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Two, I did not have any baseball business expertise and would be responsible for overseeing a Major League franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

"We actually wholesale or franchise to over 75 different countries," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Hasbro, which owns the franchise, issued a statement saying the posts by DHS were made “without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The last installment of the franchise, Grand Theft Auto 5, was released in September 2013 and became one of the best-selling games of all time.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers’ franchise operation in Iowa.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Our own A.I. policy preference is that the government should unplug it, then repurpose gigantic data centers into the biggest Chili’s franchises you’ve ever seen.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026

After a decade of acquisitions and expansions by Spencer, Sharma is cutting output and focusing on key franchises she thinks have room to grow, like “Elder Scrolls” and “Halo.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

By 2014, the stand he’d built with $1,100 had become the Midwest’s largest privately owned restaurant company with 4,000 employees and no franchises or outside investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The original series first aired in September 1966, and has since grown into one of the most influential science fiction franchises.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Accommodating their innumerate help, the larger franchises now have cash registers which have pictures, on the keys, of the items ordered and automatically add on the appropriate tax.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Stores are all owned and operated by Casey’s, not franchised, which means no royalty or franchise fees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

He has also cited Greater Manchester's bus operating model, in which private bus firms bid to run services franchised by the local transport authority, as a possible model for regulating the water and energy sectors.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Mavis, based in White Plains, N.Y., offers tire services and general automotive repair across its more than 3,600 owned and franchised shops around the U.S. and Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Analyst Brian Harbour believes Yum offers some of the strongest growth potential among large franchised restaurant companies, yet the stock’s current pricing fails to reflect those advantages.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Instead of the franchised blandness of American cities, Alexandria is a city of mom-and-pop stores, all with signage screaming for attention, their wares encroaching on the streets.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Jersey Mike’s founder, Peter Cancro, began working there at age 14, bought the business in 1975 and started franchising the chain in 1987.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

He is also franchising his intellectual property, creating other products such as a card game inspired by "Exquisite Corpses" while holding talks with video game developers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

The franchising company, which has a portfolio of restaurants with over 2,200 locations globally, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Collective protest has been complicated by consolidation, franchising and acquisitions, making it ever more difficult to even figure out who to protest and how.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025

There are plans to open a Fresh Brothers in the Chicago area and begin franchising in other states by March, Majewski said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024