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Unhappy Franchisee has been following Curves International and the issues facing Curves franchise owners since 2008.  Prior to that we published Curves news and hosted discussions on FranchisePick.com (now archived at EveryJoe.com).  We have also followed and written extensively on other franchised fitness concepts, including Contours Express, Butterfly Life, Cuts Fitness for Men, Diversified Health [...]

Jared Coad claims he is a victim of franchise fraud perpetrated by SolarTEK Energy and SolarTEK CEO Brant Ira Patton. Jared Coad has vowed that unless his $35,000 investment for the Arizona license rights is returned in full, he will dedicate his life to spreading the word that Solartek Energy is a scam. June 14, [...]

BP franchisees are small business owners. They are employers, taxpayers, homeowners & community members. They have expenses, loans, payrolls and mortgages to pay. They have families to support. Yet their American dreams and livelihoods are under attack by a huge insurgency of adversaries calling for their demise and plunge into bankruptcy. // Some of these [...]

According to the Kumon tutoring services franchise website, “One of the largest and most established franchise businesses in the world, Kumon has nearly 250,000 students enrolled at more than 1,500 individually owned and operated Math & Reading Centers in U.S. and Canada alone.”
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As we reported in the post  KUMON Franchise [...]

Franchisees and Franchisors go to war over discounting, advertising.
Marketing strategy and use of advertising funds has always been an area of heated debate between franchisors and franchisees, especially in the foodservice segment of franchising.  The recession, declining sales and a trend toward deep price discounting and product giveaways has heated the debate past the boiling [...]