About
Mission Statement
The World Franchising Network is committed to helping individuals in their quest for self-employment and business ownership by providing them with the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the maximum number of legitimate franchise systems and service providers. We feel strongly that the operating and systems advantages provided by franchising make it the preferred avenue for 95% of those people who want to go into business for themselves.
Our Stakeholders
Our stakeholders are today’s prospective and existing franchisees, franchisors, law firms, consulting firms, accounting firms, service providers and entrepreneurs, who, as a group, make the franchising industry what it is and, more importantly, what it can become.
About the World Franchising Network
With its extensive product line of books, internet websites, databases and consulting services, the World Franchising Network is the pre-eminent provider of reliable, up-to-date and easy-to-use information on franchising.
Publications include:
1) Bond’s Franchise Guide provides detailed profiles on over 1,000 North American franchisors, as well as information on leading franchise attorneys, consultants and service providers. The profiles are divided into 30 industry types, broken down into subsectors;
2) Bond’s Hottest New Franchises provides detailed profiles of over 300 North American franchisors that have less than 50 operating units and which provide great potential for entrepreneurial franchisees;
3) Bond’s Top 100 Franchises provides a rigorous analysis of the 100 top franchises in the food-service, retail and service-based industries. Selected from the 2,500 available franchise systems, these companies were evaluated on the basis of historical performance, brand identification, market dynamics, franchisee satisfaction, level of initial training and on-going support, financial stability and other key factors;
4) The Minority Franchise Guide provides detailed profiles on over 450 companies committed to the inclusion of minorities in their systems. The book also provides relevant resources for the minority investor;
5) “How Much Can I Make?“ provides historical sales, expense and/or profit data on actual franchise operations, as provided by the franchisors themselves. This “insider’s guide” includes 106 recent earnings claim statements for 29 major industry categories;
6) Bond’s International Franchise Guide provides detailed profiles on a broad range of international franchisors, attorneys and consultants/service providers. Included franchisors are specifically looking for international partners;
7) Tips & Traps When Buying a Franchise provides an insightful overview and road map for prospective franchisees.
For detailed profiles on these books, as well as other books about franchising, see our Bookstore.
Internet websites include:
www.worldfranchising.com - the Internet’s most comprehensive and up-to-date portal on franchising. The subsidiary sites (noted below) of resources and sortable databases cover all major segments of the industry.
www.100topfranchises.com - lists detailed information on the top 100 franchises with over 50 operating units; companies were evaluated on the basis of historical performance, brand equity, market dynamics, franchisee satisfaction, the level of initial training and on-going support, financial stability and other key factors.
www.hottestnewfranchises.com - the Franchise Directory on HottestNewFranchises.com lists detailed profiles on more than 300 North-American franchisors that have less than 50 operating units and which provide great potential for entrepreneurial franchisees.
www.minorityfranchising.com - a sortable database that includes a detailed listing covering 50 fields of critical information on over 450 North American franchisors who actively seek out and support minority franchisees, as well as related resources.
www.franchisingattorney.com - a sortable database that includes detailed profiles of leading North American attorneys who specialize in franchising, as well as related resources.
www.franchisingsuppliers.com - a sortable database that includes detailed profiles of leading North American franchise consultants and service providers, as well as related resources.
www.franchisingresourcecenter.com - lists over 80 books and proprietary in-depth industry reports, over 300 recent earnings claims statements (Item 19s), a detailed database (24 fields of data) of over 2,400 North American franchisors and over 20,000 current and archived Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars (UFOCs).
www.ufocs.com - a database of over 20,000 current and historical Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC) documents available for sale.
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