Look up: franchising

1. Franchising
   NHS franchising involves identifying the top NHS managers and appointing them to the 'biggest challenges', whether failing trusts, key modernisation initiatives, or strategic health authorities. The 'franchise' bid for a top job will involve the management team - from the private, voluntary or publi...
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2. Franchising
   The selling of a licence by the owner (franchisor) to a third party (franchisee) permitting the sale of a product or service for a specified period. In business format franchising the agreement will involve a common brand and marketing format.
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3. Franchising
   Business format franchising consists of selling a package of marketing experience and other business assistance to franchisees, who set up a business using the trade marks or service marks and the general get up of the franchiser. The franchisee will typically have a territory within which to sell t...
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4. Franchising
   Commercial agreements allowing one business to deal in a system or product controlled by another, eg most car manufacturers give franchises to sell their cars to local garages who then operate using the manufacturer's name and corporate brands.
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5. franchising
   A special type of agreement whereby one undertaking (the franchisor) grants to the other (the franchisee), in exchange for direct or indirect financial consideration, the right to exploit a package of industrial or intellectual property rights (franchise) for the purposes of producing and/or marketi...
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6. Franchising
   commercial agreements that allow one business to deal in a product or service controlled by another. For example, most car manufacturers give franchises to sell their cars to local garages, who then operate using the manufacturer's brand.
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7. Franchising
   Provision of a specialized sales or service strategy, support assistance, and possibly an initial investment in the franchise in exchange for periodic fees.
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8. Franchising
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Franchise
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9. FRANCHISING
   A continuing relationship in which the franchisor provides a licensed privilege to the franchisee to do business and offers assistance in organizing, training, merchandising, marketing, and managing in return for a consideration. Franchising is a form of business by which the owner (franchisor) of a...
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10. Franchising
    :For Cable television franchise fee in the United States see Cable television franchise fee. `Franchising` is the practice of using another firm`s successful business model. The word `franchise` is of anglo-French derivation - from franc- meaning free, and is used both as a noun and as...
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