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Resales as a profit center
Sabotage
Saturates markets through multiple distribution channels
Sets up competing distribution channel
Starts 2nd system from insolvent 1st
Stock market pressures
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products in grocery stores. The Body Shop distributes catalogues by mail. And countless fast-food chains have set up min-outlets in non-traditional locations, such as department stores, hospitals
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real objective, Raining litigation, Secured creditors (banks) 100% covered in dodgy insolvency, Securities fraud, Sets up competing distribution channel, Shell companies, Shills, Sincerity, Smartest guy
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John Boyd, a Mail Boxes Etc. Inc. store owner for the past 11 years, became furious when the company mandated that franchisees like himself spend up to $55,000 to remodel their stores. To Boyd, who
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; Canada's 124 Mercury dealers sold just 3,332 Lincolns. "There's too much cost in the distribution channel," Gaunt says, explaining that an oversized dealer body ties up capital that could be used
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franchises same as stocks, mutual funds, lending, and securities
Selling price inflated by easy credit bubble
Seminar selling
Sets up competing distribution channel
Settlement just a tiny fraction
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an outright scam.
I've seen a franchisor whose system was set up to fail. Their business was to be reselling stores and keep getting the upfront fees as well as the resale value. One store was sold four
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franchised distribution channels. Their interests are extremely influential while franchisee investors have a very weak collective voice. There are many extremely qualified businesspeople who have
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Taxpayers set up to take the hit
John Minto
The most surprising thing about the bailout of South Canterbury Finance is that it has passed without much more than a ripple. It seems we have become so used
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be an excellent way for young people to set up their own business
Simon Read
Buying into a franchise at just 25 can be daunting, but Philip Edwards of Newbury, Berks, is enthusiastic about his opportunity
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