His major success came with building Pizza Ventures into the biggest franchisee of Godfather's Pizza.
The IKEA Group is the biggest franchisee; other franchisees run the remaining 35 stores, mainly in the Middle East and Asia.
The Ingka Holding group, the company owned by the Kamprad foundation, is the biggest franchisee, with its 207 stores; other franchisees run the remaining 28 stores, which are mainly in the Middle East and Asia.How much money does Inter IKEA Systems make?
Diageo is desperate to reassure investors that a sale will happen, even though one of Burger King's biggest franchisees this week went into bankruptcy.The fast-food industry is, belatedly, responding to the new challenge.
In contrast, Porsche is in line for a bumper year, after the German luxury-car maker sold its entire annual 25,000 production run of its new sport-utility vehicle before they were released to dealers.AmeriKing, one of Burger King's biggest American franchisees, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The biggest 100 franchisees control at least 11,000 units, up from 7,500 in 1992.
RTM is the biggest Arby's franchisee.
A regional manager for a big fast-food franchisee, Joe is as passionate about the Bronx Bombers today as he was growing up in Queens.
"But if you look at the big disputes between the franchisee and the franchiser, those disputes are invariably over franchisees unhappy with the direction that the main company is taking, whether it's their ad campaigns or their suppliers they have to buy from".
K.F.C. units are so profitable, in fact, that the company is beginning to shift its emphasis from franchised units to company-owned units, and is buying out the franchisee corporations in the big-city markets.
In return, the Japanese firm may get not only capital and new management ideas, but also better access to the burgeoning Chinese market.This is the case with Laox, an atrophying electronics retailer in which a Chinese franchisee and Suning, a big Chinese appliance retailer, recently bought a 51% stake.
