In September 1991, Citybus started to operate one franchised route on Hong Kong Island, becoming the fourth franchised bus company in Hong Kong.

In 1991, the Hong Kong Government awarded Citybus its first franchised route 12A ( Admiralty Tamar St <> Macdonnell Rd ) on Hong Kong Island, which was originally operated by China Motor Bus and then withdrawn in the 1980s.

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

As of 31 December 2006, Delhaize Group had a sales network ( which includes directly operated, franchised, and affiliated stores ) of 2, 705 stores and employed approximately 140, 000 people.

Car makers and local distributors sometimes regard grey imports as a threat to their network of franchised dealerships, but independent distributors don't mind since more cars of an odd brand bring in money from service and spare parts.

ESPN Zone is a Southern California-based chain of two sports-themed restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios that are currently franchised, but formally owned by the American cable network ESPN.

Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform news titles based solely on network affiliation, U. S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts ; some title their newscasts utilizing the station's on-air branding ( such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word " News "), others use franchised brand names ( like Eyewitness News, Action News and NewsChannel ) for their news programming.

EBS has more than 400, 000 members and distributes its products through a branch and franchised agency network.

Million Air is a network of both franchised and corporate owned or managed FBOs in North America and the Caribbean and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

It has a corporate network in the UK and franchised operations include Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Lebanon, Jordan, Malta, Kuwait and Portugal.

Volvo Rents ( Volvo CE Rents, Inc .), is a US company that rents construction equipment to contractors and retail consumers through a network of company owned stores and franchised locations.

The business has 35 owned and franchised outlets throughout the UK and Ireland and serves around four million meals annually.

These are mainly franchised from the University of Glamorgan and University of Wales, Newport.

Pizza Pizza () is a franchised Canadian pizza fast-food restaurant, mainly located in the province of Ontario.

Nintendo's limited role of development was mainly isolated to ensuring that it was a worthy title for the established franchised.

As of first-half 2009, the MTR has a 42 % market share of the franchised public transport market, making it the most popular transport option in Hong Kong.

The Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( 1933 ) Limited ( KMB ; ), a company of the Transport International Holdings Limited, is the largest franchised bus operators in Hong Kong, and one of the largest privately owned public bus operators in the world.

For its franchised service in Hong Kong, KMB operates a fleet consisting of about 4, 000 buses on 399 routes and employs a staff of over 12, 000.

On 9 May 2012, KMB withdrew all its remaining non-air-conditioned buses from service, from then on all the franchised bus routes in Hong Kong were operated solely by air-conditioned buses.

KMB is the first franchised bus company in Hong Kong that achieved the following:

The New Lantao Bus Company ( 1973 ) Limited ( 新大嶼山巴士 ( 1973 ) 有限公司 ) – known as New Lantao Bus, or NLB – is a franchised bus company operating in Hong Kong.

On 1 April 1974, New Lantao Bus Co .,( 1973 ) Ltd. became the third franchised bus company in Hong Kong.

The last non-air-conditioned buses were removed from service on 9 May 2012 when the last four KMB routes were converted to fully air-conditioned bus services, thus ending the service of franchised non-air-conditioned buses in Hong Kong.

It marked the arrival of Citybus as a franchised bus company serving Hong Kong Island routes.

In 1996, with the Tsing Ma Bridge coming into operation and commencement of settlement in the Tung Chung new town, Citybus won another tender to operate 13 new franchised routes serving Tung Chung and the new Hong Kong International Airport.

NWS Transport has since re-dominated the franchised bus services on Hong Kong Island.

Citybus is the second largest franchise bus operator in Hong Kong and provides franchised bus services on Hong Kong Island and to and from Hong Kong International Airport.

In Hong Kong, it is the first franchised bus model made outside United Kingdom and countries of Commonwealth of Nations.

NLB was formed in 1973 through the merger of three bus companies operated by residents of Lantau Island, and became the third franchised bus company on 1 April 1974.

Two of the routes operated by the Star Ferry are franchised.

More than 20 franchised bus and public mini-bus routes pass through or stop at this road.

* a number of franchised vans and multi-cabs also ply the Isabela-Lamitan, Isabela-Maluso routes

With petrol buses especially, routes were sometimes set up in competition with street railway companies by often-illegal entrepreneurs, looking to skim the franchised companies ' fares and profits.

In May 1997, with the Tsing Ma Bridge coming into operation and commencement of settlement in the Tung Chung new town, Citybus and Long Win Bus ( subsidiary of KMB ) started to operate new franchised routes serving Tung Chung.

In 1993, Citybus took over 28 franchised routes from China Motor Bus after winning a competitive tender.

A further 14 franchised routes were awarded to the company in 1995 without tendering, with the fleet now expanded to more than 500 buses.

Meanwhile, competitors such as Citybus had successfully lured passengers from CMB's franchised routes to their own residential routes.

Those franchised bus routes provide connections between the pier and other areas in Hong Kong.

In the twelfth century a borough was founded ( 1190 ), and Saltash became the only franchised seaport between Dartmouth and Fowey.

Initially based on the iconic staff of the wandering prophet, the Alien Staff ( 1992 and its variant, 1992 / 93 ) was designed to mediate conversation between aliens ( the juridical term designating all immigrants whether of legal or illegal status ) and the franchised population of an urban environment.

There is automatic promotion between Championship and Championship 1, but since 2009 promotion between the Championship and Super League has been on a licenced, or franchised, basis.