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...The company blamed the slowdown primarily on the drop in demand at its restaurants in the Middle East as well as those in predominantly Muslim countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia....
...However, the miss was greater within the division covering the more than 80 markets internationally where McDonald’s has licensed its franchising rights....
...Company plans to raise royalty fees for new franchise restaurants in the US and Canada could bring further discontent....
...The group hired advisers Houlihan Lokey this year to look at potential options for the business, according to a person familiar with the matter, who said it could attract interest from a specialist franchising...
...That is franchising, not individuality. john.gapper@ft.com...
...After becoming the market leader, partly through franchising, Jollibee gobbled up other brands, such as the Greenwich Pizza chain, Red Ribbon bakeshop and the Burger King franchise in the Philippines, as...
...They began increasing prices, which “destroyed the overall value message”, says Richard Adams, former director of franchising for the western US, who has since sold his restaurants and now consults for other...
...“They are both focusing on franchising, which is a more profitable model,” says Jeffrey Towson, a business professor at Peking University....
...This entity received royalty payments for know-how and branding from restaurants in Europe and Russia....
...is affiliated with a federation of unions holding more than $250bn in assets including 0.2 per cent of McDonald's, wrote a letter to the company in March expressing concern about the idea of an master franchising...
...“[It’s a] situation where they can find a large private equity or other franchising company in those regions and effectively put a lot of capital responsibility on to those guys [with] sub-franchising rights...
...The commission’s case against McDonald’s focuses on the payment of royalties from franchisees operating restaurants in Europe and Russia to a company called McDonald’s Europe Franchising in Luxembourg....
...The Now on Tap feature automatically suggests things to do from inside an app: users who are in a chat app discussing a restaurant with a friend, for instance, could bring up a box to reserve a table by...
...Dancoisne-Martineau is the doyen of St Helena’s diplomatic corps (the only member, actually) and the guardian of its Napoleonic heritage....
...His business partner, a former police constable, bought the Horton family out and expanded the chain through franchising. By 1991, the chain had 500 Canadian stores....
...Of course when the global economy is slow, the company that invented the globalisation of restaurants is going to feel it....
...One Ukrainian restaurant ranks as the chain’s 2nd in the world – two more are in the top 20 of more than 33,500 restaurants....
...taking the opposite tack, emphasising franchising in China)....
...It hasn’t been an easy ride for the US-based fast food restaurant, which will open its doors to Bosnians on Wednesday....
...he warned that large foreign franchise owners may be put off if Vietnam’s trade and industry ministry pursues a plan to introduce complex implementing guidelines for Vietnam’s otherwise straightforward franchising...
...But Britvic has been exploring how it can enter new markets using licensing and franchising agreements as well as joint ventures....
...Franchising can be a sound formula for certain multi-site operations, as long as it is policed effectively: it unleashes entrepreneurial spirits within a universal, branded system....
...At the moment, Prada says, she is in serious, purist mood and is considering not even having a bookshop or restaurant in the centre....
...Among these suggestions were changing its financial reporting to highlight the attractive characteristics of the company’s real estate and franchising operations, beginning an active re-franchising programme...
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