NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Blue MauMau) - The ex-director of the Federal Trade Commission's franchise program, Steve Toporoff, credited a major change in the new franchise rule solely to the efforts of the American Association of Franchisees and Dealers.

ATLANTA (Blue MauMau) - Mr. Fred Schwartz, president of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, sat down with Blue MauMau for a chat about franchising.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) — Matthew Shay, Chief Executive Officer of the International Franchise Association, sits down for an exclusive interview with Blue MauMau to discuss issues impacting franchise owners.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) — Here is the second and final part of an exclusive interview in which Matthew Shay, chief executive officer of the International Franchise Association, sits down with Blue MauMau to discuss issues impacting franchise owners.

Robert Jay Lifton, MD has identified a specific set of steps that are used in thought reform.

CANTON, Mass. (Blue MauMau) - In an email from the DD Independent Franchise Owners association to its members, President Mark Dubinsky presented their Comments to 2008 Franchise Agreement and Other Business Issues analyzing significant issues.

PIERRE, SD (Blue MauMau) - South Dakota's governor, Mike Rounds,  signed on March 17 a franchise law that the International Franchise Association calls, "the best regulatory scheme in the

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) - On March 10, U.S. Attorney Steven J. Murphy, Eastern District of Michigan, announced that the government was continuing its investigation of a massive fraud loan program, one involving one of the Small Business Administration's top 10 lenders, Business Loans Express LLC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) – After many years of various franchise leaders trying to persuade the Bureau to carry out a franchise survey, the U.S. Census Bureau has begun to ask whether business enterprises are part of franchised networks or not for its 2007 survey.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) – A survey for the International Franchise Association concludes that franchises have outpaced the economy from 2001 to 2005 as a whole in terms of the rate of growth of jobs, payroll and output. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC undertook the major survey(pdf, 180 pgs) on behalf of the IFA for the second time in a row, following the first for 2001.