Are you unknowingly operating a franchise system? If you are licensing others to use your trademarks for a fee, the answer could be yes. Under federal or even state law, a commercial relationship between two parties could be a franchise — even if neither of the parties intended to create one.
Category: Regulatory Compliance
Franchising As A Growth Strategy
Describes the use of franchising as a method for growing an existing business, and the key considerations as to whether a particular business model is “franchisable.”
Forward Franchising 