4Hoteliers Emerging markets group celebrates year of achievements. Worldwide lodging franchisor Choice Hotels International today announced that its emerging markets team added 40 new franchisees in 2007- approximately a 15 percent increase over 2006. With executed franchise agreements for all ten Choice... More

Australian Foods, owner of the Cookie Man brand, is on an expansion drive to double its number of stores across India in the next one year. The company has been following a unique model of retailing its cookies through own franchise stores. Cookie Man products are not sold in any other outlet and their... More

In an unprecedented move, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) today released a report on Fair Franchising that offers insight into franchisor-franchisee relationships and provides a tool for holding franchise companies more accountable for their practices and agreements. AAHOA’s... More

Franchise Wire While industry heavyweight Realogy, the parent of Century 21, Era, and Coldwell Banker report net losses for 2007 of $797 Million, feisty Casa Latino Real Estate reports continued system growth. According to the 2008 edition of the well respected industry trend bible, the Swanpoel Trends... More

Bangkok Post Huge, multinational franchises continue to swarm across Thailand, but there is still room for young, innovative, home-grown talent When Kasempoj Yuwakeittikul, a 29-year-old accounts executive at a Bangkok insurance broker’s, came back from a holiday in Tokyo last week, he was very... More

Business Standard Italian coffee brand illycaffe announced the arrival of its luxury cafe chain in India. The company has partnered with Narang Group, distributor of high end beverages, as master franchisee for the same. “This partnership will enable us to open five ‘espressamente illy’... More

Cartridge World, a leading cartridge retailing chain based in Australia, is expanding its operations in South India by opening two retail stores in Chennai. Addressing the press on Thursday, Naveen Rakhecha, CEO, South Asia, Cartridge World, said the company had 22 stores across India in 12 cities and... More

Sowetan In the late 1960’s, there were no fast food outlets where you could buy hot wings and this was George Sombonos inspiration to start his fried chicken business. From mixing the secret Chicken Licken recipe under his bed, Sombonos has grown Chicken Licken into a R600-million a year franchise... More

Biz Yahoo: Ruby Tuesday, Inc., a leading causal dining restaurant company, announced that Bin Hendi Hospitality, LLC, its franchisee in Dubai, will expand restaurant growth to six of the seven United Arab Emirates. Bin Hendi plans to develop seven Ruby Tuesday restaurants in Dubai and five in the UAE. Mohi... More

Malaysia’s beauty chain, Clara International, has appointed Jawed Habib Hair & Beauty as the master franchisee in India CLARA International, one of the country’s biggest beauty chains, is expanding its time-tested franchise programme worldwide with its entry into India’s beauty... More

Ame Info FranExcel, the Middle East’s leading franchise marketing, brokerage and consultancy company, has signed an agreement with Global Franchise of Brazil, to market Brazilian franchise brands into the Middle East and Asia. The agreement will also see the option for Middle East-based franchise... More

Albawaba Vantage Capital Celebrates the Launch of Caribou Coffee in Jordan with Opening Ceremony at Al Baraka Mall The Arabian Company for Coffee, a member of Vantage Capital (Trust & Hospitality for Financial Investments), the franchisee of Caribou Coffee in Jordan, is launching its second branch... More