Franchise companies, which are publicly traded, as a group have routinely outpaced the S&P Index and others. Why are public franchise companies worth considering as an investment and what do you need to know to evaluate them? Very soon we will be giving you the info and tools you need for your decision making. Come back again soon and please fill out the questionnaire below.

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Kids and Pets: Still Popular - Part 1, April 2006
Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX: THI), the popular Canadian-based coffee-shop chain, made an impressive debut last month with its highly promoted initial public offering. Investors gobbled up Tim Hortons stock, pushing the shares well above the set price. The company has around 300 restaurants in the United States, compared with more than 2,500 in Canada.

Kids and Pets: Still Popular - Part 1, April 2006
Alberto in January agreed with Regis to spin off its chain of almost 2,500 Sally Beauty professional hair care salons. The Regis deal would have separated out Alberto's consumer products business, which accounts for about one-third of group sales, from the salon business. But Alberto abandoned the deal after Regis issued two profit warnings. Alberto shareholders would have had a roughly 55 percent stake in Regis. This fiscal year will be Alberto's 15th consecutive year of record sales and earnings. In January, the company reported a 5 percent rise in first-quarter net earnings to $52 million.

Kids and Pets: Still Popular - Part 1, April 2006
Hyatt, the hotel group owned by the billionaire Pritzker family, will be in a position to launch an initial public offering by the end of the year, according to the company's chairman and chief executive. Hyatt would be compliant with Sarbanes -Oxley rules for quoted companies by the end of 2006, following a three-year restructuring and consolidation of the family's hospitality investments on a single balance sheet. A Hyatt float would bring the group into line with the rest of the global industry, which is dominated by quoted operators such as Marriott, Starwood and Hilton Hotels Corporation.

Own The Franchise, Own the Stock - Part 1, October 2005
Everyone knows that a franchisee is far more likely to succeed than an independent business owner. But now we're about to reveal to you that franchise companies that go public are also more likely to thrash the competition. Public franchises enjoy many advantages over both non-public franchises and public non-franchises, but not every franchise is ready for an IPO. In this issue we speak with Prof. Steven Spinelli from Babson College and Jeff Rosenfeld from Kessev Finance to get their views on publicly traded franchises.


Own The Franchise, Own the Stock - Part 2, October 2005
A franchise company can gain many benefits from going public - liquidity, the ability to raise capital, prestige, greater perceived value in the marketplace, and the ability to make acquisitions using stock. We know that big publicly traded franchises out-perform their non-franchise counterparts, but what about a the little guys? Franchises that are only a few years old or have modest revenues might assume they are out of the game. The fact is, armed with the right information and a little help, anyone can go public. In this issue we continue our insider's view of taking a franchise public as we speak with James Cassidy of Tiber Creek Corporation.

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