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The Winner's Column - January 2012

As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in a volatile economy, FUSR continues to bring you good news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, striking deals with investors, innovating, and continuing to grow, whether domestically or overseas.

Eddy Goldberg
6,401 Reads 189 Shares

Having It Both Ways: Rodger Head Operates As A Franchisor and Franchisee

In 1969, when high school senior Rodger Head took a job at a Burger King, he had no idea he was entering the business he would stick with for his entire career

Debbie Selinsky
6,155 Reads 138 Shares

The Winner's Column - December 2011

Eddy Goldberg
6,411 Reads 429 Shares

Growing Up Franchising: Life Is Great--Pass It Along!

In 1969, when high school senior Rodger Head took a job at a Burger King, he had no idea he was entering the business he would stick with for his entire career.

Debbie Selinsky
10,279 Reads 1 Shares

The Winner's Column - October 2011

As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in a changing economy, FUSR continues to bring you good news each month.

Eddy Goldberg
5,545 Reads 179 Shares

The Winner's Circle, July 2011

As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in a changing economy, FUSR continues to bring you good news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, striking deals with investors, innovating, and continuing to grow, whether domestically or overseas.

Eddy Goldberg
6,947 Reads 445 Shares

The Winner's Column

As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in this challenging economy, FUSR will continue to bring you good news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, striking deals with investors, and continuing to grow despite the economy - maybe even because of it. And, as the U.S. struggles through its "jobless recovery," growth-oriented franchisors continue to look overseas for expansion opportunities.

Eddy Goldberg
9,838 Reads 93 Shares

Franchise Update Media Group Announces Winners of First-Ever All-Pro Sales Awards

Franchise Update Media Group (FUMG), the leading industry resource for franchise development, announces the winners of the first-ever All-Pro Sales Awards. The competition was held as part of the Franchise Leadership & Development Conference in Atlanta at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, Sept. 22-24, 2010. Two teams participated in the live, on-stage unscripted competition for the All-Pro Sales Team award, and each team's Best Performance awards. The winners were determined by a panel of judges and the audience.

PRESS RELEASE
2,795 Reads 15 Shares

Unit Management: Gulf Coast Multi-Unit Operator Talks Hard Numbers

Greg Hamer, Sr., worked in the oilfield service industry for two decades before dipping his toe into franchising. He knows about hard work and about managing assets. Today, he is the largest Taco Bell franchisee in the state of Louisiana. Hamer has operated B&G Food Enterprises out of Morgan City, La., since opening that first Taco Bell unit in 1982. In the 1990's, the company added KFC and Pizza Hut units to the portfolio and most recently, Teriyaki Experience.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
4,663 Reads 21 Shares

The Winner's Column

Eddy Goldberg
10,172 Reads 93 Shares

The Winner's Column

Eddy Goldberg
11,314 Reads 93 Shares

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Driving Performance to Increase Leads, Boost Sales And Grow Your Brand Revealed at 2010 Franchise Leadership and Development Conference

Franchise Update Media Group (FUMG) the leading industry resource for franchise development, today announced that the 2010 Franchise Leadership and Development Conference theme of "Driving Performance" will reveal strategies to increase leads, boost sales and grow your brand. The conference will be held September 22 - 24, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton Buckhead, Atlanta.

Press Release
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What's It Gonna Be?: Finding the Development Strategy that Suits Your Brand

Despite the surging growth in franchisors using multi-unit development strategies over the past 20 years--especially the past decade--this approach is not always a sure bet for successful franchise growth, and certainly not for every franchisor. For example, the multi-unit model may make a great development tool for an established retail-oriented brand seeking heavy market penetration in a given territory, but it may not be right for a newer service-based brand testing a smaller market

Kerry Pipes
4,902 Reads 21 Shares

Challenge the Pros

"Explain your development strategy as it relates to recruiting single-unit versus multi-unit franchisees. Do you look for both? Why or why not?" During the past five years, most franchisors have changed their concept of the ideal franchise candidate. Today larger franchisors are focused more exclusively on recruiting multi-unit/multi-brand players, rather than the single-unit operators most systems were built on. As an established, nearly 40-year-old brand, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen markets franchising opportunities toward the top-tier multi-unit/multi-brand category franchisees, while simultaneously considering single-unit candidates. We currently have more than 1,900 locations in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and 27 foreign countries.

Franchise Update
6,464 Reads

Single - or Multi-Unit Development: Which Works for You?

Despite the surging growth in franchisors using multi-unit development strategies over the past 20 years -- especially the past decade -- this approach is not always a sure bet for successful franchise growth, and certainly not for every franchisor. For example, the multi-unit model may make a great development tool for an established retail-oriented brand seeking heavy market penetration in a given territory, but it may not be right for a newer service-based brand testing a smaller market.

Kerry Pipes
3,705 Reads 15 Shares

Gunning for Growth: Young Multi-Unit Franchisee is Expansion-Minded

In the mid-1990s, when the stock market was on fire and Darrell Lamb spent most of his days on the phone in an unending quest for new investors, he had a chance to invest in an Express Oil Change franchise. Lamb had some great advisers to rely on. His uncle was president of the company and his dad, an Alabama optometrist with a keen interest in growing ventures, was an investor.

John Carroll
8,656 Reads 1 Shares

Turnaround Player: Transforming Low Performers Into Franchise Leaders

Glen Helton's lifelong career in franchising began as a teen with his first job at a Burger King in Fayetteville, N.C. Today the Texas native is president and COO of Strategic Restaurants Acquisition Corp. (SRAC), which operates 271 Burger Kings and 17 T.G.I. Friday's across 9 states. Helton, along with SRAC's CEO, Jerry Comstock (former Bennigan's CEO), have become known for turning underperforming restaurants into profit generators. They did it for the 226 Burger Kings they acquired out of bankruptcy 5 years ago, and they also have added 45 new ones. Today they're applying their turnaround skills to the 16 T.G.I. Friday's in New York and Florida that they bought out of bankruptcy in August 2008.

Debbie Selinsky
10,741 Reads 1,189 Shares

Making A Difference

Even in tough economic times, franchisors are stepping up and giving back to causes and organizations they - and their franchisees - believe in. Many of these activities fall under the radar, displaced by news and events deemed more immediate or important. What could be more important than raising money and donating time to help those in need, especially when budgets are pinched and time is at a premium? That's why we're taking the time to recognize our contemporary heroes.

Franchise Update
3,469 Reads 1 Shares

Winner's Circle

USA Insulation, based in Eastlake, Ohio, has added four new franchise locations to serve Chicago, Omaha, Central New Jersey, and Portland, Maine. Interest in insulation has grown in recent years as homeowners hit by the economic downturn and rising energy costs seek to reduce their monthly gas and electric bills - good news for this franchisor. "Aside from the typical reasons for insulating a home, many of our new customers have wanted to take advantage of the energy tax credit," says company President Patrick Pitrone. "Adding home insulation now can get you a 30 percent federal energy tax credit of up to $1,500."

Franchise Update
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Purpose Driven: John Hotchkiss, 33, Has Been In Franchising For More Than Two Decades

John Hotchkiss was born in Pontiac, Mich., and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. But he likes to say he "was born" into franchising. "I started working in our stores when I was 9 years old and really enjoyed it. I learned in high school that it was a good business to own when I came home exhausted from a crazy, busy night at one of our stores and my dad was relaxing and reading a book on the back porch," he recalls. "He had 700-plus employees working hard that night making him money.

Debbie Selinsky
11,110 Reads 1,022 Shares

Family Style: Keeping Family And Business Growing Together

Greg Hamer, Sr. grew up working in his father's Louisiana oilfield service business. But in 1982, he began to put time and money into growing a franchise business that has since grown to 50 locations.

John Carroll
6,072 Reads 3 Shares

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Louisiana's Opt-Out Franchising Provision In Judge's Hands

Local governments and video providers should find out by Nov. 3 if a Louisiana state court judge will accept language in the state's new franchising law that allows incumbent operators to opt out of current local contracts.

Multichannel News
3,042 Reads 14 Shares

High-Flying Franchisee

David Ostrowe is a man on a mission--or 20. First, he says he's really working hard to be a great dad. "It's important to me to be the 'Jolly Green Giant' to my daughter, so I'm really working at it," he says.

Debbie Selinsky
12,019 Reads 153 Shares

Multiunit rookies make up in attitude what they lack in experience

Conventional wisdom would say the best franchise operators are individuals with past business experience - or even better, previous franchising experience. But that may not be the case any longer. A youth movement is under way in the world of multiunit franchising.

Kerry Pipes
5,918 Reads 98 Shares

Four innovative concepts continue to fuel franchising's growth

Innovation has played a progressive role in franchising since the beginning. Over the years, there have been new spins and fresh angles on all kinds of products, services, and concepts. As if there were any doubt, consider the more than 300 new franchise concepts introduced last year alone, according to franchise research firm FRANdata.