Franchise Rankings & Awards
Franchise Update Media recognizes the leaders shaping the multi-unit franchise industry through its annual rankings and awards programs. Four times a year, we publish lists highlighting the country’s largest franchisees by total units, the brands they operate, and where they do business—offering insight into how these top operators have built and scaled their success. Each year, we also present our MVP Awards, honoring multi-unit franchisees across several categories of excellence, along with our STAR Awards, which recognize outstanding performance in franchise development, recruitment, and responsiveness. Explore these rankings and award winners to learn from the best and brightest in the industry and discover the strategies behind their achievements.
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IFA Open for Opportunity Awards acknowledge the impact franchisees have on individuals, employees, and their local communities
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When it comes to franchise recruitment, Franchise Update's annual STAR Award winners show how it's done!
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Franchise Update Media’s 2021 Franchise Innovation Awards to celebrate franchising’s most innovative companies, game changers, and creative disruptors.
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Goldfish Swim School takes home the top marketing and branding award in the 2nd Annual Franchise Innovation Award competition
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Franchise Update Media Announces New Submission Deadline For Franchise Innovation Awards.
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Franchise Business Review's 2020 Franchising@WORK Awards is now accepting entries.
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Latest win marks the 3rd Nichee Award for the company.
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Retaining great employees is the key to success in franchising, or in any business for that matter. This is especially true in retail businesses, where your company is represented by the people who deal directly with your customers
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Arby's Named One Of The 2017 Best Workplaces For Diversity By Great Place to Work and Fortune.
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Bob Middleton heard or read something years ago that stuck with him: Wealth is built by focusing on one thing and doing it well; wealth is preserved by diversifying.
- Debbie Selinsky
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Veronica Jordan was determined to trade in her 9-to-5 desk job for something more creative and profitable. In 2012, after searching for 3 years, she came across a Facebook ad that inspired her to unleash her inner entrepreneur.
- Danielle Buenrostro
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So many good things are happening so quickly in franchising these days, it's hard to keep up (even for us!). So welcome to "Good News!" - our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, international expansion, milestones, and other positive news from franchisors large, medium, and emerging
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After working his usual 50- 60-hour week tending to his 17 Indianapolis-area Penn Station East Coast Subs stores, Rob Chinsky and his wife Linda moved both their children into their college dorms, hours away, all in one weekend.
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Social media review sites such as Yelp can provide challenges and opportunities for savvy multi-unit operators to take their business reviews and online image into their own hands.
- Jenna Oltersdorf
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Multi-Unit Franchising Conference Will Be Chaired By Guillermo Perales, the largest Latino franchise operator in the U.S.
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For years we've expected prospects to apply to an online form to generate a lead. Today, viewers are much more dynamic on their approach. Franchising.com gives viewers many ways to make the franchise connection.
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In some ways, brothers Jesse and Charles Keyser, 39 and 35, are very different, and that's good. So are their three brands--Little Caesars, Sport Clips, and Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning--which also is good.
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Multi-Unit, Multi-State Huntington Learning Center Franchisee Named One Of CNBC's 'Top Franchisees in America'.
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Arizona Sport Clips Multi-Unit Franchisees Are Selected For CNBC's 'Top Franchisees in America' Recognition and Their Brand's Own Highest Honor, The Logan Trophy.'
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When retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tim Hershberger signed on as a franchisee with Dickey's Barbecue Pit in Florida, the 30-year military veteran was already focused on the customers he knew best. And his military ties have helped jump-start his first nongovernmental venture.
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As a kid growing up in New Orleans, Yaron Goldman dreamed of owning a restaurant. "I have always enjoyed cooking, ever since I was a child," says Goldman, who grew up to become the second largest franchisee of McAlister's Deli.
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A conversation with John Metz invariably leads to all kinds of topics, peppered with opinions and pointed insights gleaned from his many, and diverse, business adventures.
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- 10,948 Reads 2 Shares
When Jon-Anthony Lui was growing up, he watched closely as his father achieved success in franchising, selling products such as real estate and insurance. But the bright young entrepreneur found his niche when he began working for Tutor Doctor, which offers one-on-one tutoring to children in the home.
- Debbie Selinsky
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Largest Hispanic franchisee Guillermo Perales earns IFA's Entrepreneur of the Year award through hard work, success, and community involvement.
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- 10,498 Reads 4 Shares
Harsh Ghai's northern California-based multi-brand business may be rooted in food and family, but aggressive growth and smart development are the cornerstones of the company's success.
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When Domino's veteran Michael "Mike" Orcutt made the switch from corporate executive to franchisee he was, he admits, a "little nervous" about how the managers of the nine Atlanta pizza stores he purchased in 1990 would welcome their new boss.
- Helen Bond
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The past five years have been tough for those in the tax business, but things are looking up and Ken Leese's positive attitude has never waned.
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teve Sager knows a good idea when he sees one. The franchise veteran championed Subway's innovative $5 footlong sandwich as a nationwide promotion and pioneered the brand's use of speedy ovens to offer customers toasted subs in a flash.
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When it comes to operating multiple brands, Craig Comer has discovered that differences can attract--profits, that is, for his two very different service brands.
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Gary Grace has spent nearly four decades in franchising and has racked up several major achievements and milestones along the way.
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