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...Claure also has plenty of experience in the telecoms industry, having founded mobile phone distributor Brightstar in the late 1990s, before selling the business to Japan’s SoftBank in 2014 for $1.5bn....
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...But the question we raised is does franchising success ultimately rely on two of America’s most acute pathologies: excessive leverage and exploiting cheap labour?...
...Those already involved in his project include Simon Fuller, his agent and the creator of American Idol, and Miami-based billionaire Marcelo Claure, who founded wireless distributor Brightstar Corp....
...He has backing from his agent and American Idol creator Simon Fuller and Miami-based billionaire Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless distributor Brightstar Corp....
...private equity firm and Accor shareholder, had been pressing the group to go faster in its embrace of an asset-lite model, in which hoteliers sell off properties and concentrate on their management and franchising...
...As Andy Yeung, analyst at Oppenheimer & Co, explained, while NQ Mobile have inked similar partnership in recent months with Telefonica, Brightstar, TCC, AWireless and Phones4U, Monday’s deal is “much more...
...Finally, it has involved a great deal of partnership – deals in the last 18 months have included Telefonica, Brightstar, TCC, AWireless and Phones4U....
...The company acknowledges that if its new investments are not getting results within a year to 18 months, it will look to joint ventures, re-franchising of bottlers or even disposals....
...Miner African Eagle Resources climbed 17.8 per cent to 6¾p after BrightStar Resources, its Australia-based joint venture partner, announced high-grade gold results at its Miyabi gold project in Tanzania....
...Barcelona’s bid partner is Marcelo Claure, a Miami-based Bolivian and joint founder of Brightstar, the world’s biggest wireless telecom distribution and supply chain management group....
...But he also cautioned that the “defeat” in Texas did not mean the end of state-wide franchising....
...London & Boston Investments climbed 46 per cent to 7.12p, as it announced plans to float its private property search subsidiary PSG (Franchising) at £15 to £18m....
...The group has been selling hotels for several months as it moves to a business model based on hotel management and franchising rather than asset ownership....
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