Franchising
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Franchising (from the French for honesty or freedom) is a method of doing business wherein a "franchisor" licenses proven methods of doing business to a "franchisee" in exchange for a recurring payment, fees and a percentage of sales or profits. Various tangibles and intangibles such as national or international advertising, training, and other support services are commonly made available by the franchisor, and may indeed be required by the franchisor, which generally requires audited books, and may subject the franchisee or the outlet to periodic and surprise spot checks. Failure of such tests typically involve non-renewal or cancellation of franchise rights.

According to Financial Times, if sales by US franchise businesses were translated into national product, they would qualify as the 7th largest economy in the world.

• ActionCOACH Business Coaching -- Worlds #1 Business Coaching Franchise Opportunity -- Business coaching franchise opportunity. 800+ business coaches in 22 countries. 16th fastest growing franchise. Entrepreneur rated #1! Small business franchise with coaching businesses for sale. Includes FAQ, site searching, newsletters and contact forms.
• Alliance Preservation - Established in 1981, Alliance Preservation has built a strong reputation based on our commitment to high standards of workmanship and professionalism. Services include surveying, damp proofing, timber treatment, structural works, under/over-pinning, lintel and wall tie replacement, sound insulation and traditional restoration works such as lime rendering and repointing. Our services are available through our nationwide chain of franchise offices and are supported by our technical facilities at our central office.
• Amerispec, Inc. -- AmeriSpec Franchise Opportunities -- If you're looking to start your own home inspection franchise, you've come to the right place! AmeriSpec offers the best home inspection franchise opportunities available in North America. With over 350 independently owned and operated businesses that conduct over 150,000 inspections annually, AmeriSpec's 17 years of experience provide us with the know-how to offer the best training, support, and tools to get your franchise off the ground fast.
• Amerivest Realty -- Real Estate Franchise, 100% Commission Based Plan - Information Technology -- Amerivest Realty Real Estate Franchise offers 100% Commission & Leading Technology Solutions with Quality & Integrity. Career Enhancement. Real estate franchise opportunity. Site includes contact form, online shopping, locations of franchises and property listings.
• Animal Adventure, Inc. - The Animal Adventure® System offers the following: Established company value; Assistance with site selection; Documented operating system; Store operations and livestock training; Advertising and promotion manual; Computerized accounting system; 5,000 item catalog; Inventory/order from database; Support by corporate staff; Themed store design; Training; Store Procedures; Exclusive Territory Rights.
• Antal International Ltd. -- Global executive search & International recruitment agency -- Antal International is a global executive recruitment organisation with over 50 offices in 20 countries. We offer clients a comprehensive range of international recruitment solutions ranging from Permanent and Contract / temporary staffing. Employment global recruitment firm franchise opportunity. Site includes job listings, contact form, resume form and news.
• ArtOpportunity.com  -- An art opportunity for success-minded entrepreneurs -- Personal Preference Inc. is offering you the Art Opportunity of a Lifetime - Earn a 20% commission on all of the art that you sell while earning passive income on all of the art that is sold in your downline - Art + Opportunity = Wealth - Don’t miss this great Sales Opportunity. Offers an opportunity for a consultant career in art.
• BEIGROUP - People Skills Training Franchise Company BEIGROUP ® Business Education International -- Offers a franchise opportunity in business training services. Includes locations, press releases and careers.
• Big Box Storage, Inc. - Looking for a new business venture? If explosive growth opportunities interest you, then the new franchise program offered by Big Box Storage Franchising, Inc. might be just for you. Big Box Storage provides self storage in San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Big Box Storage is a portable storage company that will deliver a storage unit to you, then pick up the storage pod for storing in the storage facilities in either San Diego or Las Vegas.
• Big League Barbers, Inc. - The BIG LEAGUE® system is also a great men's salon franchise opportunity! Our unique sports themed hair salon franchise is on the cutting edge of men's hair care. Men's hair salon and hair care franchise opportunity. Includes franchise form, locations and feedback form.
• BrandAmerica, Inc. - BrandAmerica, Inc. specializes in expanding leading brands into new markets. Provides American franchises in the Asian market.
• The BrickKicker - A nationwide home inspection franchise helping families achieve the "American Dream" of home ownership. Our home inspectors are trained and certified to give you a comprehensive home inspection from top to bottom and beyond. Home inspection service business opportunity. Site includes locations and franchise request form.
• Brightscape, Inc. - Provides franchise opportunity for financial investment services. Site includes locations, franchise application, brochure and news articles.
• Brooke Financial Services - Offering financial service business opportunity. Includes news, contact form, request a quote and franchise information.
• Calbarrie - Offers electrical appliance and equipment testing franchise opportunity. Includes quote form and locations.
• Cash Plus, Inc. - Check cashing business opportunity. Includes franchise request form and contact form.
• Cashouse - Offers an international real estate franchise opportunity. Includes contact form.
• Christmas Decor - The holiday season is a wonderful time of year to share with loved ones. Why worry about decorating the exterior of your home, when you can have the professionals at Christmas Decor do it for you? Commercial and residential Christmas decorating franchise. Site includes contact form, FAQ and locations.
• Color Your Carpet - Carpet dyeing and color restoration franchise opportunity. Site includes locations, news and careers.
• Comfort Keepers - At Comfort Keepers®, nothing is more important than helping people live full, independent and dignified lives within the comfort of their own homes. Comfort Keepers is dedicated to providing in-home care that enriches our clients' lives and helps them maintain the highest possible level of independent living. Offers in-home care agency for non-medical care and assistance to seniors. Site includes franchise request form and contact form.
• Commercial Union - Offers ATM franchise opportunity. Site includes contact form and brochure.
• Commercial Water and Energy - Offers water submetering franchise opportunity. Site includes franchise information request form.
• Criterium Engineers - Offering engineering related independent franchises to provide building evaluation services. Includes services, pricing, company overview, office locator and FAQ.
• Crye Leike Franchises, Inc. - Opportunity to franchise a real estate office. Information on benefits, services, resources, locations, testimonials and contact form.
• Doggy Dreams Groomobile - Doggy Dreams Groomobile operates out of a high tech van, customized to give you and your pet quality grooming. A trained groomer brings the van to the customer’s home; no more trips grooming shop. The Groomobile has hot and cold running water which comes from it’s own water tank. Mobile pet grooming franchise opportunities. Site includes news, FAQ and product catalog.
• Dwyer Group, Inc. -- Franchising - Service Franchises - Plumbing - Heating and Air Conditioning - Glass Repair - Electrical - Appliance Repair - Glass Repair -- The Dwyer Group is one of the world's largest franchise organizations. Provides several service based franchising opportunities. Site includes contact form. [Nasdaq: DWYR]
• ElderCare at Home - ElderCare at Home is South Florida's premier provider of geriatric care management and at-home assisted living services for patients and families suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dementia or other memory impairments. Offers geriatric care management, home health nursing and senior companions business opportunity. Includes FAQ, employment opportunities and contact form.
• EPP Australia Pty Ltd - Australian national buying group that offers franchise opportunities in consulting. Site includes contact form and site searching.
• ERC Franchise - Offers expense reduction franchise business opportunity for franchise consultants.
• Fastway Couriers - Offers global business opportunities in courier franchising.
• Floradream - Offers preserved flowers franchising opportunity. Site includes contact form.
• Franchise Authority Inc. - Offers a network of licensed consultants providing franchise and business opportunities.
• Global Property Inspections - Offers home and commercial property inspection franchises throughout Canada and the United States. Includes locations and free information kit.
• Global Recruiters Network, Inc. - Offers executive employee career placement and search service franchise opportunity. Site includes news, job search form and locations.
• Grandma's Loving Hands - Offers in-home senior citizen care franchise opportunities. Includes FAQ and request form.
• Grassroots - Grassroots® has a long, and established, record in the Inspection industry of offering a wide range of services in a professional manner. Grassroots® provides ongoing education, training and technical support to their inspectors as well. Residential, commercial building and environmental inspection franchise opportunity. Site includes locations and site search.
• Gulf Franchising Company - Holds master franchise rights in the Middle-East offering franchise opportunities. History, jobs and press releases provided.
• Hall of Names - Opportunity marketing surnames histories, first name histories, Scottish Clan histories, coats of arms, and related heraldic products.
• Harmony Window Fashions - Blinds and window fashions franchise opportunity. Includes application form.
• hendonhunden - Offers a dog services business franchise opportunity such as daycare, boarding, grooming, training, retail goods and travel services.
• Hollywood Tans - Manufacturer of tanning beds offers a tan salon franchise opportunity. Site includes locations, news, contact form and online ordering.
• Home Helpers - Franchise opportunity for in home short or long term care for the elderly, injured and life long challenged. Includes contact form.
• Home Instead Senior Care - Home care service provider with locations worldwide. Information on locations, services, employment, franchises, and contacts.
• Home-Alyze - Canadian franchise opportunity for home inspection business. Includes FAQ and franchise request form.
• Homewatch International - Personal services for homebound elderly and convalescing individuals. Site includes FAQ and locations.
• Humitech Franchise Corporation - Franchise opportunity in providing humidity control systems to commercial, industrial and residential businesses. Includes franchise information request form.
• In Sports Marketing, Inc - Indoor golf simulator and swing analyzer business opportunity. Site includes FAQ and information request form.
• Instant Strategist - Offers business strategy consultant opportunity. Includes online ordering, testimonials and contact form.
• InSun, Inc. - Offers an opportunity in the tanning salon business. Includes contact forms.
• Jim's Group -- One of The Worlds Largest Home Services Franchises -- Offers a variety of service style franchises. Includes testimonials and links to franchise sites.
• Kitchen Solvers - Kitchen Solvers has franchise opportunities available throughout the United States & Canada. From Custom Cabinet Refacing to New Cabinets, New Laminate or Solid Surface Countertops you choose how to build your business.
• The Landscape Company - Landscape gardening franchise located in UK.
• Las Vegas Golf & Tennis, Inc. - An international franchise company specifically organized to provide retail sales to the golf and tennis enthusiast.
• LazerBall - Combines all the action of paintball with the hi-tech thrills of lasertag.
• Leisure Systems Inc. - Converts existing privately-owned campgrounds into family oriented camp-resorts with Jellystone Park and Yogi Bear themed elements.
• Liberty Tax Franchise - Offers retail tax preparation services across North America. Includes locations, history and request form.
• Log Book Loans Ltd - Offers franchise opportunity for loans to customers based on the value of their car.
• MBS - Management accountancy franchise to provide computerised accountancy services and business consultancy to medium sized companies. Opportunities in the United Kingdom and overseas.
• Monet Telecom Consultants - Provides a telecommunications consultant franchise opportunity.
• Money Mailer, Inc. - Advertising, printing and direct mail business opportunity. Site includes franchise information and territories available.
• Mortgageforce - Offers a mortgage franchise opportunity. Includes contact form.
• Mr Locks -- locksmith franchise specialist uk -- The Mr Locks Franchise package contains everything that you need to start-up your own locksmith business, but also offers a complete marketing and business format with a registered corporate identity that we believe to be the most visual and memorable in the Industry. The franchise also markets electronic security products and you receive all stationary, marketing materials and promotional products as part of the franchise package.  Locksmith and alarm franchise opportunity. Includes FAQ and contact form.
• MYTV Group International - Offers digital multimedia franchising opportunities.
• National Property Inspections, Inc. - Home inspections.
• NBOGroup - Provides leadership, communication skills training to business organizations. Includes franchise information, contact form, news and site searching.
• Ology Ltd. - Provides business advice, consulting, and coaching for franchise buyers.
• OneWORLD English School, Inc. -- The OneWORLD Franchise Group -- A OneWORLD limited partnership franchise is an excellent way to establish your own lucrative business. Partnering with us under our umbrella of security and utilizing our professional experience can definitely assure your success as an English teacher in centeral and eastern Asia. Offers English conversation school franchise opportunities in Japan.
• Online Trading Academy - Offers franchise opportunity for trader training. Site includes FAQ and locations.
• Outdoor Decor - Event and seasonal lighting.
• Padgett Business Services - Offers an opportunity for a small business financial services franchise. Includes request form.
• Pak Mail Centers of America, Inc. - Pak Mail offers packaging services and shipping services for all of your shipping needs. We ship anything, anywhere. Custom packaging and shipping service franchise opportunity. Site includes FAQ, locator, estimator, contact form, package tracking and news.
• Parmasters Golf Training Centers - Offers an indoor golf training center franchise opportunity. Includes FAQ, contact form and franchise video.
• Petpals - Business opportunity for pet care. Contains locations, FAQs, testimonials, contact form and links.
• Planet Beach Contempo Spas - Planet Beach Franchises includes tanning salon directories, company and franchise information. Experience the best tanning equipment, ultimate skincare treatments and superior customer service at our day spa. Tanning salon business opportunity. Includes salon directory, FAQ, online shopping and franchise information.
• PostNet - Office supplies and services.
• Prime Sites USA - Franchise hotel and restaurant real estate investments.
• Profit Focus Group - Franchise opportunity in profit improvement, cost reduction and management consulting services. Site includes testimonials, newsletters and contact form.
• Pro-Sight Property Inspections - Home inspection business fanchise opportunity. Includes FAQ, locator, directory and contact form.
• QuickPure(TM) Technology by Alab, LLC - Alab offers licenses for patented breakthrough QuickPure technology for smal ozone based water purifiers, dental care, contact lens cleaning, and fine bubble diffusers. Drinking water purification.
• Red Hot - Offers a franchise opportunity for a consultancy business providing advice on business creation and growth in New Zealand. Includes testimonials and contact form.
• Remedy Staffing - Temporary staffing franchise model, offering systems, materials, training, and financing options.
• Rent 1 & Sale 1 Realty - Offers a real estate franchise opportunity. Offers listings and contact form.
• Sarah Adult Day Services Inc. - Offers health related services to seniors and caregivers. Site includes FAQ, locations, news and franchise application.
• Schooley Mitchell - Offers a franchise opportunity in telecom consulting. Includes locations, FAQ and contact form.
• SecurePay,Inc. - Offers franchise opportunity for transferring money and bill payment services. Site includes contact form.
• Shield Security Systems Inc. - Offers electronic security for residential and commercial protection. Site includes franchise information, FAQ and request form.
• Signworld - Organization of independently-owned sign companies. No fee.
• Slender You Figure Salons - Offers a health and figure salon business franchise. Site includes contact and application form.
• Smith's School of English - Gives teachers a franchise opportunity to teach English in Japan. Site includes FAQ, list of teachers, contact form and testimonials.
• Smokend - Franchises and stop smoking health centers
• The Spinneys Centre - Offers a franchise opportunity using nutritional and alternative therapies.
• Sport Clips Inc. - Men's hair care franchise concept. Site includes locations and request form.
• Starate Worldwide - Offers a franchise opportunity in real estate. Includes locations and contact form.
• Suddenly Slender -- Suddenly Slender The Body Wrap - Victoria Morton's mineral bodywrap -- Information about Suddenly Slender, THE Body Wrap. Victoria Morton's mineral bodywrap gives visible inch loss and provides an outstanding business opportunity. The system is licensed. This is not a franchise. A license is better. No Royalties, only a one time fee.
• Swimsation: swim school -- the profitable way of franchising your swim school that will increase your revenue and streamline your operations -- Swimming lessons and aquatic programs franchise opportunity. Includes locations, employment opportunities and contact form.
• Symbiot Business Group - Nationwide network of residential services franchise. Site includes application forms, career listings, news and service information.
• Taliani Ferro - Offers franchise opportunity in wrought iron components. Includes contact form and product catalog request form.
• Taliani Giuseppe S.a.s. - Offers franchise opportunity in wrought iron components. Includes contact form and product catalog request form.
• Taurus Line Group - Providers of logistics, distribution and forwarding services for international freight. Includes franchise contact information.
• Tax Centers of America - Correspondence-based Income Tax School franchise.
• Taylor Skelton Walters PLC - Offers a land property market franchise opportunity. Includes contact form, case studies.
• Tropical American Tree Farms - Certified hardwood tree farms in Costa Rica.
• Unishippers - Provider of shipping solutions for individuals and small to midsize companies.
• U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc. - Offering Hawthorn Suites and Microtel Inns franchises. Includes franchise request form.
• VR Business Brokers, Inc. - Offers a business broker franchise opportunity. Includes request information and franchise application form.
• Wag'n Tails Mobile Conversions -- Mobile Pet Grooming Conversions and Grooming Accessories -- The leading mobile pet grooming business opportunity. Pet grooming vans, trailers, training resources and professional services. Pet grooming vehicle business opportunity. Site includes FAQ and online credit application.
• Wyndham Hotels -- Hotel Franchise Opportunities with Wyndham hotel franchising -- Wyndham hotel franchise opportunities: hotel franchises from brands like Wingate, Ramada, Amerihost Inn, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, Super 8, and Travelodge. Includes information about franchise opportunities.
• @WORK HelpingHands Services - Offers franchise opportunity for in-home daily living assistance to clients. Site includes locations, employment opportunities and franchise request form.