FRANCHISE News, Jan 27, 2012

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Ask the Expert: Becoming a franchise Insider Media Your franchisees need to know how you want them to run their businesses and a training program will show them. The structure of this program and who runs it are up to you. • Franchisee investment costs. Your franchisees will pay an initial fee, ... See all stories on this topic »

Brinker International Reports Increases in Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 EPS ... MarketWatch (press release) The company generates royalty revenue and advertising fees based on franchiseesales, where applicable. (2) System-wide comparable restaurant sales are derived from sales generated by company-owned Chili's and Maggiano's restaurants in addition to the ... See all stories on this topic »

Imvescor Restaurant Group reports 2011 year end results Canada NewsWire (press release) The Company is in particular deploying management efforts to negotiate with authorized suppliers with the objective of reducing the cost at which food is sold to franchisees. This effort and associated investments are expected to result in the ... See all stories on this topic »

ColorTyme kicks off 2012 National Convention with new vision, lower fees APRO RTO Headquarters “Additionally, the growth plan allows for much better cash flow and operatingcosts. A motivated and successful multi-unit operator can get their royalty fees down to 2 percent, which is not only low for our rent-to-own segment but for any franchised ... See all stories on this topic » APRO RTO Headquarters

Massage franchise jumps at stronger deal Financial Post “I went through the steps to franchise it and here we are. We now have six locations in Nova Scotia and two in Ontario.” The franchise fee is $39000 plus a 5% royalty. “Getting a location up and running costs between $100000 and $200000 depending on ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Post

Cosi, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter Sales MarketWatch (press release) Franchise fees and royalty revenues for the fourth quarter contributed $859000 compared to $723000 in the 2010 fourth quarter. The increase in royalties in the 2011 fourth quarter over last year's quarter was due primarily to higher sales as well as ... See all stories on this topic »

Andy's shiny new start with Autosheen The Franchise Magazine Initially, Andy planned to build on his experience and open a shop, but he found the costs involved were simply unaffordable. Accordingly, he widened his search and began to look for a business opportunity that would better suit his budget as well as ... See all stories on this topic » The Franchise Magazine

Quiznos Gives Up Control To Stave Off Bankruptcy NPR Andre Bonyadian owns nine Quiznos franchises in and around Los Angeles. As one of his employees wraps a large roast beef sandwich to go, Bonyadian identifies a chief problem: He's not going to make much profit on this sandwich. See all stories on this topic »

BAB, Inc. Reports Profit for Year-ended 11/30/11 MarketWatch (press release) CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS Fiscal Year Ended 2011 2010 % Change -------------- ------------- ----------- REVENUES Royalty fees fromfranchised stores 1760240 1737361 1.3 % Franchise and area development feerevenue 281200 105000 ... See all stories on this topic »

Choice Hotels International Celebrates 5000th choiceADVANTAGE Installation Sacramento Bee The lower total cost of ownership for choiceADVANTAGE continues to be an attractive element of the overall value proposition that Choice Hotels offers to hotel franchiseesas a lodging franchisor. In a related milestone, the company also recently ... See all stories on this topic »

Even greater things in store for friends The Franchise Magazine Franchise owners are required to be in a shop front within three years of joining us but we do not make it mandatory from day one, as we recognise that the startup costs are higher. The Holborn shop joins Debbie and Vince's London Bridge shop, ... See all stories on this topic » The Franchise Magazine

Council approves budget cut; Pate set to veto Lovely County Citizen Charles Ragsdell, CAPC chair, read the itemized list of expenses CAPC expects to incur, and the total cost of running the Aud would be $94735, and he felt certain the city budget could not handle this additional burden. He also pointed out that, ... See all stories on this topic »

Stayclean on the look-out for hands on, hard workers Franchising “Any franchisee has to start with one and prove themselves, and then, based on merit we can discuss multiple territories at a state level. We're not flooding the market.” One territory will cost franchisees $80000 plus GST, and for that they will get ... See all stories on this topic » Franchising

Graphic novelist, professor Jeremy Short Q&A on TEDxOU conference NewsOK.com (blog) But I think costs must come down and that's starting to happen. Apple's big announcement about education last week shows that lots of folks are interested in more affordable options. The good news is that there has already been a lot of movement in ... See all stories on this topic » NewsOK.com (blog)

Kevin Haskin: Ownership brings out the Jim Bob in Morris Topeka Capital Journal Morris now owns sports franchises. Two of them. Minor-league outfits in Bloomington, Ill. Only this undertaking is not minor on Morris' part. He prefers to think the Bloomington Edge, his football franchise, could be part of an uprising by the Indoor ... See all stories on this topic »

BPL Twenty20 kicks off February 9 Financial Express Bangladesh "We expect that the sponsors will provide the funds to meet the estimated cost of each team," the spokesman of a team said. He also said the participating teams have given bank guarantees worth about US$ 6.0 million - the amount being $1.0 million for ... See all stories on this topic »

3 Stocks With 52 Week Highs That Keep Pushing Higher Seeking Alpha ... to buy on the pullbacks, thereby lowering your cost basis. Now I want to take a more in depth look at these three companies. Company Overview: McDonald's generates revenue through company-owned restaurants, franchise royalties, and licensing pacts. See all stories on this topic »

Janus Capital Group's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha The small increase in marketing and advertising expense is largely due to international marketing and other seasonal expenses. Finally, our distribution cost declined 14% due to a decrease in assets subject to such distribution fees. So on Slide 11, ... See all stories on this topic »

Union First Market Bankshares Reports Fourth Quarter Results MarketWatch (press release) Increases in current year other operating expenses included valuation adjustments and higher costs to maintain the Company's portfolio of OREO of $1.6 million, higherfranchises taxes of $1.2 million levied to include all of the former FMB branches, ... See all stories on this topic »

The great brokerage shake-out Financial News In the current climate, if you're not one of the top five, or even top three brokers, you're going to struggle given cost bases and overall commission pools. A number of banks that had ambitions to build equities franchisesfrom scratch are now ... See all stories on this topic » Financial News

McDonald's' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha As a percentage of sales, margins declined 30 basis points to 18.7% for the quarter and flipped 70 basis points for the full year, as positive comparable sales were more than offset by higher cost, most significantly commodities, across all segments. See all stories on this topic »

The Rural Shops Alliance welcomes Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd. commercial ... Talking Retail The Rural Shops Alliance has welcomed the 10-year commercial agreement betweenRoyal Mail and Post Office Ltd. for the continued provision of mail services through Post Office outlets, after the two have become totally separate companies. See all stories on this topic »

Bartering an alternative for businesses Naples Daily News Using the Internet to reach global markets, McDowell also offers his training program to businesses via webinars sessions that cost $2295. Another web barter guru, Sarasota-based IBE Barter Director Mary J. Unger, has been serving the barter community ... See all stories on this topic »

It started with a third pound of premium beef Inquirer.net Over four branches are now under supervision of their franchisees. BBB has 10 branches rolled out in Metro Manila. And another is underway at Waltermart Sucat. Among its branches include SM North Edsa Annex, SM Cubao, SM Fairview Main Building, ... See all stories on this topic » Inquirer.net

Amgen's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha This was primarily driven by the Puerto Rico excise tax and cost of sales for which we received a corresponding foreign tax credit against the US federal income taxes and the US health care reform excise fee. Excluding Puerto Rico excise taxes, cost of ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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