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People, personalities and success stories related to starting and running a business.

Television Coverage Of Refund Franchise Carnage

The story of Wayne Ormond and Refund Homes as covered by Australian television program A Current Affair comes with serious allegations.

2011 Departures

Here are notable deaths in 2011 within the franchise industry.

Shannon Liss-Riordan: Petite Sledgehammer

BOSTON — An attorney in a boutique Boston law firm, Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, has gone after giants and won.

Neal Aronson: The Private Equity Investor

The years 2005-2008 were notable for a wave of private equity acquisitions. The 2010-2011 period will go down as the second wave.

Rod Sims: The Regulator

CANBERRA, Australia — Whether it's Canada's new franchise law that kicked in at the beginning of 2011 in New Brunswick on its way to Manitoba, or America's new Business Opportu

Chandrakant Patel: Person of the Year

ATLANTA — 2011 saw major inroads from franchisees who used their associations to collectively obtain better transparency and even to manage national marketing and supply chains to ensure t

Darren Rovell: The Reporter

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Seldom do television's mainstream media report on franchising in its truest form.

Happy Holidays And Have A Prosperous New Year!

Soon it will be 2012.  January will be the fifth anniversary where my family was misrepresented and destroyed financially.  We are still going through the aftermath of rogue franc

Franchising’s Very Own Herman Cain

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, former Godfather Pizza CEO
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. photo/gage skidmore

It's been a meteoric rise. Former franchisor CEO Herman Cain, whose father was a janitor and mother a domestic worker, is in a statistical tie with fellow presidential candidate Mitt Romney.