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    • Wed Nov 12th 15:31 PM
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      Panera Bread Ready to Rise
      Francorp is the world leader in franchise consulting and analysis. There are many additional franchise companies that provide solid investments because of their leveraged models and lean organizations.


      On Oct 06 12:56 PM Francorp wrote:

      > For more information on new franchise groups and systems coming into
      > the market just visit the Francorp site. Francorp develops about
      > 100 new franchise companies each year.
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    • Fri Oct 10th 10:58 AM
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      Investing in Franchise Stocks
      Francorp has worked with a multitude of public franchise companies.


      On Oct 06 09:44 AM Mystery28 wrote:

      > Thanks Francorp guy, I appreciate the info. Keep us posted on any
      > updated franchising info.
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    • Mon Oct 6th 12:56 PM
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      Panera Bread Ready to Rise
      For more information on new franchise groups and systems coming into the market just visit the Francorp site. Francorp develops about 100 new franchise companies each year.


      On Oct 06 09:47 AM Mystery28 wrote:

      > Thanks Francorp guy. I appreciate the info and insight on the franchise
      > industry. Keep us posted on new franchise developments.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 20:37 PM
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      Investing in Franchise Stocks
      Also take a look at Buffalo Wild Wings. This is a Francorp Client from the 90's that has continued to perform very well. Short term, who knows with the economy and disposable income, but still a great company and should be a great stock.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 19:34 PM
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      Investing in Franchise Stocks
      You can never go wrong with MCD. This is one of the most time tested investments you can ever bet on. They have utilized franchising more effectively than any other company in the history of franchise expansion.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 19:31 PM
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      Panera Bread Ready to Rise
      Good questions and points Mystery28. I would argue the point that there are not very many franchised public companies on the market. Francorp has worked with many companies to utilize franchising as a way to take a company into the public market as well as worked with already current public companies to revitalize a franchise organization and brand. The fact is that franchise organizations will have a very strong valuation in most cases simply because they have used franchising as a way to leverage a good thing...whether it be the business model, the brand equity or something else. The problem with company owned or debt financed growth is that it by nature is very capital intensive. Francorp has built thousands of successful companies through leveraging the capital requirements out to the franchisees. It seems that over the past few years I have seen and heard this more often. I know that I have been the customer on more than one occasion at a Starbucks when the service was very poor. Either the product was made incorrectly or the way I was treated just was not in line with what has made Starbucks successful. It has been proven time and time again with the work at Francorp that operations with an owner operator present in the location outperform company owned operations with hired management in the location. You are correct, Starbucks has never franchised and probably never will....although recently they did put together a master license arrangement with a european business contingent. But that being said, my point would be that if some or many of those units were franchised, the leases and debt financing would be relaxed from a corporate perspective, the individual franchisees would take some of that burden from the corporate infrastructure. It also would give the operators more "buy in" to the operation itself. I would bet that with the same Starbucks operations they have had to close now, some of those could be kept open profitably in the franchise model. Francorp has worked with many companies in similar situations where they have actually franchised company units to get to a more efficient level of profitability.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 08:19 AM
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      Google Breaks Down
      The fact is that Google still controls the Internet Ad Spend. More and more companies will be looking to get more from their ad dollars. In most businesses today the most effective spend is on the Internet. Google isn't going anywhere.
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    • Tue Sep 30th 13:25 PM
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      Rentech: Homegrown Synthetic Fuel On the Near Horizon
      This is an interesting stock, it seems that it could be "played" relatively easily on the swings?
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    • Tue Sep 30th 13:20 PM
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      S&P 500 Energy Stocks
      Does anyone else agree with me on XTO that this is a great play? I really feel comfortable with this model and the potential for this company
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    • Sun Sep 28th 12:54 PM
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      New Rules for Chinese Stock Market Investors
      A must read for all international investors is "The World is Flat". My firm, Francorp is a global company, we work in over 40 countries around the world. One of the things we have to get used to is that each day there are less and less "developing" areas of the world where businesses and people can exploit a immature market. In today's economy we have to be prepared to compete on a global scale or your business stands to be taken out in a global marketplace.
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    • Sun Sep 28th 12:51 PM
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      Panera Bread Ready to Rise
      My Firm works with a lot of growing franchises and specifically food franchises. We have never liked the store layouts or design of the locations that Panera uses. That being said they have taken over the fast casual niche that suburbians seem to love. I agree with the last comment though that food prices will kill a model like Panera's.

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    • Wed Sep 24th 13:48 PM
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      Has the Economy Killed the Health Food Craze?
      I still feel that we are seeing a great deal of health food concepts and that people in most cases are choosing to eat healthy.
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    • Wed Sep 24th 13:46 PM
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      What Makes McDonald's an Excellent Play?
      McDonalds is still a great play. My company has done a great deal of work with McDonalds in the past and we have been impressed with McDonalds no matter what the economy and what the circumstances are.
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    • Wed Sep 24th 13:38 PM
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      Why Japan's Buying Spree Boons Well for Investors
      See, sometimes it pays off when you bail out another economy for 50 years! Japan to the rescue!
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    • Wed Sep 17th 15:35 PM
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      Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We Have You Surrounded
      I am a big beleiver in VMware, my faith is continually being tested by the stock price, but the technology is not even close. I have worked in this industry with VM extensively and they have the best technology. Hopefully in the end that translates into a better stock price!
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