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Both personal service like auto repair or fitness centers and business to business services like janitorial, accounting, print, etc.

Mind the Really Big Gap at Victoria Station

Prokill paints a gap in the floor with rats coming out
Victoria Station, London underground complex. Photo/Prokill

LONDON — A small British pest control franchisor has been startling London commuters this week with a painting of human-sized rodents climbing out of a gaping hole from hell.

Blackstreet Buys Alphagraphics

This auditorily gifted bird has heard that Blackstreet Capital Management LLC has bought out the franchisor of quick printing shops, Alphagraphics, Inc.

Hell At James Home Services

The James Master Lies website is probably the most worked franchise brand warning website coming out of Australia. This article is straight from there, with permission and including its source, and delivers an insight to a far better education applicable to all franchisees and prospective franchisees than is otherwise available in Australia.

Taxi Franchise Rolls onto Streets of L.A.

1-800 TAXICAB
photo/1-800-TAXICAB

WEST COVINA, Calif. — Franchising loves 1-800 names. After all, it's listed in the phone book first and the contact information is built into the name.

Planet Beach Lawsuit against Attorneys Dismissed, Again

From the Planet Beach website
photo/myplanetbeachfranchise.com

NEW ORLEANS – Last week a district judge dismissed, for a second time, a lawsuit brought by Planet Beach against its former attorneys, Lane Fisher and Jeffrey Zucker of Fisher & Zucker.

Printeca Is A Reputed Print Facility In Business For Over 30 Years

Printeca has highly boosted online printing with the introduction of some new technologies.

Franchise Growth Stymied by Tightening of SBA Loans

Heidi Ganahl, founder of Boulder-based Camp Bow Wow, says although her dog care service franchise is adding locations across the country growth has been stunted by tight financing.

Franchisor Hit Hard for Pretending Employees Are Franchisees

Pius Awuah, an employee of Coverall who was told that if he paid a franchise fee he was a franchisee
Coverall told Pius Awuah he was a franchisee but courts ruled he was an employee.

BOSTON – Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court smacked Coverall janitorial franchise system with a huge bill for labeling its employees as franchisees.

Kingship, Oligarchy or Republic at Alphagraphics?

I am hearing strange stirrings at quick-print chain Alphagraphics. The U.K. holding company of Salt Lake City-based Alphagraphics is beyond bankruptcy.