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PopCap Games Launches Bejeweled® HD For IPad® - TheStreet.com (press release) -

PopCap Games Launches Bejeweled® HD For IPad® TheStreet.com (press release) By Business Wire 05/17/12 - 01:00 AM EDT PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, today announced the launch of Bejeweled ® HD for iPad ® . This premium, native adaptation of PopCap's blockbuster franchise delivers eye-popping HD graphics ... and more »

RetroFitness Celebrates Past Years' Success and Focuses on Bright Future at ... - MarketWatch (press release) -

RetroFitness Celebrates Past Years' Success and Focuses on Bright Future at ... MarketWatch (press release) To further position the franchisee's for success, company executives spoke at a series of business seminars that lasted throughout the course of the conference, educating franchisees on how to drive the RetroFitness culture and enhance business ... and more »

FranNet Releases Franchise Success Rate Statistics - SYS-CON Media (press release) -

FranNet Releases Franchise Success Rate Statistics SYS-CON Media (press release) LOUISVILLE, KY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- FranNet, a national network of franchise consultants that helps aspiring entrepreneurs achieve franchise ownership, has released a detailed survey of the success and failure rates of franchise businesses. and more »

Turning an everyday need into a franchise - Globe and Mail -

Globe and Mail

Turning an everyday need into a franchise Globe and Mail Have you ever thought about taking your business to the next level, but weren't sure how? Why not consider replicating your business success by franchising it? As Dawn Engelbrecht points out in this article from the New Zealand Herald, ... and more »

Small Business: After school franchise success - New Zealand Herald -

Small Business: After school franchise success New Zealand Herald There were a handful of unhappy franchisees already and so I and a couple of other franchisees decided that we needed to make a change. On July 4, 2006 myself and my business partner Bev, who was also an existing franchisee, took over the international ... and more »

Franchising is favoured as exciting business model for SMEs in Oman - Oman Daily Observer -

Oman Daily Observer

Franchising is favoured as exciting business model for SMEs in Oman Oman Daily Observer MUSCAT ? Franchising as a Viable Business was the central theme of a panel discussion organised by the Muscat American Business Council (MABC) and McDonald's Oman at the Sultan Qaboos University. In attendance were a number of students from the SQU ... and more »

7-Eleven Pioneers Innovative Idea in the Fight against Illegal Underage Sales - SYS-CON Media (press release) -

7-Eleven Pioneers Innovative Idea in the Fight against Illegal Underage Sales SYS-CON Media (press release) By Business Wire 7-Eleven, Inc. is taking a new and aggressive approach to enhance its social and corporate responsibility of illegal underage sales of age-restricted products. This month the company launches a new technology in each of its 26 ... and more »

Chem-Dry, Nation's Best Carpet Cleaner, Welcomes Two New Franchise Owners - SYS-CON Media (press release) -

Chem-Dry, Nation's Best Carpet Cleaner, Welcomes Two New Franchise Owners SYS-CON Media (press release) I hadn't even bought a franchise yet," said Fight, still amazed. "When Bill called, I quit looking at everything else." Parkinson has owned a title insurance company serving western Michigan for 13 years, but recently decided he wanted another business ... and more »

New AAHOA Chair on What's Next for Franchising - Blue MauMau -

Blue MauMau

New AAHOA Chair on What's Next for Franchising Blue MauMau Right now, franchisees are the losers. That's because franchisees build the business assets and then it is easily taken by the franchisor. BMM: The IFA and the California Retailers Association argue that franchisees just want to create more regulation ...

ActiveRx Selects WebPT to Support Nationwide Franchise Rollout; WebPT Vital to ... - SYS-CON Media (press release) -

ActiveRx Selects WebPT to Support Nationwide Franchise Rollout; WebPT Vital to ... SYS-CON Media (press release) By Business Wire WebPT, a developer of Web-based solutions for Physical Therapists, has teamed with ActiveRx to support their nationwide rollout. ActiveRx provides a proactive, wellness-oriented health care model centered on strength, time and care for ... and more »

Small Business: After school franchise success - Dawn Engelbrecht, on her franchise story for her nationwide after school care business, sKids. My first experience in franchising was when I still lived in South Africa and did accounts for a chain of franchised restaurants. It...

RetroFitness Celebrates Past Years' Success and Focuses on Bright Future at Fourth Annual National Conference - COLTS NECK, N.J. -- In early-May, more than 150 RetroFitness franchise owners, vendor partners, and company corporate executives joined together at The Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. to ...

VoteIt Changes the Way People Make Decisions with Launch of New Social Platform - Today marked the official launch of VoteIt , the first and only social platform that enables discussion and consensus-building through real-time interaction from an

InterWorks CEO wins Tulsa small business award - A smiling and surprised Behfar Jahanshahi, president and CEO of technology and consulting firm InterWorks Inc., accepted an award Monday as the 2012 Small Business Person of the Year.

Franchise Consulting Firm Identifies Mobile Businesses as Top Growth Trend in Franchising - Mark Siebert, CEO of iFranchise Group , a leading franchise consulting firm based in the Chicago area, has seen an uptick in the number of their clients wh

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Fresh Coat Painters expands services into Knoxville and its surrounding Tennessee communities - Merle and Marian Ottenberg have opened their Fresh Coat Painters franchise to home and business owners in and around Knox County, Tenn. ?We saw this as an opportunity to work together for ourselves while employing good people, promoting good business practices, and providing good services at affordable prices,? Marian said.Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 Fresh Coat Painters has opened its ...

Innovation in House Painting? That's Right - Brian Scudamore is creating 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a national franchise that promises to paint your whole house in a day. Some industries seem impervious to innovation. Take house painting. If your painters will work on cloudy days and don't miss that bit around the doorbell, what more can you expect? How about your whole house painted in a day? That's the promise of 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a Vancouver ...

New Fresh Coat Painters Franchise Brings Services to Leominster and its Massachusetts Neighbors - Mark Benoit is turning his decades of experience as a painter and carpenter into a new business opportunity as he and his wife, Lori, launch their Fresh Coat Painters franchise to serve North Central, Mass. ?There is always a need for painting services, so it does come down to the trust factor. People want to know who?s in their homes,? Mark said. ?With Fresh Coat, we can help provide ...

Dade Schools Adopting New Business Models - Bring a ?business sense? to the running of Miami-Dade?s public schools is the key to success. That?s according to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho who said their latest innovative ideas involve franchising, listen to the consumer and creating a for-profit business model for the school system.