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Firepower - Too Big For Fraud, Extortion and Kidnapping

In 2008 in Australia we read that Firepower International associated with Stephen Moss, son of a former Macquarie bank senior executive, Bill Moss, had offered the fuel consumption reduction pill franchise by tender.

Metcash Asked to Come Clean

Australia’s Franklins Supermarkets franchisees have called on Metcash to ‘come clean’ over supplier discounts associated with $2B of purchases.

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Franchise Bill Proposes Franchising Fix

South Australian MP Tony Piccolo has tabled the proposed Franchising (South Australia) Bill 2009 in the absence of an effective response by the Federal Government to numerous franchising Inquiries. 

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Conman says "Be Your Own Boss"

A convicted con man of bogus business opportunities confesses to what words make small business owner wannabees positively croon. For budding entrepreneurs out there, “be your own boss,” “work from home,” or “No Risk! Guaranteed! (aka, “a proven system”) are the hallmarks of tricksters at work.

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The Lucky Country

No one disputes that there are lucky franchisees in systems where a relationship with a reputable franchisor is repairable when a conflict arises.

Increased Australian Franchise Disputes and Collapses Likely

Troubling Times
A day of reckoning for Australian franchising?
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Why Some Franchisors Fail

Here is a list of the reasons that franchisors fail. Some of the following ingredients for franchisor failure will seem to be duplications in some situations and not in others.

Midas Australia Company Stores Closing

SYDNEY, Australia (Blue MauMau) - It is estimated that more than half of the Midas Australia chain will begin closing this Friday; while in administration.

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Fraud In Perspectives Expertise Exploited

Bernie Madoff is providing us with gallows humor relief from the continuing saga of crooked franchise schemes and how easily the investing public is taken in by slick and fraudulent franchise salespeo