To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

In recent years, the idea of franchising has been picked up by the social enterprise sector, which hopes to simplify and expedite the process of setting up new businesses.

As part of the devolution process since 1997, the Scottish Executive has been given a greater role in determining the franchising of ScotRail, the Welsh Assembly Government is a co-signatory of the Wales and Borders franchise, Merseytravel ( the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority ) is responsible for Merseyrail, and the Mayor of London has some input in decisions on rail services in the Greater London area.

Due to the nature of franchising in France, the actual number of companies and joint ventures in the group is constantly changing.

The new owners of changed the name to " Quiznos " and began a franchising operation.

Immediately after visiting the San Bernardino store, Ray became convinced that he could sell mixers to every new franchise restaurant that they opened, and so he offered his services to the McDonald brothers who were looking for a new franchising agent following the departure of agent Bill Tansey due to health issues.

The company also announced it would begin licensing franchising partnerships, a new direction for the chain and its parent which had traditionally relied on expansion via company owned locations exclusively.

After the failed attempt to use the acquisition of Dan-Air, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the end of October 1992, to form a new low-cost, short haul unit within BA's mainline short haul operation at Gatwick, franchising seemed to offer the best solution for providing the level of feeder services BA needed to protect its long-haul loads and profits at Gatwick, without re-creating the complex organisation and fleet mix, and without duplicating the costly overheads of the BA mainline short haul operation at Heathrow, which did not suit the revenue environment at Gatwick.

Thereafter, the chain grew rapidly by franchising the name and taking management contracts for new hotels throughout the USA.

According to Vice President in Charge of Franchise Development, Gary Rudsinski, “ If it hadn ’ t been Craig ’ s sister, we wouldn ’ t have gone into Texas like we did .” This quote belies the current franchising strategy of contiguous growth at a pace of about 40 new stores per year as is evidenced by the concentrically expanding swath of ‘ blue states ’.

While Culver's is still regarded as a small regional chain, this expansion into new states and new areas of the U. S. represents an important development in franchising strategy as Culver's shifts its attention to developing markets beyond the Midwest.

He began franchising new locations in 1967.

A former vice president of finances at Tastee Freeze, Sonneborn approached Ray Kroc with a revolutionary new financial idea for franchising in 1955.

Beginning in the late 1980s, the Group embarked on a series of new activities in Saudi Arabia, focusing on light manufacturing and franchising, reaching beyond the Kingdom to other Gulf countries and the greater Middle East.

DeCarlo became head of a new, completely independent company, Metropolitan Blimpie ( later renamed Blimpie's of New York, Inc .), which controlled franchising rights in New York, New Jersey, and other parts of the East Coast.

In 1997 Boston City Campus opened a new division called Boston Business College and, after opening 11 colleges in Gauteng, started franchising the concept nationwide.

Eleven years after Giant Tiger's first experiment with franchising, Reid emphasized the flexibility that it gave his company: “ The weakness of the chain stores is that they try to standardize .” Such standardization was not possible in a small chain which at the time maintained its low prices by locating in awkward and non-standard spaces such as converted bowling alleys or garages, and which refused to put money into standardized fixtures or furniture, or to invest in standardized office systems.

A harbinger of the cookie-cutter " cineplex " type movie theaters that would become popular in the 1970s, a Jerry Lewis Cinema was billed in franchising ads as a " mini-theatre " with a seating capacity of between 200 and 350.

For $ 50, 000, the Jerry Lewis Cinemas offered an opportunity known as an " area director " in which the investor not only was given their own cinema, but controlled franchising opportunities in a territory.

As it was used by British Rail, the single operator before franchising, its use also maintains continuity and public familiarity ; and it avoids the need to replace signage.

Some historians and secondary school textbooks concur that A & W, which opened in 1919 and began franchising in 1921, was the first fast food restaurant ( E. Tavares ).

This represented a previously unheard-of acceptance by the FA of American style sports team franchising, and the decision was universally criticised.

Gatwick Express was the first portion of British Rail's InterCity sector to be converted into a separate train operating unit, ready for franchising as a private business with the assets transferred to Gatwick Express Limited ( legal name Gatwick Express Limited, company no 2912338 ) in March 1994.

This was one of America's first franchising agreements.

As the soft drink's first independently owned bottler, owner Sam Houston Prim was given first choice of franchises when franchising of Dr Pepper started in 1925 and, instead of a larger area, chose to formalize an existing, smaller territory, which has remained unchanged.

When the SRA was abolished in 2006 franchising were taken over by the Secretary of State for Transport.

In addition, the profit motive was diluted when some of the passenger franchises ran into financial trouble and entered into management contracts with the franchising authority, which reduced the incentive to innovate.

HEMA was the company to introduce franchising in the Netherlands.

As a result of Burger King's actions, Hungry Jack's owner Jack Cowin and his company Competitive Foods Australia, began legal proceedings in 2001 against the Burger King Corporation claiming Burger King Corporation had violated the conditions of the master franchising agreement and was in breach of the contract.

After pulling back from expansion and franchising efforts in the 1980s, the business was divided up by the Olivieri family.

This was so successful this then led to an extension of the franchising out in the form of recruitment of the then University system.

Quickly is the brand name of Kuai Ke Li Enterprise Co. Ltd., which was founded by Nancy Yang in Taiwan and started franchising.

The company was founded by Leonard Shoen ( L. S. " Sam " Shoen ) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and expanded through franchising with gas stations.

The chain at one point was owned by Ramada Inns, Inc., a holding company created by Isbell to oversee Ramada's various divisions including hotel operations, franchising, real estate, and equipment purchasing.

The visual Identity of Mellow Mushroom Pizza was defined during their early franchising phase by Atlanta artist Buddy Finethy.

The second round of franchising in 2004 saw train the “ One Railway ” franchise owned by National Express take over although this was renamed National Express East Anglia in 2008.

Hot ' n Now was founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1984 by William Van Domelen and began franchising activities in 1987.

Commercial leased access did not provide cable subscribers with a diversity of information as it was required, because it was avoided and never mandated by local franchising authority.

India is, however, one of the biggest franchising markets because of its large middle-class of 300 million who are not reticent about spending and because the population is entrepreneurial in character.

In 1987, the Culvers were approached about franchising a restaurant in nearby Richland Center.

“ We are very excited about Jamba and the potential growth opportunities available to the company as it extends the brand through licensing and franchising opportunities ,” said Andrew Heyer, managing partner of Mistral Equity Partners.

A few years later, the franchising well on its way, about 300 hotels were independently owned and only about 38 were still company-owned.

In the 1980s, the Magli company developed a franchising retail network which led, in about twenty years, to around 40 " franchises ", strewn around Europe, America, Japan, China and other Asian countries, and Australia.