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Franchising has been the saviour of free enterprise for business. It has been the most                             

efficient method of chaining stores. Moreover it’s more advantageous than being in                       

business on your own, as that involves heavy investment. With the culture of franchising                           

becoming popular all over the globe, let’s know about some leading franchises around                         

the globe at present. 

 

7­Eleven 

 

7­Eleven is a pioneer in the convenience stores business and has its headquarters in                           

Texas, United States. This well established convenience store has got branches all over                         

the world, and is also leading petrol suppliers. They are the largest petrol sellers in                             

Australia. 

 

Pizza Hut 

 

Needless to say, Pizza Hut is one of the top Pizza restaurants in the world. It is a                                   

subsidiary of “Yum! Brand”, the world’s largest food company in the world. The Pizza                           

Hut was founded in 1958, and now has over 12,000restaurants around the world over in                             

94 countries. The firm was renovated in 2014 after its sales went down for two years                               

since 2012, and from then, the company never looked back. 

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Subway 

 

Subway is also an American fast food company, and its parent company is Doctor’s                           

Associate Inc. The firm concentrates primarily on salads and sandwiches, and is rated                         

among the fastest growing franchises in the world. In 2010, Subway overtook                       

McDonald’s as the “Largest fast­food chain” with 33,749 restaurants worldwide. 

 

KFC 

 

Kentucky Fried Chicken, popularly known as KFC is regarded as the second largest                         

restaurant chain in terms of sales.KFC and Pizza Hut are sibling firms as they belong to                               

the same parent company, Yum! Brand.KFC was established with the idea of                       

introducing pressurised chicken in mid­1960s. Though it had some slips in the 70’s and                           

80’s, the restaurant is a giant in the industry today. 

 

 McDonald’s 

 

The brand known for its quick service to its customer, founded in 1950 by brothers Dick                               

and Mac McDonald. Now, the firm is world’s largest hamburger fast food restaurant in                           

the world. McDonald’s has its headquarters in the United States, and now serves 68                           

million customers across the world every day. McDonald’s is the second largest                       

employer in the world next only to Wal­Mart, with 1.9 million employees. 

 

So far we saw about the established franchises around the globe and now we’ll get the                               

lowdown on some of the fast growing franchises in the world. 

 

 

 

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Hampton Hotels 

Hampton Hotels is a premium group of branded hotels that mainly targets business                         

people and leisure travellers. Hamilton hotels, in 2004 had a renovation camp around                         

the world promoting “Make it Hampton”updating at least 5 features of the hotel.                         

Currently, the Hampton Hotels group is the largest franchise in USA. 

 

Anytime fitness 

 

Anytime Fitness is a fitness gym that was opened forworking out around the clock. The                               

most striking factor of this gym is that it is open all 365 days in the year. Moreover,                                   

Forbes has listed Anytime Fitness as the fastest growing fitness club in the world.It has                               

around 2500 franchisees around the globe. 

 

Jack in the box 

 

This is a drive­through burger restaurant in America found in 1951. These restaurants                         

mainly concentrate on hamburgers, sandwiches and other snack items such as egg                       

rolls and tacos. The restaurant is on an expansion spree and is expected to increase its                               

franchises from its current 2,200. 

 

Servpro 

 

Servpro is a unique concept of franchising. The concept is based on extending fire and                             

water clean­up and restoration services. This concept is fast spreading in The United                         

States of America and is all set to capture franchises all over the world. The                             

“Entrepreneur” ranked it as the #7 bankable franchise opportunity and #1 in the                         

Restoration Services Category. 

 

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India is turning into an economic hub for Global investments and has many international                           entities embarking on the corporate scene in India. There are many other franchise                         options left and you can also smartly bank on those franchises.   

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