On Veterans Day 2011, the International Franchise Association launched an industry-wide campaign, Operation Enduring Opportunity, to hire as team members and recruit as franchise business owners 75,000 veterans and military spouses, plus 5,000 wounde

A new report from the IFA prepared by Franchise Business Review shows over 64,000 veterans, military spouses and wounded warriors have started careers in franchising, including 4,314 new veteran franchise business owners, since 2011 through Operation

The International Franchise Association has been recognized by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and PR News, the media and marketing industry trade publication, for Operation Enduring Opportunity, IFA’s industry-wide campaign to

Bogota, the stylish capital of this stunning Latin American country, is perched 8,000 feet above sea level, at a much greater elevation than mile-high Denver or the highest peak in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro. According to reports from the U.S. Franchise

Jim Amos, president and CEO of Tasti D-Lite, told CNBC that franchises were the real heroes of the US economy, read the full story from Yahoo Finance on the heroes of our economy below.



Franchise owners and small businesses are the real owners of th

Catherine Monson thought leaving her friends and family behind in Southern California in 2009 to assume the role of FASTSIGNS International CEO would be the hardest venture she would ever endure.  But as Catherine assumed the identity of Louise and w

John Turner spent 12 years in telecommunications for the Army, and then a few more working in management positions for companies like NEC Global and Cisco, according to an article by the Washington Post.  All along, he knew he wanted to eventually be

Kansas City, Mo. (January 31, 2012)- Sport Clips Haircuts today gave the Veterans of Foreign Wars a check in the amount of $450,000 for Operation Uplink™, a program that provides free “talk time” to deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members via

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Teenage twins, Anita and Ashley Lee, thought they were at  Kentucky Fried Chicken in Gaithersburg to box up care packages for their mom’s  unit in Afghanistan. But the care package they cared about most, walked right  in. There wa

Dina Dwyer-Owens, Chairwoman and CEO of The Dwyer Group and former IFA chair, will appear on CBS’s hit show “Undercover Boss,” on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT. 

Dina accepted the opportunity to go undercover within the Dwyer Group to exp