Buying a Franchise: Check Your Rights to Terminate for Good Cause
When can you end a franchise agreement early? Check the grounds for termination, deadlines for remedying breaches and consequences before you sign.
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Buying a Franchise: Check Pricing and Discounts
Who sets selling prices and funds discounts? Before buying a franchise in Germany, check pricing rules, promotions and their impact on your margins.
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Buying a Franchise: How to Assess Ongoing Fees
Which sales count towards fees, when are payments due, and can the franchisor increase them? Here is how to assess ongoing franchise fees before committing.
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Buying a Franchise: Review the Operations Manual Before Signing
The operations manual shapes your day-to-day business. Before committing, check its contents, contractual status and the limits on future changes.
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Buying a Franchise in Germany: Agree Stock Returns Before You Exit
What happens to leftover stock when your contract ends? Before investing in a German franchise, check the terms for stock returns, valuation and selling off remaining goods.
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Buying a Franchise: Documenting Pre-contractual Disclosure
What you need to know before signing a franchise agreement in Germany, and how to keep a clear record of answers, documents and outstanding questions.
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Building a franchise: how to keep your know-how confidential
Protect confidential business know-how when building a franchise in Germany, with clear access rights, suitable agreements and documented safeguards.
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Building a Franchise: Managing Purchasing and Supply Disruptions
How to organise purchasing across your franchise network, assess sourcing restrictions and prepare alternatives for supply disruptions in Germany.
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Franchise agreements: setting clear, workable territorial protection
How to define franchise territories, account for company-owned outlets and lay legally sound foundations for territorial protection in your German franchise network.
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Building a franchise network: organising ongoing franchisee support
How to organise ongoing support for your franchisees, with clear contact channels, defined responsibilities and realistic response times.
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Building a franchise: making realistic adjustments to pilot figures
A profitable pilot outlet is not enough. Here is how to adjust its figures and assess whether the concept is financially viable for franchisees too.
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Selecting Franchisees: Defining Clear Requirements
Which partners are right for your concept? Learn how to define your requirements and assess applicants consistently rather than relying on gut feeling.
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Franchisors: Listflix lists 598 companies in Germany
Listflix records 598 franchisors in Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia leads by number, while Bremen has the highest number per capita.
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Goltz Kebap plans ten more locations in Germany
Goltz Kebap reports five locations in Berlin and Cottbus and plans ten more across Germany. Its franchise profile puts the initial investment at €200,000 or more.
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Basecoffee plans 100 locations through franchising and company-owned outlets
Basecoffee aims to grow to around 100 locations across Germany. The all-day brunch concept is seeking franchise partners, joint venture partners and suitable premises.
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