Big box retailer Best Buy is closing 50 large format stores and opening 100 smaller ones to respond to changing consumer tastes. Best Buy’s experience is an excellent lesson for franchisors in demonstrating how systems must evolve to survive.
Month: March 2012
Nevada Franchise Business Network: Spring 2012 Meeting
Join us at the next meeting of the Nevada Franchise Business Network for an interactive discussion featuring leaders from locally-based companies that have successfully grown into national franchise systems. The topic of the meeting is “Lessons Learned in Franchising” and will feature guest speakers Debbie Shwetz, CEO of Nothing Bundt Cakes, Fred Hassen, CEO of Sit Means Sit Franchise, Inc., and Alfredo Rivera, President of Sit Means Sit Franchise, Inc.
FranCamp 2012: Franchising Goes Social
FranCamp 2012 is scheduled to occur in Atlanta, Georgia on May 4th, 2012. If you are not familiar with FranCamp, it is a social media “un-conference” for the franchise industry.
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