Franchising.net.au: Real estate franchise Ray White (Real Estate) Pty Ltd has been pulled up by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for its treatment of a franchisee. The real estate franchisor told franchisee Nick Edwards it was ending the franchise agreement without giving a reason just two years into a five year agreement for his […]
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Baltimore Sun: Fast-food places such as McDonald’s are busted fairly frequently for making kids work overtime without adequate pay, too long on school days or to perform prohibited tasks. In today’s paper Mary Gail Hare writes of a Phoenix McDonald’s dinged for more than $30,000 in penalty and back wages. A Pittsburgh McDonald’s franchisee had
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BusinessWorld Online: The firm behind local chicken chain Max’s Restaurant expects faster sales growth this year due to continued expansion and a projected uptick in the economy, the restaurant’s top executive said late last week. Max’s, Inc. is eyeing 12% to 16% growth this year, better than the 7% recorded in 2009, company president Robert
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Dailyrecord.com: Fuddruckers recently was in the news because the national restaurant franchisor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Someone not in the know might think the chain’s Parsippany and Roxbury locations were in danger of closing. Not so fast. Despite down economic times, plenty of businesses — many with franchises — not only stay afloat,
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Reuters: DP Poland Plc, the Polish master franchisee for U.S-based Domino’s Pizza Inc, plans to list on London’s junior market, and roll out at least 27 stores in Warsaw by end-2012, underpinning the pizza delivery chain’s growth in foreign markets. DP Poland, which is planning a wider national rollout, said it would consider sub-franchising later
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National Post: The Bancorp Bank (“Bancorpâ€), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc., today announced that BrightStar®, the first franchising company in the United States to specialize in both medical and non-medical care and healthcare staffing, has become the first franchisor approved for a new franchisee lending program created by Bancorp and Franchise America
