Franchises

Canadian retail icon Canadian Tire Corp. has bought Calgary-based Forzani Group Ltd. - Canada's largest retailer of sporting goods - for a near all-cash deal of $771 million.

Menchie's, a fast-growing self-serve frozen yogurt chain, has signed a development agreement to open 33 Menchie's franchises in British Columbia and Alberta over the next five years. The deal was entered into between Yogurtworld Franchising Corp.

For the second year in a row, CertaPro Painters, Canada's largest painting contracting company, has been awarded the gold medal for franchisee satisfaction in its category at the Canadian Franchise Association's (CFA) national conference.

U.S. discount giant Target Corp. was in court in Canada on May 2nd in an attempt to win exclusive right to use its name in Canada, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Vancouver-based Brian Scudamore aims to use his 1-888-Wow-1Day! business model to transform the house-painting industry in the same way as his 1-800-Got-Junk? revolutionized junk removal.

Priszm Income Fund - which owns 400 KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut franchises across Canada - filed for bankruptcy protection on March 31 under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and is selling hundreds of its outlets to a European franchisor.

Thomas Cook North America has launched its Canadian franchise and affiliate network, signing an agreement with Advantage Travel, which has offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, and Vancouver-based CruiseCentres that provides its affiliates "wit

McDonald's Canada, the billions-served fast-food eatery, planned to hire 4,000 new Canadian staff as part of its April 19 National Hiring Day. Fifty thousand new employees were hired in the United States simultaneously on the same day.

So far in 2011,12 new franchising rights to Realty Executives International, Inc. have been awarded and include new locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The U.S.-based company plans to open other locations across the Southern U.S. this year.

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