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Do you want to buy a franchise outside the United States? You are lucky because franchising is increasingly a global affair. Consider this statistics: every year we rank the top 500 franchises in our franchise 500 list – and this year almost 45% of those brands outside the US were! That does not mean that […]
Rochelle Hendricks is moving quickly. In 2022, a decade after opening her own insurance broker, she decided to try her hand at the facade companies-the purchase of an ideal pit franchise in Ontario, Canada, quickly follow in less than two months. In the next two years she opened three more locations and has now surpassed […]
People often ask me the same question: “How do I know if franchising is the right decision for me?” As a leader of the International Franchise Association (IFA) I know that some things are true: franchising is an incredibly powerful business model. It has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and millions […]
Susan Valverde is the brand president of Sylvan Learning, a tutoring and test preparation center franchise. She describes her career as “a series of happy but very unexpected turns.” Valverde was born in Noord -Mexico, emigrated as a child to the US in the early 1980s and learned entrepreneurship from her parents, who built a […]
