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Rudiments of setting up a franchise

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

Taking up a franchise over an independent business, undoubtedly offers the aspirants with huge benefits. For example, franchisees get to avail the already established brand name, low risk, reasonable investment, high returns and long-term assistance. However, like any other business, franchise business too has its share of hard work, and challenges. Thus, to assist the ...

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Leading food franchise concepts

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

Food being one of the basic necessities of life is gradually becoming a status symbol of the middle and upper middle class society. These days people identify food by its brand. This dramatic change in the mind set of the Indians has led to the emergence of food businesses as one of most lucrative business ...

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Masters of franchising

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

Are you seeking a franchise of a successful brand? If yes, then the current article will inform and educate you about all the well established franchise brands in India based on a Top 100 franchise opportunity survey conducted by ‘The Franchising World’ magazine on account of the completion of its 10 years of publication.Established franchisorsEstablished ...

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Attire spells franchise success

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

‘Clothes maketh a man’ is a famous saying that engulfs the essence of this article. With franchising becoming a popular concept, the national and international apparel brands too have taken this route to expand. The Indian apparel industry plays a critical role in the economic development of the country with its contribution to industrial output, ...

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More about franchisee underreporting

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

From the beginning, franchisors have focused almost exclusively on trying to sell as many franchises as possible, not on trying to augment their revenues through underreporting investigations. Sometime back, audits were not only time-consuming and expensive; however, they engendered considerable bad-will in the franchise community.Auditing: the in-thingSoon, however, audits became ‘the in-thing.’ A cottage industry ...

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Innovation paves way for new franchise businesses

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

Franchising as a business concept has gained lot of prominence in the last few years. The wide acceptance of franchising can be greatly attributed towards the growth of new franchisors with their unique business concepts. In the highly competitive age, the uniqueness of any business idea predicts the success or failure of a brand. A ...

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Sparkling retail franchise concepts

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

Franchising, as we all know, is a technique of doing business and expanding the successful business through its channel partners called franchisees. Franchising is mainly classified into service and product or business format franchising. All the companies who are selling their services are called service franchises where as, the companies who are selling their products ...

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Re-selling: a boon for franchising

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

A franchise re-sale takes place when an existing franchisee wishes to sell their franchise to the new franchisees. Re-selling can take place for many reasons. Though the franchisor owns the brand and is the brain behind the brand but as franchisee has signed a franchise agreement and has taken up the franchise in lieu of ...

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Global brands cashing on Indian food franchise industry

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

India being positioned among the top four Asian destinations for FDI, the F&B sector is witnessing the entrance of a number of international players through franchising. Franchising considered as a profitable venture is being opted by the foreign players to expand their business globally. According to the Top 100 franchises by The Franchising World magazine, ...

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Franchising benefits from financial service experts

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

The financial services space is rapidly growing in India. According to the latest Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) data, financial services, banking, insurance and real estate sectors have risen by 7.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2009-10. This displays the success of the financial service industry. With the over-all increase in the finance services ...

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