This document discusses different types of franchising models and regulations surrounding franchising. It covers four primary franchising modes: business format franchises for products and services, product franchises, and affiliation franchises. It also discusses franchising regulations in Minnesota, including registration requirements, disclosure laws, and regulations governing the ongoing franchise relationship and termination.
This document discusses different types of franchising models and regulations surrounding franchising. It covers four primary franchising modes: business format franchises for products and services, product franchises, and affiliation franchises. It also discusses franchising regulations in Minnesota, including registration requirements, disclosure laws, and regulations governing the ongoing franchise relationship and termination.
This document discusses different types of franchising models and regulations surrounding franchising. It covers four primary franchising modes: business format franchises for products and services, product franchises, and affiliation franchises. It also discusses franchising regulations in Minnesota, including registration requirements, disclosure laws, and regulations governing the ongoing franchise relationship and termination.
This document discusses different types of franchising models and regulations surrounding franchising. It covers four primary franchising modes: business format franchises for products and services, product franchises, and affiliation franchises. It also discusses franchising regulations in Minnesota, including registration requirements, disclosure laws, and regulations governing the ongoing franchise relationship and termination.
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Franchising is perhaps one of the most widely
misunderstood phenomena in American business. Judging
from coverage in the popular media, for every story of wild success every Mcdonald’s or holiday Inn there seems to be a story of a crashing failure, or even outright thievery, all carried on under of “Franchising.” METHOD OF FRANCHISING DISTRIBUTION
Franchising appears in four Primarily modes:
BUSINESS FORMAT FRANCHISES FOR PRODUCTS BUSINESS FORMAT FRANCHISES FOR SERVICES PRODUCT FRANCHISES AFFILIATION FRANCHISES BUSINESS FORMAT FRANCHISES FOR PRODUCTS
• The franchisor does not actually produce a product But
instead dictates to a franchise how to conduct a business providing a prescribed product to consumers. BUSINESS FORMAT FRANCHISES FOR SERVICES
• franchisor does not itself actually produces or provide a
service for resale, but dictated to the franchise how to conduct a business providing prescribed services to consumers. PRODUCT FRANCHISES
• Manufactures the product
• Products produced for its account third party • Acts merely as distributor of products AFFILIATION FRANCHISES
• Is a uniquely American business phenomenon.
• The franchisor recruits into its franchise system . FRANCHISING EXPANSION
• Franchising is also used as a method of expanding an
existing business. • Franchising used as a method of expansion is an alternative means of capital formation. OTHER BUSINESS GOALS FOR FRANCHISING
• Franchising sometimes in attractive to a business not as a
primary business goal, but as a means to other ends. Franchising can be a catalyst to the achievement of other, more primary, business goals. MULTIPLE FORMS OF FRANCHISING • Franchising takes many forms. Across the primary modes of business format franchises, product franchises and affiliation franchises, franchising is found in an almost limitless variety of structural arrangements. These include • traditional single-unit retail franchises • multiple-unit franchises, and • franchises with or without exclusive or protected territories, • franchises with or without growth options or rights of first refusal • trade area franchises, mobile and home delivery INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
• Franchising can be viewed from another major
perspective that franchisee, to which a franchise may represent a shortcut to establish a new business opportunity. ECONOMIC IMPACT
• Franchising is a major contributor to the growth of the U.S
and world economies. NEGOTIATING A FRANCHISE
• While some franchises are offered on a ‘’take it or leave
it’’ form contract, most are negotiable to one extent or another. ‘’BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES’’ LAWS
• Find locations for racks or vending devices for selling the
products produced or distributed by the business opportunity buyer. • ‘’Buy back’’ the buyer’s output of goods or services produced with materials or assistance provided by the seller. • Refund the buyers payment’s or investment if the buyer becomes dissatisfied with the investment. Or the seller may indicate that a market is assured for the buyers output of goods by virtue of a ‘’marketing plan’’ to be provided by the business opportunity seller. RECOGNIZE A FRANCHISE
• Franchising is a regulated form of doing business. Under
Minnesota law, a franchisor may not offer or sell franchise until the offering is registered with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, or qualifies for an exemption from registration. Receiving Pre-Sale Disclosure
• A prospective franchisee is entitled under Minnesota and
federal law to receive compehensive pre-commitment disclosure of material investment information from the franchisor. Escaping a business relationship
• Franchises sometimes can use state franchise law to
escape a business relationship that proves to be unsuccessful or materially diffrent from what had been anticipated. Avoiding the creation of inadvertent franchises
• A business seeking to expand, or Seeking outlets for its
products or services through distributors or dealers, may inadvertently Create a franchise relationship. Statutory definitions
Recognize that the law has four essential elements:
• The ''grand'' element • The ''trademark'' element • The ''community of interest'' element • The ''franchise fee'' element Common charateristics of franchises
• This is common in some multilevel distribution schemes,
or pyramid schemes, where parties to the relationship are obligated by contract or economic necessity to recruit others into the distribution scheme in order to profit it themselves. Business opportunities laws the buyer’s investment is safe because the seller • Will find location for vending machines or racks to be serviced or stocked by the investor. • Will buy back the buyer’s output of goods produced using whatever the seller initially provided, or refund the buyer’s money if the buyer becomes dissatisfied with the deal. • Represents that the buyer will derive income from the scheme greater than what was paid for it. • Represents that a market is assured for the buyers output due to a marketing plan to be provided by the seller. REGULATIONS UNDER THE FRANCHISES
• Franchising in its current form evolved in the United
States predominantly in the 1950s and 1960s. During that period, franchising experienced explosive growth in terms of the number of companies using franchising and the number of different industry sectors in which franchising was used, and in the variety of ways that franchising was used to pursue a wide array of business objectives. Financial Conditions to Registration
• Under such an “impound order,” the franchise is required
to deposit all initial franchise fees into the prescribed escrow account under a three-party agreement between the franchisor, the bank and the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Other Contracts
• Each contract that a franchisee may be required to
execute with the franchisor or the affiliates of the franchisor must be in the FDD. This allows cautious and comprehensive review of those legally binding contractual obligations in advance of making a commitment. Material Changes to the Form Agreement
• This requirement does not apply to changes initiated and
negotiated by the franchisee, or to clerical entry of information such as names and addresses into blanks in a form contract. Negotiating a Franchise
• Franchise offering is essentially locked in to precisely that
form of agreement and that is illegal for the franchisor to negotiate the terms of the franchise with prospective franchises before signing the agreement. Additional Franchises
• A person who is already a franchisee in most cases is
also a prospective franchisee in respect to an additional franchise in the same system or even a renewal franchise offered to him or here, even if the franchisee has had a long-term franchise relationship with that franchisor already. Sales by Franchisees
• A franchisee selling its own franchise for its own account
on an isolated basis • is exempt from the registration requirement • A buyer from that franchisee is not entitled to receive an FDD before or after closing on the sale. Franchise Relationship RegulationFranchise Relationship Regulation • In addition to requiring registration and pre-sale disclosure for franchise offerings, Minnesota and some other states regulate to a limited extent the content of the franchise agreement and the conduct of the ongoing relationship between franchisor and franchisee. These regulations focus largely on the ending of the franchise relationship whether by assignment, expiration or termination Other Franchise Classifications
• Another matter that is outside the scope of this but
warrants brief mention is that Minnesota and many other states have special franchise and other related statutes that apply to a wide variety of industry classifications.