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11 unusual facts about franchising


Bluebell Hill transmitting station

Between its opening in 1974 and 31 December 1981 the transmitter broadcast ITV London, being switched on 1 January 1982 to carry signals from the new ITV franchise TVS (Television South), until superseded on 1 January 1993 by ITV Meridian for ITV in the south east.

British Airways franchise destinations

In addition to the comprehensive list of destinations offered by British Airways itself, many more towns and cities can be reached through BA's franchise and subsidiary operations.

Franchising

An example of event franchising is the World Economic Forum, also known as the Davos forum, which has regional event franchisees in China, Latin America, etc.

Herb Washington

He added his second local McDonald's franchise seven months later, and in 1986 he opened a McDonald's in suburban Pittsford, New York.

Hoarders

A crew of professional cleaners (usually a local franchise of the series' major corporate sponsor) performed actual cleanups.

InSpectres

The player characters have just started a franchise in the supernatural investigation and elimination company InSpectres.

Khobar

Traditionally, Khobar has also been a city of shopkeepers and merchants, and the city today has many modern malls and boulevards with shops run by international franchises and restaurants.

LeRoc

However, when James Cronin chose to trademark the word "Ceroc", and to run the Ceroc club as a franchised business, the members of the LeRoc club decided not to run theirs for the potential income, preferring to concentrate on perfecting the dance.

Liban Hussein

When it was announced that al-Qaeda was believed to have ties to the Somali money service which Hussein contracted, his brother was arrested in Boston and the cleaning franchise revoked Hussein's license.

Robert L. Brock

As the Chairman of Brock Hotel Corporation, the first and at the time largest franchisee of Holiday Inns, he founded Showbiz Pizza Place in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas.

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.


85C Bakery Cafe

Following the success of the two stores, a third store was opened in Goun Yi, in Taichung City, which marked the beginning of the franchising name 85℃ in November 2004.

AmBev

As the largest PepsiCo bottler outside United States, it sells and distributes PepsiCo products in Brazil and other Latin American countries, includes Pepsi, Lipton Ice Tea and Gatorade by agreement of franchising.

Aziz Akhannouch

He is married to Salwa Idrissi, a businesswoman who owns a company active in malls and holds the Moroccan franchises for brands such as Gap, Zara and Galeries Lafayette.

Boston City Campus and Business College

In 1997 Boston City Campus opened a new division called Boston Business College and, after opening 11 colleges in Gauteng, started franchising the concept nationwide.

CfSi

Culver's Franchising System, Inc., a fast-casual restaurant chain, headquartered in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.

Corporación Trebol Gas C.A.

Trebol was founded in 1998 and is a chain of gas stations, each operated by a franchisee.

Hala Moddelmog

During her leadership of Church's Chicken, more than 19 percent of Church's Chicken franchises have become owned by female franchisees.

Jeremy Sorzano

Sorzano and Webb were both running Soccer Shots programs in Charlotte and Harrisburg when they decided to franchise, with the help of Messiah teammate Justin Bredeman, who had franchising experience with Auntie Anne’s Pretzels.

José Carlos Semenzato

The conglomerate, which has been restructured as a holding named FranHolding has other franchising chains, such as the Instituto Embelleze, in the area of professional education in cosmetics, NumberOne Idiomas, in the area of idioms teaching, and Ricardo Almeida, a clothing fashion school.

Magic Solutions

MicroAge, of Mahwah, New Jersey, was a retail computer franchise in the 1980s that achieved a considerable level of success.

Mercantile Capital Corporation

Founded by Christopher Hurn and Geoff Longstaff in late 2002, MCC has been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, SmartMoney, BusinessWeek, Inc., and Franchising World.

Railway company

Public service obligations or franchising is then used to determine the right to operate the line for a limited time period, with multiple private companies bidding for the privilege to operate.

Richard and Maurice McDonald

The McDonald brothers began franchising their successful restaurant chain in 1953, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona with Neil Fox.

Rwanda–United States relations

American business interests have been small; currently, private U.S. investment is limited to the tea industry, franchising (FedEx, Coca-Cola, Western Union, and MoneyGram) and small holdings in service and manufacturing concerns.

Sealy Corporation

Due to lack of funding for manufacturing, Sealy expanded using a licensing-expansion similar to Coca-Cola.

Ted Ballard

He became manager of the Clarence public house in Hastings for a few years before becoming a franchising officer for Green Shield Stamps during the 1970s.

The Cheesecake Factory

On January 25, 2011, the company expanded into the Middle East in a partnership with Kuwaiti retail franchising company M.H. Alshaya Co..

Tint World

American entrepreneur Charles J. Bonfiglio is the chief executive officer for Tint World, LLC and began franchising in 2006.

U-Haul

The company was founded by Leonard Shoen (L. S. "Sam" Shoen) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and expanded through franchising with gas stations.

Výtopna

From the very beginning the restaurant was conceived as a franchise project, in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia - regions of the Czech Republic.

White Tower Hamburgers

Tombrock Corporation branched out into franchising Burger Kings and Golden Skillet Chicken.

Zahi Khouri

He helped establish the Palestinian Development and Investment Company (PADICO), the largest Palestinian investment company, as well as the Palestinian National Beverage Company, which manufactures and markets Coca-Cola products under official franchise in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.