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...While the brand has expanded in Asia, mostly through franchising, Dean & DeLuca is down to just two US stores in New York, including its SoHo flagship at the corner of Prince Street and Broadway, and two...
...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...
...Mr Ackman has experience investing in quick service restaurant chains, including McDonald’s and Burger King....
...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....
...In the long run, though, franchising means less sensitivity to sales growth (and declines)....
...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...
...Think of Marks and Spencer’s ill-judged expansion into the US in the 1980s, with its purchases of the Brooks Brothers clothing chain and Kings Super Markets. Both deals eventually had to be reversed....
...That summer, thousands gathered at the Woodstock music festival to listen to Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and the Grateful Dead....
...During his 20s, he was too busy expanding Jani-King to acquire an aircraft of his own....
...Last week, Tesco lost out to Wal-Mart in the bid to woo Indian retailer Bharti Enterprises as a franchising partner....
...The announcement appears to take Sea Containers a step closer to giving up the franchise for its only UK rail route, unless it can persuade the Department for Transport, which controls rail franchising,...
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