of small businesses that have a website. You may be surprised with the answer. 22 percent said 17% had websites, 15 percent said 25% had a web presence, 22 percent guessed 38% had sites, 13 percent said 44% and finally, the largest percentage 28% selected
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Central Valley Business Times: The Farmer Boys Restaurant chain is expanding northward in the Central Valley with the opening later this month of a restaurant in Riverbank in Stanislaus County. It is the 67th location for the franchise and the first in the Modesto area. The other Valley restaurants are in Tulare, Bakersfield (2), Hanford
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The Press-Enterprise: Three years ago, Kristi Necochea went shopping for a doll for her daughter, Madelyn, then 4 years old. “All I saw were Bratz dolls that didn’t seem appropriate,” she recalled. Disappointed but inspired, she started a company that makes the kind of dolls she couldn’t find in the stores. Today, Friends Forever Girls,
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Business7: Businesses will get an extra boost in 2010 with the launch of a new series of free workshops designed to help them grow and prosper. For a full list of events including exact locations and times please call Business Gateway on 0845 609 6611 or log on to www.bgateway.com/events Edinburgh & Lothian Managing Cashflow
CSP Daily News: Seattle’s Best Coffee said that it has entered the $1.4 billion ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee category in the United States with a new line of Seattle’s Best Coffee-branded iced latte coffee drinks, which leverage the brand’s most popular coffee drinks from its cafes. Through the North American Coffee Partnership (NACP), a joint venture
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Chain Leader: One of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchens‘ top five franchisees, John Brodersen, has returned to his roots in Chicago as owner of the same Popeyes restaurant where he began his career more than two decades ago. Although many features of this and five other existing restaurants have been revamped and the fryers Brodersen learned on
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TurnTo23.com: Ben & Jerry’s headquarters proudly recognizes Larry Roland and Kirsten Potegian, owners of the Ben & Jerry’s shop at East Hills Mall 3000 Mall View Rd., with the Rookie Of The Year. The global recognition was recently announced at the company’s “Global Franchise Community Gathering.” The conference, held Jan. 6 through 10, took place
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Nation’s Restaurant News: The fast-casual Daphne’s Greek Cafe chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, but the company’s founder pledged Thursday the reorganization would be short. George Katakalidis, who founded the 69-unit chain in 1991 and is now president and chief executive of parent Fili Enterprises Inc., said the company breached a loan
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