Since then, the business has grown so quickly, and he has opened many branches and made it into a franchise business.
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Since opening its franchise business in 2012 the pool care franchise has made acquisitions in four states and has found acquisition to be a highly efficient and beneficial route to garnering clients in unexplored markets.
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The most exciting company listed is Jeronimo Martins, a well-capitalized food distributor that has a great business franchise in Poland.
So whether we learn from Marvel, Apple or Hostess, the Jets have their opportunity for a great business franchise turnaround.
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For generations, big firms have owned the franchise on global business.
We may have had only one owner for several generations, but the Journal has undergone enormous change: from a one-section newspaper narrowly focused on markets for subscribers in New York to today's global business franchise across print, online and other digital media platforms.
Clearly, if there were an opportunity, we would like to expand our business and franchise in Malaysia and in Singapore.
Mr. MacDermott's business is a franchise called Pillar To Post, which he co-owns with his 67-year-old wife, Dana.
In some instances, Microsoft is acknowledging the threat to its business-software franchise.
As expected, an impressive array of prominent sports franchise owners, distinguished baseball executives, titans of business, and even former ball players are expected to aggressively pursue a franchise whose origins date back to the late nineteenth century and well before Brooklyn was even a borough of New York City.
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At the time Swisher was just a bathroom cleaning business, and its franchise model wasn't working.
Sales declined by 16% to 2.2 billion yuan, amid a weak performance by its franchise stores and e-commerce business.
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Conventional wisdom posited: Build up your service business and protect the franchise.
Each franchise is a multibillion-dollar business, a decades-old entertainment brand that brings in huge revenue for everyone involved: movie studios, snack food manufacturers, toy makers and more.
The business model, intellectual properties, and the franchise potential of Angry Birds give Rovio the most exciting prospects I have seen in the entertainment business since Marvel in 2003.
We expect continued strong performance in its pharma business supported by its nutritional franchise.
Beyond its audit franchise, Andersen must shore up its consulting business, which has also become controversial.
The global financial firm conceived a highly disruptive new business model for a core banking franchise.
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Consider working with a franchise consultant to determine which franchise will meet your needs, passions and business goals.
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Franchise advantages include skipping the writing of the business plan, no product development or branding, and an operations manual.
However, as a franchise owner your initial focus is managing the business and hiring and leading others to contribute to the success.
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Apple builds up its Internet content business, aside from the music franchise.
They included increased competition for consumer dollars, the fragmentation of an industry run by independent small-business owners (which I expect franchise executives can understand), inconsistency in the brand experience and outdated systems.
Following the growth of micro-credit, the micro-franchise approach has gained traction by providing a proven business model to micro-entrepreneurs that may lack an entrepreneurial opportunity.
Will Wright is one of the most accomplished video game developers in the business, maker of the blockbuster Sims franchise, and founder of development company Maxis (now part of gaming giant Electronic Arts).
Deutsche Post, for example, was fined by the European Commission in 2001 for abusing its monopoly by allowing its global parcels business to receive big subsidies from its letters franchise.
Traditional military contractors like General Dynamics and BAE Systems tend to dabble in the truck business rather than regarding it as a core franchise, so they can afford to walk away if terms look too onerous.
The local shoe store, the lawn mowing business, the photographer, the single store Subway franchise owner and so forth.
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