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Franchising has been the saviour of free enterprise for business. It has been the most
efficient method of chaining stores. Moreover it’s more advantageous than being in
business on your own, as that involves heavy investment. With the culture of franchising
becoming popular all over the globe, let’s know about some leading franchises around
the globe at present.
7Eleven
7Eleven is a pioneer in the convenience stores business and has its headquarters in
Texas, United States. This well established convenience store has got branches all over
the world, and is also leading petrol suppliers. They are the largest petrol sellers in
Australia.
Pizza Hut
Needless to say, Pizza Hut is one of the top Pizza restaurants in the world. It is a
subsidiary of “Yum! Brand”, the world’s largest food company in the world. The Pizza
Hut was founded in 1958, and now has over 12,000restaurants around the world over in
94 countries. The firm was renovated in 2014 after its sales went down for two years
since 2012, and from then, the company never looked back.
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Subway
Subway is also an American fast food company, and its parent company is Doctor’s
Associate Inc. The firm concentrates primarily on salads and sandwiches, and is rated
among the fastest growing franchises in the world. In 2010, Subway overtook
McDonald’s as the “Largest fastfood chain” with 33,749 restaurants worldwide.
KFC
Kentucky Fried Chicken, popularly known as KFC is regarded as the second largest
restaurant chain in terms of sales.KFC and Pizza Hut are sibling firms as they belong to
the same parent company, Yum! Brand.KFC was established with the idea of
introducing pressurised chicken in mid1960s. Though it had some slips in the 70’s and
80’s, the restaurant is a giant in the industry today.
McDonald’s
The brand known for its quick service to its customer, founded in 1950 by brothers Dick
and Mac McDonald. Now, the firm is world’s largest hamburger fast food restaurant in
the world. McDonald’s has its headquarters in the United States, and now serves 68
million customers across the world every day. McDonald’s is the second largest
employer in the world next only to WalMart, with 1.9 million employees.
So far we saw about the established franchises around the globe and now we’ll get the
lowdown on some of the fast growing franchises in the world.
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Hampton Hotels
Hampton Hotels is a premium group of branded hotels that mainly targets business
people and leisure travellers. Hamilton hotels, in 2004 had a renovation camp around
the world promoting “Make it Hampton”updating at least 5 features of the hotel.
Currently, the Hampton Hotels group is the largest franchise in USA.
Anytime fitness
Anytime Fitness is a fitness gym that was opened forworking out around the clock. The
most striking factor of this gym is that it is open all 365 days in the year. Moreover,
Forbes has listed Anytime Fitness as the fastest growing fitness club in the world.It has
around 2500 franchisees around the globe.
Jack in the box
This is a drivethrough burger restaurant in America found in 1951. These restaurants
mainly concentrate on hamburgers, sandwiches and other snack items such as egg
rolls and tacos. The restaurant is on an expansion spree and is expected to increase its
franchises from its current 2,200.
Servpro
Servpro is a unique concept of franchising. The concept is based on extending fire and
water cleanup and restoration services. This concept is fast spreading in The United
States of America and is all set to capture franchises all over the world. The
“Entrepreneur” ranked it as the #7 bankable franchise opportunity and #1 in the
Restoration Services Category.
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India is turning into an economic hub for Global investments and has many international entities embarking on the corporate scene in India. There are many other franchise options left and you can also smartly bank on those franchises.
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