The largest Hawaiian Coffee/Smoothie Franchise in the United States, ranked 190 Franchise 500 (January 2008). Maui Wowi offers a simple, profitable, and flexible business model with low investment where you can start with one location and scale up to multiple locations. With one franchise fee, an owner gets the rights to open multiple locations ranging from a mobile cart, trailer or four wall kiosk to a stand alone drive-thru or storefront. Maui Wowi allows you to build a business that fits your lifestyle. Maui Wowi is the perfect low-investment, low-risk business to build wealth while spending time with your family, traveling, or pursuing your dreams! As a Maui Wowi business owner, you can run the show yourself or you can manage the managers. You have the option of working full-time, part-time, from home or hands-on, build your business fast or slow, and enjoy what's important to you! City Publications is a high quality lead and client generating company which produces beautiful, active affluent lifestyle cooperative direct mail pieces using 4 color glossy two sided marketing cards. Great Clips, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and established in 1982, is the largest brand in the hair care industry. Our salons are conveniently located in strip malls in 138 markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. No appointments are necessary for men, women, and children to get haircuts and perms at competitive prices.<br>A distinct and enduring advantage of having over 2,600 salons under one brand makes us clearly the dominant presence in our industry. Combining the experience of Great Clips, along with your candidate's business acumen, together we will continue to be a strong force within the $55 billion hair care industry.<br>What really makes this business concept unique is the fact that it is recession resistant, simple and has steady growth; you will be hard pressed to find a better business that meets all three. Sport Clips is a truly unique concept in the haircutting industry. Our target is men and boys, and our store design creates an exciting visual experience that will put a smile on your face. At Huntington Learning Center our success is achieved through reaching our solitary goal: the success of the student. Our franchisees are dedicated to helping students of all levels reach their highest potential, and our corporate team is dedicated to helping franchisees achieve theirs. As we continue to expand and add centers across the country, we are actively seeking highly motivated, success-oriented individuals who share our high standards and commitment to excellence. With Huntington Learning Center you can fulfill your dreams by helping a young person achieve his. As you explore the opportunities and support we provide, you will discover we offer one of the most rewarding franchise business available today. Nestlé® Toll House® is the most powerful chocolate chip cookie brand in the foodservice industry. Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip features Nescafe®, the world’s largest coffee brand. Molly Maid is a wonderfully uncomplicated opportunity with surprising rewards. Molly Maid is a leading home-services franchise that's been honed and perfected for 25 years. For a modest investment it offers an internationally respected brand name, attractive return on effort, family-friendly working hours, a network of 700 peers, and repeat customers who generate multiple recurring revenue streams. As a leading hotel franchisor, Choice Hotels International has more than 60 years experience and over 5,000 properties open or under development in 44 nations, giving Choice global brand recognition. FASTSIGNS is one of the industry's leading sign and graphic franchises. Using a computer-based design technique, our concept emphasizes sign and graphic solutions. We offer fast turnaround, a business-to-business environment, and top-quality signs and graphics for corporate, professional and retail clients. The competitive advantages of a FASTSIGNS are as follows: high growth industry, business hours, low seasonality, few employees, business clientele, recession resistant business, highest revenue in the quick sign industry, system wide store revenue increases 14 out of 15 consecutive years, no FASTSIGN related arbitration or litigation, and protected, exclusive territories. Party Land is the world's LARGEST international retail party supply franchise, specializing in service, selection, and savings. We are the official party staff for the new millennium and beyond. AlphaGraphics has been a leader in print and visual communications for more than 35 years. With over 260 independently owned and operated locations in the U.S. and eight countries, we set the standard for solutions in printing, marketing communications and document creation and management. At AlphaGraphics, we do more than just design, copy and print--we help our customers communicate. The need for effective communication is stronger than ever – you need to connect, and we can help you do that well – we’re the vital connection™ for your communication needs. The nation's first retail ice cream franchise, Carvel enjoys an incredible following of loyal and passionate customers. Carvel retail stores offer a full line of ice cream products including soft serve ice cream, hand dipped ice cream, ice cream cakes and ice cream novelties Liberty Tax Service is the fastest growing tax service ever within the industry. It is our goal to bring in franchisees of high caliber, who are motivated to grow with us as we set a record breaking pace to become the industry leader. Complete with a resourceful headquarters and management staff w/ over 500 years in the tax industry, Liberty provides ongoing support in operations, marketing, tax and technical areas. Franchisees develop their exclusive territories by opening and operating retail store locations. Liberty Tax is an attractive franchise opportunity because of the seasonality of the business model. Two-thirds of our franchisees keep their jobs while they grow and develop their Liberty franchise. CEO John Hewitt is the only person who has founded two franchise tax companies that Entrepreneur magazine has ranked on their Franchise 500. He's a veteran of 39 tax seasons, 12 years w/ H&R Block, 16 years as founder and CEO of Jackson Hewitt and the past 11 as CEO of Liberty. Mr. Hewitt has been named the International Franchise Association's Entrepereneur of the Year Award for 2006. AmeriCare Alliance answers the needs of the greatest demographic shift in the history of the US by providing a national franchise system of non-medical home care services to seniors, post maternity, childcare and surgical clients at a fraction of the costs of institutional or medical facilities. Since 1996, House of Bread has been providing high quality, healthy and delicious baked goods to our customers daily. We have enjoyed a phenomenal response to our products and have greatly exceeded our initial sales projections.House of Bread has found its niche primarily through heavy sampling, open production sites and the milling of wheat on-site; we have been utilizing these proven strategies for success.House of Bread Franchising offers an opportunity to experience the pride and independence of owning your own business along with the benefits of a proven system and a strong support network. Changing times are encouraging people to own their own businesses and control their own destinies as they seek to be free from the pressures of the corporate world. House of Bread Franchising is a natural fit for those who aren't afraid of hard work, while ready for a rewarding and successful business environment.House of Bread Franchising has planned for responsible, managed growth by building a network of intelligent, hard-working and honest franchisees who enjoy making great bread and offering quality services. Foot Solutions provides a much needed service to the rapidly growing percentage of people who experience sore and tired feet. We specialize in computer foot scanning to make custom insoles and orthotics. This advanced technology ensures a perfect fit, enabling total comfort and maximum performance. We also provide a complete line of foot care products that help the feet in every way, whether at work or at play. Schooley Mitchell is a professional B2B Consulting Franchise helping businesses make decisions about telecom services and products. We only charge the client a fee if we save them money, which makes client acquisition an easy process. Our Franchisees are independent of all suppliers of telecom – no commissions, residuals, or kickbacks from suppliers – we always look out for our client’s best interest. Quick ROI – low cash investment – revenue driven business – can be operated from home or office – Franchisees can do business anywhere in North America – ideal Franchise for executives. Our basic service, referred to as Existing Systems Review, is really quite simple. We review all the services and equipment that a business client uses to communicate. That includes cell phones, local service, pagers, long distance, calling cards, conferencing, data, internet, and more. Our clients are often not familiar with the products and services they are currently using because of the confusing environment in telecom. We prepare a professional report summarizing the services received and costs incurred. We then advise the client about how to recover overpayments and how to receive equal or improved service, for less expense. If we find ways to save them money and the client likes what we’ve recommended, the fee is an equal portion of the savings for a specified period of time! During the term of the contract with the client, we continue to evaluate their needs and will bring forward additional recommendations that create additional savings for the client and additional fees for our Franchisee. Ultimately we’re creating a recurring revenue stream with our existing clientele. Mr. Handyman is the solution to today's fix-it problems for millions of time-starved families. Our franchise caters to homeowners and commercial customers needing property maintenance and repair. American Ramp Systems, the leading U.S. Company specializing in modular steel ramps is the only national company that provides in home estimates and ramps to purchase or rent. The Sonoma Coffee Cafe system is designed as a simplified, turnkey package, offering the franchisee a cost savings of $50K-100K compared to other coffee franchisors. Since 1989, NaturaLawn of America continues to be the only nationwide natural, organic based lawn care franchise providing a safer and healthier alternative to traditional chemical lawn care services. As the original innovator of organic-based/biological products and services to the United States, we have become the recognized leader in our industry. Our exclusive and proprietary line of organic-based products addresses the increasing concern to protect and preserve our environment. This ever-growing concern about our environment provides our franchisees a unique and powerful marketing difference within the lawn care industry. The franchised business will be a lawn care service that utilizes organic-based/biological treatments instead of high soluble salt fertilizers. Your primary service will be lawn care to residential, commercial and government-owned properties. Full Pet Care including Overnight Pet Boarding, Doggie Daycare, Spa and Optional Grooming Salon Services. This system is one of the best kept secrets in business ownership today. It allows the business owner to develop a large business within a relatively short period of time with an extremely high success rate. As a leader in the wireless and satellite TV industries, Wireless Toyz is committed to offering our customers the largest variety of cellular/wireless and satellite services available in one customer friendly location, staffed by the knowledgeable and professional wireless experts. Certa Pro is North America’s largest residential and commercial painting company in a huge $100 billion dollar industry with very little competition. Certa Pro targets assertive leaders (not painters) to operate a multimillion dollar business. Franchisee focus on the business, not in the business to oversee marketing, sales, operations and profitability. Budget Blinds train’s individuals to own and operate a home-based business that sells and installs window coverings, via a well-equipped mobile showroom. Crestcom franchisees market and deliver training in the areas of sales, customer service, leadership and management development. Crestcom uses a unique combination of video instruction and live facilitation to teach these skills. Crestcom is an internationally-renowned business. The Crestcom Video Faculty has included many of the world's leading business experts, including Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Harvey Mackay, and Lisa Ford. Crestcom training works because it changes behavior, through a 12 month program with defined goals after each session. The company is active in 50+ countries and Crestcom’s materials are translated into 20+ languages. Crestcom offers a comprehensive support system for franchisees. As a Zen Massage center franchisee you will carry little to no inventory, invest a minimal amount of money and be the first in many cases in your market with the concept that everybody's talking about. At Robeks, our passion is to help people lead active and healthy lifestyles by offering a full menu of the highest quality nutritional food products and supplements. Our blended-to-order fruit smoothies, fresh-squeezed juices, healthy sandwiches, salads, soups and baked goods - and a proprietary line of premium nutritional boosts - have made us the upscale choice for healthy and active consumers in Southern California for years. Victory Lane Quick Oil Change is the most exciting quick lube opportunity in the U.S. today. Fantastic Sams is the largest full-service hair care franchise, with nearly 1,400 salons represented throughout 4 countries. Our full-service salons offer quality hair care services for the entire family, including cuts, perms and color. Being a full-service salon means our owners benefit from a wider range of revenue sources and a higher average ticket per customer than our competition. By catering to men, women and children, we do not limit our business to only one segment. Fantastic Sams is proud to have its own line of professional hair care products, available only in our salons, thus creating an additional revenue opportunity for our owners. Rated the best in the industry and one of the largest printing franchises in the world, Allegra Network links nearly 450 locations in the United States, Canada, Poland, and Japan. The company ranked 54th among Entrepreneur Magazine's Annual Franchise 500 in 2003. Allegra Network successfully operates seven brands, including its premier brand, Allegra Print & Imaging, and offers advanced printing technologies including full-color printing, graphic design services, digital color and high speed output and online file transfer. As printing sales continue to grow, Allegra Network's median sales and profits have increased over the past 10 years due to the comprehensive support its franchisees receive in the key areas of technology, operations, and marketing. It's not everyday you find business opportunities that are rewarding financially as well as emotionally. That's one of the many special things about Comfort Keepers®, one of the leading providers of in-home care for seniors and other adults requiring additional care. Comfort Keepers provides care services like meal preparation, incidental transportation, and companionship which enables thousands of aging adults the ability to remain in their own homes. Matco Tools is a manufacturer of quality professional automotive equipment, tools and toolboxes. Our product line now numbers more than 100,000 items. Our Franchisees distribute nationally branded products and are supported by a proprietary software program to assist them to professionally manage their business.<br>Matco Tools is a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), a Fortune 500 company and rapidly expanding conglomerate in many industries, including tools, environmental and industrial process and control markets. Matco began operation in 1946 and, since 1979, we have sold our products directly to professional technicians, automotive, truck, aviation and marine repair facilities through a network of independent franchised mobile distributors.<br>Our franchisees work from home and service pre-established customer bases in exclusive territories. Customer contacts are completed weekly and Franchisees enjoy a Consultive relationship with their customer bases. Matco operates in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Cost Cutters concept responds to a universal desire: to get more, pay less and save time. Our insight into customers’ needs has helped us dominate this lucrative value salon sector – making Cost Cutters an extremely strong brand and a household name. Our convenient locations make us especially appealing to busy families and men. We employ expertly trained stylists who provide current hairstyles at an affordable price without the need for an appointment. Intelligent Office is a smart new alternative to traditional offices and executive suites that combines the benefits of physical office space with the flexibility of virtual office solutions. This enables Intelligent Office customers to work from home, out on the road, or wherever else their businesses take them while promoting a polished, professional image of themselves and their businesses. Intelligent Office gives you a full spectrum of address and mail services. Office and conference rooms are available for rent by the hour, day, week or long term lease our professional telephone answering service provides business men and women with a dedicated phone line with voice mail and a receptionist to answer and screen their calls. Calls can be seamlessly connected to Intelligent Office customers putting them in the office wherever they are. Express provides a full line of staffing services (temporary, flexible, evaluation hire, direct hire, and professional/contract staffing) and HR Business Solutions to individuals and businesses in nearly 600 locations in the United States, Canada, and South Africa. Express provides a sales-focused, business to business opportunity in one of the top ten fastest growing industries in the US. Our franchise model allows you to develop a professional business coupled with the ability to maintain a balanced lifestyle and build a solid, scalable, equitable business. Our mission is to help as many people as possible find good jobs by helping as many clients as possible find good people. Express employs more than 336,000 people and serves more than 30,000+ clients annually. Navis is the leading provider of specialized packaging and global shipping for fragile, large, awkward, valuable and irreplaceable items. Businesses depend on Navis to meet their packaging and shipping needs in ways no one else can. Navis has developed a way to fill the gap between the retail mail and parcel centers and moving companies, in a niche market, with very little competition. In fact, moving companies like Nationwide, and carriers like UPS are not their competition - they refer customers with specialized shipping needs to them. This unique, B2B, company has a fairly low investment, strong margins, few employees (2 to start), regular business hours, and is in a niche market with very little competition. Maaco represents a great business opportunity in an area where there is no national competition. Maaco is the leading auto painting and collision repair franchised chain in the aftermarket industry. We hold a 47% of the lion's share of the $1 billion auto painting market and have serviced over 15 million vehicles since inception in 1972.Our chain represents 500 privately operated centers located throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Our operating system has led franchise owners to success for more than a quarter of a century. Previous automobile experience is NOT necessary. ServiceMaster Clean is a business-to-business management business where our franchise owners' employees clean business offices, health care facilities, doctors' offices, retail facilities, schools and government buildings on a daily or 2-3 times a week basis. This cleaning includes dusting, vacuuming, hard floor maintenance and carpet cleaning and maintenance. The owner is in charge of marketing and sales, pricing and quotations, customer service and administration. SERVPRO is a national leader in cleaning and restoration services. SERVPRO's niche is the insurance restoration market, which accounts for a large portion of the diversified mix of residential and commercial services. SERVPRO franchisees provide professional residential and commercial cleaning, deodorization, and restoration of premises and content damaged by fire, flood and other causes, as well as other related services.
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