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...Franchising has been the market entry tool of choice for other convenience stores like 7-Eleven, which licenses its brand to Seven System Vietnam....
...“They are buying a distribution system, but what are they going to add to it that wasn’t there before?”, she asks. “It’s hard to figure out where the scale addition is.”...
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...It embedded fast food into American diets as the US industrial farm system developed to make $1 cheeseburgers feasible....
...had been managing the nuclear sites for 14 years and in documents filed to the court alleged that the NDA did not follow its own procedures when the new contract was awarded and that its point scoring system...
...He claims most companies do not have a disaster recovery plan that can start a system again from scratch....
...The move will raise concerns of a repeat of the West Coast main line rail franchising debacle two years ago....
...A recent study by the International Centre for Social Franchising highlighted poor information sharing on many good existing healthcare ideas....
...Google set out to improve YouTube’s systems for dealing with illegal programming, organise the content and expand the site internationally....
...A weak franchising tradition and lack of reliable logistics and standards have kept competitors out, though insiders say KFC and other big companies are about to make a move....
...PepsiCo recently bought its bottlers to gain more control of its distribution system, but some analysts have suggested the capital investment has not been worth the trouble....
...For those looking to put their brand directly into an overseas market, franchising may be an option. But that inevitably involves ceding some control over the brand and, self-evidently, sharing profit....
...Sony, for its part, is keen to lower emissions associated with its sprawling studio lot in Culver City, California....
...Three years ago, Alan Wurtzel, president of NBC Universal media and research development, strode on stage at the Culver City studio lot near where Gone With The Wind was filmed, braced for the scepticism...
...Also involved in the bid team is director of Credit Lyonnaise Securities, Christopher Yates, who is also a non executive of Cardiff financial services company Culver Holdings....
...In Wendy’s, we thought the value of its Tim Hortons restaurant franchise was worth the entire stock price two years ago, so we were getting the Wendy’s brand restaurant and franchising business for free...
...The laboratory in Culver City has led the company’s attempts to find new ways of delivering content....
...The FCC rules will also ban local governments from forcing new competitors to build new systems more quickly than incumbent carriers and to count certain costs required of new carriers to go towards the...
...Sally Beauty operates 2,465 stores in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK and Germany, as well as 825 Beauty Systems Group outlets....
...SBC is spending $4bn on a similar system that would reach 18m homes within three years....
...ABI Research, the market research firm, predicts that as telecoms operators push hard to roll out IP-based TV services worldwide, they will face major roadblocks in the shape of licensing and franchising...
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