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...course, the folks at PIU have not gone into this airily. The head office worked with team-building experts for a year to devise a handbook that is to be sent to all 175 PIU franchisees around the country. For franchise owners, it's a win-win. They can usually fill their facilities with hordes of birthday-cake-fueled kids on weekends and even after school. But business sags considerably during office hours. (See pictures of office cubicles around the world...
PIU's corporate program was officially launched in December, but even before then, a few firms had taken the, ahem, leap. Since 2005, Jody Wallace, who owns a PIU franchise in Ohio, has hosted about two events a month for local divisions of Procter & Gamble, GE, Yellow Book and Ryan...
It's that time of year again. Started in 1964 as a way to fill a winter lull in sports coverage, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has become one of the most eagerly anticipated magazine issues of the year. Sports Illustrated (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc.) estimates...
Location doesn't help the company. Most of Jamba's 749 stores are in California, where the housing market is particularly harsh and where unemployment is at a 15-year high. Jamba announced plans to cut $25 million in costs for 2009, while opening 50 franchise outlets at colleges, airports...
Fifty years later, Barbie is becoming a star even in China--not to mention the lead character of a compelling business saga. It's one of unrelenting ambition that ends sadly but not unsuccessfully. Sales of Barbie, plus her carefully tailored outfits and paraphernalia, garnered more than $1 billion last...