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If what Richard Solomon is saying over at [...]

In a Smart Company article by James Thomson called MP renews calls for investigations into mistreatment of Bakers Delight franchisee, he quotes:
NSW parliamentarian Joanna Gash has renewed calls for the Australian Federal Police to launch an investigation into accusations Bakers Delight and ANZ bank colluded to put a franchisee out of business.
Quoting emails between the [...]

Michael Webster over at Misleading Advertising Law picked up on my recent posting: Franchisng is the latest Big Con.
I absolutely agree with him: the best defense against post franchisor opportunism is a well-funded, professionally managed independent franchisee association, IndFA.
There is no substitute for collective action and only a fool thinks otherwise.
The power of “sticking together” [...]

Top marks to Jim Coen at Franchise Perfection for bringing up a very important topic.
He posted a great article called Franchise Statistics Debunked Again! on his Let’s Talk Franchising blog and Blue MauMau.
I could not agree with him more: I get really, REALLY irritated when self=serving numbers are thrown around. The unsubstantiated drivel that comes [...]

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 [...]

The Shawshank Redemption is often mentioned as one of the best movies of all times.

Red (Morgan Freeman) explains how the prison walls take Brooks’s (James Whitmore) life.

Most people figure financially successful franchisees pay nothing for turning their backs; for denying their fraternal relationships; complicit in their silence.
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of [...]

Authority within societies has been justified in several ways over the years.
To assume that market forces support democracy or is neutral to it, is a very false notion. Historically, corporate interests do very well under totalitarian regimes, such as fascism or absolute monarchies. During WWII, companies such as IBM, Daimler Benz, Bayer and Fiat prospered.
The [...]

I believe modern mom-and-pop franchising has largely morphed into a Big Con.
Illusion of Legitimacy: The methods of the confidence game have evolved into a much more difficult fraud to deal with because there is very little difference in the look of a blatant scam and a legitimate business format franchise.
Anyone who says you can tell [...]

Anthony’s Franchise Information is a very instructive website for several reasons.
1. It shows how frequently a franchisor will start with one system (3 for 1 Pizza and Wings) and then branch out to other ones (Pizza One, Anthony’s Pizza Uno and Anthony’s Kitchen) once things become a little too “complicated”.
Changing countries and having your mother [...]