Book Title:
Franchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation (Hardcover)
by Stephen Spinelli (Author), Sue Birley (Author), Robert Rosenberg (Author)
Editorial Reviews:
From the Back Cover
Franchising isn’t just true entrepreneurship; it offers a unique route to rapid, large-scale wealth creation. Over 1,000,000 potential entrepreneurs investigate franchising every year, but this enormous business opportunity remains hugely misunderstood. Now, a truly extraordinary authoring team delivers realistic, start-to-finish guidance for franchisees and franchisors alike.
This book brings together the insights of the entrepreneur who built the world’s largest system of Jiffy Lube franchises, the CEO who grew Dunkin’ Donuts from 300 units to over 3,000, and the franchising expert and former director of the world’s #1 bank lender to franchisees.
Drawing on their immense personal experience, the authors provide detailed analytical tools for assessing any franchise opportunity, then illuminate every aspect of the business from both franchisor and franchisee perspectives.
They cover franchise relationship models and service/product delivery systems; financial and transaction analysis; legal issues; dynamics of the franchise relationship; going international; distributorships; licensing; and even cashing out.
- Why franchising offers immense wealth creation potential
- Assessing the possibilities-for both franchisors and franchisees
- Exploiting the franchising opportunity
- Proven analytical tools and a real plan for action
- Building and evaluating the service/product delivery system
- The real nuts and bolts: offerings, markets, real estate, control, marketing, and more
- Building better franchisor/franchisee relationships
- The dynamics of the franchise relationship
- Franchising and the law
- What both parties need to know
- Cashing out
- The “harvest” strategy-from insider’s who’ve been there
- Exploit franchising for maximum wealth creation!
- The definitive insider’s guide for franchisors, franchisees, and investors
- By experts who’ve made fortunes in franchising at Jiffy Lube and Dunkin’ Donuts
- Demystifies franchising with detailed case studies and examples
- Covers the entire business lifecycle, from identifying opportunities to cashing out
- Crucial insights for building-and evaluating-product/service delivery systems
No other book brings together an author team with this much practical insider’s expertise on using franchising to generate wealth. Sum Stephen Spinelli, Jr., who helped build the world’s largest system of Jiffy Lube franchises Sum Robert M. Rosenberg, who grew Dunkin’ Donuts from 300 units to over 3,000 Sum Sue Birley, former director at the world’s #1 franchisee bank lender.
This is franchising from the inside. Franchising done right. Franchising as true entrepreneurship-for people ready to think big, work hard, and generate real wealth.
About the Author
Stephen Spinelli, Jr. co-founded Jiffy Lube International, the franchise that revolutionized automotive quick service. He then purchased two Jiffy Lube franchises and grew to become Jiffy Lube’s largest franchisee, with 47 stores that posted 39 consecutive profitable quarters. He later served as national leader, founder, chairman, and CEO of America Oil Change Corporation. At Babson College, he currently serves as Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies, Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Division, and Director of both the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and the Franchise Institute.
Robert M. Rosenberg, CEO of Dunkin’ Donuts for 35 years, led the firm’s growth from 300 units to over 3,000. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sonic, America’s Drive-In. He is a member of the International Franchise Association’s Hall of Fame.
Sue Birley is an acclaimed scholar of entrepreneurship and a former director at National Westminster Bank, the world’s largest franchise lender. With Stephen Spinelli, Jr., she co-authored Franchising Your Way to Riches: An Analysis of Value Creation in Public Franchisors.