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Critics, including NDP leader Howard Hampton and Les Stewart, who speaks for a small minority of disgruntled franchisees, are wrong to claim it won’t help clean up the mess in the franchise
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their sewing machines.
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out of business. The CertaPro model is based on minimum sales / minimum franchise fees and those minimum franchise fees can be the cause of a franchisee's failure. CertaPro markets the franchise
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before buying in
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Think buying a franchise means you get the benefits of owning a business without the risk of business failure? Think again. Without proper due diligence, franchisees can find
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there are more people coming right out of university who, upon finding a right job market, decide to open a franchise.
Other potential franchise owners are the Baby Boomers, who might have been downsized from
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to sell franchises or operate franchised businesses in Alberta;
(d) respecting by-laws that may be made by a designated body, including by-laws to ensure fair dealing between franchisors and franchisees
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in the yogurt business. Sherwood claims TCBY failed to respond to a changing market with a wider product line and wouldn't lower the price of the yogurt it sells to its franchisees in the face of cheaper
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, which trades through brand chains Italtile and CTM, also threatened to terminate franchisees that did not sell products at the set prices, making the franchisor price mandatory
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of the franchise industry's favourite pitches to potential franchisees is that the failure rate in franchising is much lower than small business in general.
The argument goes something like
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or franchisee fails. One of the most difficult characteristics to assess about franchising is the rate of business failure. The Department of Commerce consistently reports a failure rate within five
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