The word "franchises" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun, and generally refers to a business that is licensed to use another company's trademark or logo in order to sell their goods or services. Example sentence: McDonald's has created many successful franchises around the world.
The global success of its franchises – The Walking Dead is the biggest-ever cable show in the US and has a massive global following – has led AMC to make the $1bn bet on controlling its own content on channels internationally.
The transport minister, Theresa Villiers, said the consultation would ask whether longer franchises, of between 15 and 20 years, would encourage operators to finance improvements in in trains and services.
But another Palestinian businessman, who owns some KFC and Pizza Hut franchises in the West Bank, is planning to open a restaurant within the walls and fences that surround the Gaza Strip, and a second application has been made for a KFC franchise in the tiny and crowded coastal territory.
The Scottish government will have power to allow public sector operators to bid for rail franchises funded and specified by Scottish ministers.
The east coast mainline from London to Edinburgh, a prize the Virgin boss has long coveted, will be the next big rail competition, to be awarded next year, after the government announced a number of extensions to the current franchises – including allowing Virgin to retain its west coast service until 2017.
MLS has committed to adding four more franchises by 2020.
The DfT said it would award longer franchises to train operators to encourage investment, and welcomed moves by Network Rail to hand over more powers to its regional route directors.
This and a new coach who players hopefully want to work for may put the club on a better path but it remains to be seen how they will cope in a competition that seems to be going the way of powerful clubs and expansion franchises.
This was Shelby, a landscape of clapboard Baptist churches and faceless corporate franchises, where one man, acting in almost total isolation, had over a period of eight years cemented his reputation as the most fearsome digital pirate of all.
Lucas, now 54, says the Greens' most popular policy today is to bring the railways back into public ownership when the franchises expire.
She wants to allow public sector companies to compete for franchises and challenge the existing train operators.
