Legal fees for franchising paperwork cost $25,000 alone.
Franchises cost $1.5 million, teams can spend only $565,000 on players' salaries, and marketing budgets are modest.
Mr. Bird's movie, the fourth in the Paramount Pictures franchise, cost an estimated $145 million to make and was filmed on location (Dubai, India, Russia) using Imax cameras.
The transport secretary must come clean on how much this has cost her department when last year's negotiations for a similar extension to the West Coast franchise cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a million pounds in payments to consultants and lawyers.
While the IFA's DeBolt notes that 80% of franchises cost less than $250,000 and financing is abundant, VetFran is clearly aimed more at the older, wealthier veteran.
Strategies such as improved use of technology help overcome operational challenges to make franchising more cost-effective at scale.
A CURVES franchise costs $20,000 and includes equipment.
Creating new franchises costs money, and Time Warner's margins were somewhat affected by investments in content rights for the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament and in start-up costs for HBO GO, a streaming library of shows.
As of June 30, the company said that licensing costs, franchise costs and goodwill -- all intangibles -- accounted for $85 billion, or three-quarters of the company's net worth of $110 billion.
New franchisees had to sign 250-page contracts which stipulated in extraordinary detail exactly how they would run their businesses (in the UK today, opening up a new franchise costs between £100m and £300m, and needs a 20-year commitment to the firm).
