In 2003, Mr. Lewis became a franchisee of HomeVestors, a national company that specializes in buying houses from people who need to sell quickly.
"In Canton," he said, "99percentt of them aren't able to cash out". Mr. Lewis, the investor, said, "The financial habits that get renters into trouble in the first place tend to get them into trouble again". In 2003, Mr. Lewis became a franchisee of HomeVestors, a national company that specializes in buying houses from people who need to sell quickly.
Massage Envy is a co-op of franchisees of a Scottsdale, Ariz., company, Massage Envy Franchising, who are located in Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.
So far Gumbusters of New York, one of the American franchisees of a Dutch company, has vaporized gum spots from 500,000 square feet of the city, Mr. Fields said.
Inspired and motivated by his son, a recent college graduate, Jim went from being the President/CEO of a major paper manufacturing company in the Northeast, to being a renewable energy entrepreneur as a franchisee of Supergreen Solutions, a two-year-old company that acts as advisor, provider and installer of domestic and commercial energy efficient solutions.
So he became a franchisee of the Personal Training Institute, a chain of storefront gyms that pair half-hour, one-on-one workouts with weekly nutrition counseling.
Corey Braun, the franchisee of the Chick-fil-A in the Victoria Gateway Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., provided dozens of free meal coupons to a group of same-sex marriage advocates demonstrating Monday at an intersection near the restaurant, PinkNews notes.
Investors interested in the sector may want to take a look at traditional lodging companies such as Lodgian (amex: LGN), a franchisee of about 90 hotels operating under a range of brand names, such as Holiday Inn, Marriott, Clarion, Doubletree, Four Points, Hilton, Quality and Radison.
A&W will be acquired by A Great American Brand, led by a franchisee of A&W restaurants overseas and the National A&W Franchisees Association representing A&W operators in the United States.
On Tuesday, newly released internal emails showed Pruitt had ordered an aide to set up a call with the chairman of Chick-fil-A to discuss the administrator's wife, Marlyn Pruitt, becoming a franchisee of the growing fast-food chain.
