July 2011

In.Gredients Wants To Be The First Packaging And Waste-Free Grocery Store

Fast Company: In an industry littered with excess packaging, it sounds like an impossible goal: in.gredients, a startup out of Austin, Texas, wants to create the first zero-waste, packaging-free grocery store in the U.S.. Can this ever work? When it launches later this year, in.gredients won’t be in competition with your local Safeway; it won’t […]

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Trends In Multi-Unit Franchising

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Select Your Franchise: It seems to be a truism in franchising, that what the US industry is doing today, weâ€™ll be doing in a year or soâ€™s time. One trend which is accelerating there, is multi-unit single brand franchise owners, taking on additional brands. In this blog, Iâ€™m going to touch on a number of

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7-ElevenÂ® Chain Raises $40 Million In Global Campaign For Japan Disaster Relief

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Sacramento Bee: The 7-Eleven, Inc. global convenience retailing organization raised more than $40 million in donations to assist victims devastated by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The international fund-raising efforts included canister contributions from 7-ElevenÂ® customers, as well as donations from the National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees, individual franchisees

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A Note About Training

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Lawn & Landscape: When you decide to franchise your business and you get your first franchisee, itâ€™s important that you go through the proper steps to ensure everyone is trained correctly. Be sure to set up training programs for your employees and your franchisee. If you donâ€™t, you could end up with a problem on

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Get The Basics On Becoming A Price Attack Franchisee

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Franchising.net.au: Price Attack is one of Australia’s largest professional hair care retailer and salon group, with over 6,000 professional hair products in-store. NUMBER OF OUTLETS IN AUSTRALIA? 120. COST OF TURN-KEY FRANCHISE? Approximately $450,000. FRANCHISE TERM? Initially five years. MARKETING LEVY? Three Continue reading…

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U-Swirl Franchisees Open Four Cafes In June!

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PR Newswire: U-Swirl, Inc., parent to U-SWIRL International, Inc., the owner and franchisor of U-SWIRL Frozen YogurtÂ® cafes, today announced that franchisees have opened a total of four new cafes in the month of June. This brings the total operating cafes in the system to 16. The cafes that opened in June are located in

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Dryer Vent Wizard Presents Dryer Cleaning Louisville Franchisee Top Sales Increase Runner Up Award

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Emailwire: Greg Longe, CEO of Dryer Vent Wizard (DVW), announced the awarding of the DVW Top Sales % Increase Runner Up Award to franchisee, Keith Oâ€™Loane at the national conference in Novi, Michigan. The award recognizes Oâ€™Loane for his outstanding work in producing high sales increases out of nearly 60 Dryer Vent Wizard franchisees nationwide.

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