Mr Wilson was certainly a pioneer in franchising hotels, and set up a training school to ensure quality.
That would be what I wanted to see to invest again in franchising!
Since the firm began franchising in 1996, it's seen considerable growth every year.
By handing over distribution rights to its independent bottlers, the Atlanta company would lower its own expenses in favor of franchising fees.
And thus began one of the most remarkable franchising runs in recent restaurant history.
They should play to their strengths, he says, franchising services in competition with one another.
When Stelios and Kelly sign a major franchising deal in Asia later this year, they will retain the right to centrally sell and then pipe ads throughout EasyEverything's worldwide chain.
Fewer train operating companies, but also in the re-franchising process perhaps some sort of over-arching contract that all train operating companies subscribe to, to give passengers back the network benefits that were lost in the privatisation process.
Cendant's Super 8 budget entry knows that it, too, needs local know-how in China and figures its franchising model is the way to get it.
Franchising was still rare in Japan, but Oshima was a quick study.
As they get more familiar with the hotel industry, more owners are opting for franchising, a system in which they pay for a chain's name, reservation network and marketing, but manage and control the hotels themselves.
Auchan, which now makes more than half of its sales outside its home market in France - a dozen new shops are opened each year - recently announced a franchising deal that will rebrand 13 Max Hypermarkets in India as Auchan.
To keep its edge, DFJ is franchising its venture model with affiliates in Virginia, Alaska, Utah, southern California, Colorado, Oregon and Texas -- and two more are on the way.
HFS, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has in recent years snapped up a variety of franchising businesses, among them Avis car-rentals, Super 8 motels, Days Inn and Ramada hotels, and Century 21 and Coldwell Banker property agencies.
To keep its edge, DFJ is franchising its venture model, with affiliates in Virginia, Alaska, Utah, southern California, Colorado, Oregon and Texas and two more on the way.
They'll hear from Richard Brown, the chairman of Eurostar - who concluded in a government review, published this week, that rail franchising is 'not broken'.
In 2000, now operating three salons herself Phillips turned to franchising to continue to serve the women of Texas, selling Dallas and Austin right away.
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Mr. Hammons came early to the motel franchising business, purchasing a block of 10 Holiday Inn franchises in 1958.
If you are thinking of investing in a franchise ask yourself this: Why are there franchises available if franchising is such a good opportunity?
In a year, Hikari managed to quadruple the unit count to 2, 000 by franchising.
Mr Wilson reckoned that as well as shaking up the hotel industry he had invented franchising, but Ray Kroc of McDonald's and Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken put in claims (and Charles the Great may have started it around 800 when he granted land rights to his supporters).
Franchising, an approach central to the U.S. hotel industry and Cendant's way in China as well (see " The Bed Business"), is for another day, in Liang's view.
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