New Zealand Herald: The largest Gilmours food-wholesaling operation in New Zealand has been sold by Foodstuffs to private owner-operators. Foodstuffs said Gilmours Mt Roskill had been bought by Auckland businesspeople Scott Brown and Jackie Grant, who own a string of highly successful Auckland cafes, including the Takapuna Beach Cafe and Rosehip in Parnell. Foodstuffs acquired […]
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Bringing his vast experience of developing franchise networks to bear on a new technology-driven concept, MediLipo and Laserlift, Bill Owen provides his insights to FDS Southern consultants Gordon Patterson and Gary Rigby The Franchise Magazine: Gordon Patterson: What is your background in franchising? Bill Owen: I was involved in founding the Snack-in-the-Box (SITB) brand and
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AusFoodNews.com.au: Recent announcements by Federal Small Business Minister, Craig Emerson, regarding unconscionable conduct and franchising laws fail small businesses and franchisees, according to Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Competition and Consumer Law Expert at the University of New South Wales. Mr Zumbo claims that the new announcements are just spin and offer no effective action on
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Franchising.com: Wyndham Vacation Ownership, a member of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies, today announced it has entered into an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Towers on the Grove, LLC. Under this agreement, Wyndham Vacation Ownership will become the exclusive sales and marketing agent for approximately 137 condominium- style units at Towers on the
Digital Signage Today: Wendy’s franchisee FourCrown recently received an FSTEC Technology Innovation Award for its complete Digital Restaurant, featuring indoor and outdoor digital menu boards from WAND Corp. FourCrowns Digital Restaurant is comprised of WAND indoor and outdoor Digital Menu Boards and WAND NextGen POS software. The award was presented to FourCrown last month in
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Marketwire: Sylvan Learning, Inc., North America’s most recognized provider of supplemental education, announced today it has signed an agreement with Diamond Financial Services for a preferred franchise financing program. Available only to Sylvan Learning franchisees, the program offers reduced fees and access to capital. Diamond Financial Services will offer Sylvan franchisees a special 25 percent
Franchising.com: Business has been ‘sizzling’ at Mama Fu’s since Murphy Adams Restaurant Group purchased the Pan-Asian concept from Raving Brands nearly two years ago. Complete with a new prototype, retooled menu and an innovative “flex-casual” service model, Mama Fu’s is on the fast-track to renewed franchise growth. With same-store sales increases of eight percent at
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Western Star: Corner Brook will have a Boston Pizza says the corporation’s director of business development. It has been at least a year and a half the company has been trying to find a franchisee to open a sports bar and restaurant in the city. Representatives will be back here again next week to meet
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WDIV Detroit: The verdicts came in Friday in the first of several lawsuits brought by investors in the Wireless Toyz cellular phone store chain. Eight of the nine charges brought against Wireless Toyz and founder Joe Barbat were thrown out. The one count that stuck was silent fraud. Barbat founded Wireless Toyz and has made
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Cincinnati.com: Chili’s Bar & Grill Restaurant plans to open a new location here in October. Chili’s has filed plans to build a 5,700-square-foot restaurant at Houston Road and Spiral Boulevard next to Chick-fil-A, says Kevin Wall, director of zoning services at the Boone County Commission. A typical Chili’s location seats about 200 people and has
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