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.
Category: The Business of Franchising
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.
Businesses to Speaker Boehner: Pass Business Activity Tax Simplification Act
Today, more than 150 businesses nationwide wrote a letter to Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi urging them to enact the Business Activity Tax Simplification Act this year. The businesses, which include many franchise companies, want to put an end to unfair, confusing and costly state corporate income taxation.
Reports From International Franchise Association Convention Cite Optimism For 2012
If you, like me, did not attend the 2012 IFA Convention, you may be interested in reading a couple of stories from those who did.
Coalition for Interstate Tax Fairness & Job Growth Launches
The Coalition for Interstate Tax Fairness & Job Growth, a group representing the interests of small and large businesses nationwide, re-launched today with a new name, website and strategy to combat unfair state and local corporate income taxation and support the Business Activity and Tax Simplification Act (BATSA).
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