Clinique franchise

Industry Consumer goods
Founded 1968
Headquarters New York, United States of America
Products Cosmetics & beauty
Parent Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.
Website www.clinique.com


In 1967, American Vogue magazine published an article called “Can Great Skin Be Created?”, written by beauty editor Carol Phillips with Dr. Norman Orentreich, discussing the significance of a skin-care routine. Evelyn Lauder, daughter-in-law of Estée Lauder, read the article, and brought it to Estée’s attention. Both Carol Phillips and Dr. Orentreich were recruited to help create the brand, and in August, 1968, Clinique premiered as the world’s first allergy tested, dermatologist-driven line at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Evelyn Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder and member of the Lauder family, created the Clinique brand name and developed its line of products. Lauder worked as the training director for Clinique. She was the first person to wear the trademark white lab coat, now worn by Clinique salespeople at cosmetic departments worldwide.

Clinique was the 3rd brand that was "born" from the Lauder Group. The 1st brand being Estee Lauder then Aramis and followed by Clinique.

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Yogen Fruz - Franchise

A Healthy Investment!

Yogen Früz is the largest franchisor and licensor of stores and other locations serving primarily frozen yogurt, through company-owned, franchised and non-traditional partnership locations, with over 1100 locations operating in 20 countries around the world.

On average, three new outlets open each week, somewhere around the world – a pace destined to increase dramatically in the years ahead. Our growth rate is among the fastest of any franchisor in the world. In 1999, Yogen Früz was rated the “Number One Franchise in the World” by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Vision:
To be the Number One Franchisor in the World for frozen dessert products
To aggressively pursue new growth opportunities
To go into various venues and have Brands available that suit each location.

From One Store...To Global LeaderOur yogurt

Franchisees receive assistance with design and layout of stores, and construction, where necessary. In addition, professional training programs help the franchisee operate his store up to the system’s standards.

Locations are carefully monitored and supported, with numerous programs in place to maximize sales and profits. The Head Office’s in-house franchisee services include real estate, marketing, construction and promotional assistance. New in-store merchandising materials are developed by the finest creative marketers in the foodservice business, as are techniques for demonstrating to the consumer that they are receiving the freshest, first quality ingredients.

In addition, a very active R&D department is committed to developing innovative new products prompting customers to return again and again – keeping Yogen Früz ahead of the competition.

The Benefits of a Yogen Fruz Franchise:

Brand recognition: Yogen Fruz has captured 40 percent of the market share in Canada, with outlets in other countries around the world. Yogen Früz is positioned as a healthy and nutritional product, capturing a broad segment of today’s health conscious consumer.

Marketing: New product roll-outs, cross promotions, banners, collateral, P.O.P advertising, Grand Opening advertising

Assistance with: Site selection, floor plan and layout consultation; training and start-up; operations manuals; ongoing support

Cost-savings: Pre-packed portion controlled yogurt slices means zero percent waste factor, national chain purchasing power, simplified distribution network

Increased Sales: Added merchandise will provide new products and increase sales.
Competitive Advantages of the Yogen Fruz Franchise:

Established franchise and license models
Proven routes to market/established channel profit streams
Fully tested operating model refined over 20 years and utilized in numerous countries
No structured competition
Extensive choice of operational location, adaptable to most environments
Low start-up capital with pre-determined set-up costs
High gross profits with cost of sale per product line fully identified
Zero waste as ingredients are frozen with 1 year shelf life
System flexibility/simplicity that is component based, space efficient, set sizes
Simple/efficient production

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Kumon franchise

Kumon

Industry Education, Tutoring
Founded 1958
Headquarters Osaka, Japan (Global HQ), Teaneck, NJ (North America HQ)
Products Kumon Math, Kumon Reading, Jr. Kumon
Website www.kumon.com
Kumon Math and Reading Center, Scio Township, Michigan

Kumon is a corporation and an education brand created by Toru Kumon. The Kumon method is the mathematics and reading educational method which is practised in Kumon's learning centers.[1]
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History

In 1954, Toru Kumon began to teach his eldest son, who was having problems in mathematics at school. Kumon developed the Kumon Method. In 1956, Kumon opened the first Kumon Center in Osaka, Japan with the help of parents who were interested in the Method. In 1958, he founded the Kumon Institute of Education, after which Kumon Centers began to open around the world. Since 1956, some 16 million students have been enrolled in Kumon. As of 2009, over 4 million students were studying under the Kumon Method at more than 26,000 Kumon Centers in 46 countries.[2]
The programs

Kumon is a math and reading enrichment program. Students do not work together as a class, but progress through the curriculum at their own pace, moving on to the next level when they have achieved mastery of the previous level. Students are often guided by tutors to develop their mathematical and reasoning skills. Mastery is defined as speed (using a standard completion time) and accuracy.[3] They take an achievement test at the end of each level. The ratio between the time the student takes on the test and the number of mistakes will determine which group level the student will be in on the test. There is a total of four group levels on the achievement tests, and the lower the group number the better the score.
Company value

The Kumon family, led by Toru's wife Teiko, owns 60 percent of the company. Forbes magazine estimated in March 2009 that the entire company was currently worth over $650 million.[4]

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AM PM Mini Market franchise

The convenience stores, ampm are a subsidiary of BP America, Inc., and people know the brand as a fixture to the ARCO and BP gas stations. The convenience brand, ampm is always there for fountain drinks; coffee and fast food as the first grab for tired road travelers, but stocked up very much with over 2000 products to let everyone feel quite at home. A strong bond of faith for right products and price has developed within consumers over the years of existence of ampm gas station convenience stores, wherever they go.

Strong Global Name

Better to call ampm as a mega market for its dominating presence from Oregon to Osaka, spanning the globe from east to west. The company's pan American presence is pretty visible in the United States in Washington, California, Oregon, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania Georgia and others. ampm's brand is also in Brazil and Costa Rica as a part of Ipiranga stations, in Argentina and Chile with Repsol-YPF/ACA stations, and in Mexico with Pemex stations.

A Bright Prospect For The Franchisees

Visibly, movement of the people is on a continuous rise with the increase of exploring newer opportunities and hence the expansion to areas that were labeled yesterday as remote. It is already resized that many have no time to shop for buying daily necessities for need of covering a long distance to go to the works.

The mini world of convenience stores, ampm are offering them a great support to carry on with personal requirements, while on the way.

Expanding Franchisee Market

The franchisee business was started by the company in 1979 with company's vision to create mini markets with the gasoline stations throughout the United States and in other countries. You can get a better idea of the growth rate of ampm franchise stores in the US market with the number of franchises at 1,055 in the last year in comparison to 667 in 2006.

The company has ambitious plans for the growth of convenience stores. Presently, the company is interested in developing franchises in California, West Washington, Midwest, Arizona, Nevada and the areas of Southeast in the US.

Internationally, the franchise operation is planned for Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Required Investment

The total projected outlay of capital is approximately from $2, 500,000 to $6,270,900, which includes the cost of real estate. The prescribed liquid cash requirement is from $700,000 - $1,000,000.

AmPm Franchisee Opportunities

The corporate decision is to make the ampm stores a completely franchisee oriented convenience brand facility. The company is providing some options to choose from like developing new ampm facilities with land and construction, Re-branding the existing stores and bidding for the company owned existing stores. The whole thing is being viewed as a new industry with a different dimension of retailing.

Offered Advantages

For purchase of the company owned stores, the company offers full architectural designing and project management support. The marketing supports in-store promotions and advertisement on TV and radio under regional advertisement plans. The company provides support of toll-free line, internet and safety and security needs. The ampm store franchise is rated high for the immense potential in convenience brands.

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Habib's Franchise

Industry Restaurants
Founded 1988
Headquarters São Paulo, Brazil
Key people Alberto Saraiva President and Founder
Products Middle Eastern Cuisine
Employees 14,000
Website www.habibs.com.br


Habib's is a Brazilian fast food franchising specialised in Middle Eastern cuisine. It has more than 300 outlets  (many of them self-owned) across the country and has recently begun expansion into foreign markets. It is known for very low prices and exotic dishes. Middle Eastern dishes are very popular in Brazil ever since the immigration of people from that area (particularly Lebanon and Syria) into Brazil, despite their numbers being less than 7% of the overall population.

History

Habib's was founded by a Portuguese-born baker, Alberto Saraiva, with no ties with the Middle East, who got the idea early in 1988 after an ailing old man of Arab descent applied for a job. He had no job for the man, but upon learning that he had been a cook back in his home land, Mr. Saraiva decided to open a small fast-food restaurant and hired the man. The first Habib's restaurant was opened later that same year.

Before Habib's, Middle Eastern cuisine, despite being popular, was not readily available and the prices were usually high. The repressed demand was strong and people queued in front of the restaurant almost since the first day. Catering for this demand, Habib's soon started to grow and became one of Brazil's most thriving businesses. The Habib's is nowadays, the biggest Arabic fast-food in the world and the third biggest fast-food company in Brazil.


Business model
Habib's restaurant in Curitiba downtown, Brazil.

Habib's serves popular Middle Eastern dishes, like tabouleh, kibbeh or sfiha, along with Brazilian sandwiches like bauru or beirute. Prices are usually low and they boast having the fastest fast-food service. In São Paulo they advertise that orders by phone not delivered in less than 28 minutes will not be charged.

About 45% of the 305 Habib's restaurants are owned by the founder, the others are operated in franchising.

The most popular Habib's products at Habib's are the sfiha (a small, round flatbread topped with minced beef or cheese) and the kibbeh (a croquette of beef shaped like a rugby ball with either an olive or some catupiry cheese inside).

Besides the cheap snacks, various set menus are available, ranging from a full Middle Eastern meal to a combination of sfihas, kibbeh, French fries and freshly squeezed fruit juice. Unusual for fast-food restaurants, a waiter takes your order at the table, while knives and forks are always provided.

Competition

Low prices and wide options are important because in the highly competitive Brazilian food market one can find, in addition to traditional restaurants and fast food chains, snack bars serving meaty eats, churrascarias, street vendors selling snacks or hot-dogs, and, most of all, the ubiquitous self-service restaurants where one serves oneself freely from dozens of options and pays after the weight of the plate (the latter type is especially popular and low-priced, usually with clean and nutritious food).

In such a market, Habib's is set apart by its attention to the customer, low price, high quality (though the quality of the sfihas, which are the cheapest item on the menu, is often cast in doubt by popular opinion) and low operational cost (most Habib's restaurants operate in smaller and less expensive locations than, for instance, McDonald's).
 

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McDonald's Franchise

Industry Restaurants
Founded May 15, 1940 in San Bernardino, California;
McDonald's Corporation, April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois
Founder(s) Richard and Maurice McDonald McDonald's restaurant concept;
Ray Kroc, McDonald's Corporation founder.
Headquarters Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S.
Number of locations 33,000+ worldwide
Area served Worldwide
Key people Andrew J. McKenna (Chairman)
James A. Skinner (Vice Chairman and CEO)
Don Thompson (President and COO)
Fred L. Turner (Honorary Chairman)
Products Fast food (hamburgers • chicken • french fries • soft drinks • coffee • milkshakes • salads • desserts • breakfast)
Employees 400,000 (January 2010)
Website http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/


McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth.

A McDonald's restaurant is operated by either a franchisee, an affiliate, or the corporation itself. The corporation's revenues come from the rent, royalties and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants.

McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, shakes and desserts. In response to changing consumer tastes, the company has expanded its menu to include salads, wraps, smoothies and fruit.

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Bob's franchise

Industry Fast food
Founded 1952 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Founder(s) Robert Falkenburg
Headquarters Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Products Hamburgers and Milkshakes
Employees 4,000
Parent Brazil Fast Food Corp.
Website http://www.bobs.com.br/


Bob's is the first Brazilian fast food chain, founded in 1952 by the American Brazilian tennis champion Robert Falkenburg, Wimbledon tourney winner in 1948. The first store was opened in the borough of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.

Falkenburg (also known as "Bob") was the first person to introduce the fast-food concept in Brazil. The first store in Rio, introduced for the first time in the country Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, milkshakes and sundaes. In 1972, however, Falkenburg sold the franchise to the Brazilian Fast Food Corporation (BFFC).


Big Bob

Among the main sandwiches sold by the company, Big Bob is the most popular and it is made of two hamburgers, onions and lettuce. The chain also offers innovative sandwiches, as Toasted cheese with banana sandwich. Another very popular item sold by the franchise is the Ovomaltine milkshake.

Business model

In 1984, Bob's started a franchising system, opening new stores in Vitória, Espirito Santo. Since then, Bob's has been expanding within Brazil and also in other countries.

Today, there are about 610 stores in every Brazilian state, of which about 320 are franchises. There are also some stores in Portugal (Carcavelos, Algés and Bragança) as well as in Chile, and Angola.

Other brands

Bob's Shakes, formerly known as "Bob's Sorvetes" (Bob's Ice Cream), sells frozen desserts such as ice cream, milk shakes and pies. It was rebranded to the current name in 2009 due to increased popularity of its milk shakes (principally the Ovomaltine's) compared to ice cream.

Bexpress by Bob's offers half-finished and ready sandwiches to be heated in the oven, which can be eaten in or carried out.

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O Boticário franchise

Industry Cosmetics
Founded 1977
Headquarters São José dos Pinhais, Brazil
Key people Artur Grynbaun, (Chairman)
Revenue increase US$ 2.9 Billion (2011)
Employees 22.000
Parent Grupo Boticário
Website www.boticario.com.br

O Boticário is the second biggest Brazilian cosmetic company, behind Natura. It has 3.260 stores in Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Japan, France and Spain. O Boticário is the largest cosmetic franchise in the world. The main competitors of the company are Natura, Avon Products and Jequiti.
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History

O Boticário was created in 1977 as a small prescription drugstore in the city of Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. Today the company is the world’s largest perfumery and cosmetics franchising network.

O Boticário’s industrial and administrative complex has 34.4 thousand square meters of floor space in the city of São José dos Pinhais in the Curitiba Metropolitan Area. It employs 1,300 people and creates approximately 10 thousand jobs through its franchising network. O Boticário’s first manufacturing plant was inaugurated in 1982, with just 1 thousand square meters of floor space. Then it employed 27 people who worked to manufacture about 400 thousand items a year. O Boticário’s current production exceeds 59 million units.

Fundação O Boticário

In 1990, the company created the Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza (O Boticário Nature Protection Foundation), a nonprofit organization that has already sponsored 800 conservationist projects including studies, scientific research, environmental education programs and direct fauna and flora protection actions all over Brazil. The Foundation also supports the “Natural Areas Protection Program”, which aims at implementing its own private network of Natural Heritage Sites.

The first one is the Reserva Salto Morato (Salto Morato Natural Reserve), which occupies a 2,340-hectar area, in Guaraqueçaba, on the north coast of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. This reservation protects a significant area of the Atlantic Rainforest, besides being provided with infrastructure for scientific research, environmental education, and outdoor recreation. In November 1999, the reservation supported by Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza was declared a Natural Heritage Site by Unesco.

Products

O Boticário’s product lines consist of approximately 480 items, divided into the following categories: body care, facial care, sun care, makeup, deodorizing colognes, deodorants, soaps and shampoos.

Amazonian plants such as açaí, cupuaçu, carnaúba, guaraná, cashew, and passion flower; gums extracted from algae and vegetal extracts, such as arnica and urucum, are among the active ingredients present in the brand’s products.

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