One of them is the history it provides of the company that we see today as Dun & Bradstreet. It’s motto is Decide with Confidence and they one of the first companies to be in the information game.In 1841, Lewis Tappan and his Mercantile Agency was the first modern credit bureau. In effect, Tappan established [...]

Frank Zaid is a Canadian lawyer with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.
1. From his wikipedia page:

He has been listed as one of the leading franchise law practitioners in every published edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
In the 2005 and 2006 editions of Who’s [...]

Il Duce means leader in Italian.
It is a term that is often applied by those that choose to influence others in a dictatorial manner.
A national franchise association assists the setting up and marketing of business format franchises in that country.
They lobby and represent the franchisors’ view and oppose franchisees when their interests are in conflict [...]

Ever wonder why there are so many unhappy lawyers? The best bit is at 7:37.
“Stringing a case out”.

Wondered why everyone says: “Better talk to a lawyer specializing in franchise law?“
Because you do not know if you have a good case [law services are a credence good] you can easily be convinced that there is no [...]

The children’s game, “Where’s Waldo?” was a big hit with my kids a few years back. Here is a link to Waldo Wiki for some fun.
Otherwise, it appears from New Zealand’s One NEWS that the Blue Chip founder is somewhere in Australia (Blue Chip hope sparked by frozen funds).
Hundreds of Blue Chip investors across New [...]

From Reuters:
Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday.
Offending pedestrians, moped riders and cyclists would be snapped at selected intersections and their images put in regular columns and on special television programmes set [...]

This is an interesting article by Nevil Gibson in The National Business Review: Franchisers face prospect of regulation.
Nevil Gibson starts of with:
The Green Acres franchising scam, in which dozens of new migrants from China and India were bilked of millions of dollars, has sparked a government clampdown on the sector.
Commerce Minister Dalziel [picture] is quoted [...]

There are a lot of foolish ideas about what happens when franchisor goes insolvent or bankrupt [by design or accidentally]. While I am not a bankruptcy expert nor am I a lawyer, I have seen the devastation that corporate maneuvering can cause.
It’s usually a shitty situation.
As an excellent explanation of one example, please see Blue [...]

Neil Hickman, with wife Michelle and their children Lewis (6) Lauren (11) and Holly (10), moved here from the UK for a better life but have lost their life savings after investment company failures. Photo / Martin Sykes
Good job: Naturally, raise enough doubt to have the contracts set aside as unenforceable because they were based [...]