(FranchisePick Franchise Blog) Thanks to the readers and contributors of FranchisePick.com, our pages contain a wealth of great franchise buying advice from insiders and franchise owners you’ll find nowhere else. If you’ve got a question, post it and you might get a thorough and insightful answer, such as this one regarding the purchase of an existing Curve fitness […]
Stuart Goldman of Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro, a leading health club industry trade publication, has written an extensive and well-researched article on the struggling 30-minute fitness franchise chains and some of the powerful names that were instrumental in putting the match to this “hot new franchise” phenomenon.
I plan to look at particular points of […]
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Has Curves for Women deserted the franchise owners who built the startup into a 10,000 unit chain and global brand in order to cash in on more lucrative profit centers? That’s the contention of FranchisePick.com reader […]
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(FranchisePick.Com) In it’s article Curves sheds a fifth of its fitness centers, BostonNow Business reports that both membership and number of Curves for women franchise clubs in Massachusetts has declined significantly in the past three years. According to the article citing information from the Boston Business Journal:
“…Owned by local franchisees, last […]
(FranchisePick.Com) The woes of the 30 minute women’s fitness franchises, chronicled and debated in hundreds of franchisee comments on FranchisePick.Com, have reached the mainstream business press, including Forbes.
An article by Lisa LaMotta in the current issue of Forbes features Ricki and Matt Wilson, owners of the ill-fated Atlanta franchise of Butterfly Life. Butterfly Life is a struggling Curves […]
(FranchisePick.Com) As we begin to wrap up the first year of blogging at FranchisePick.com, I’ve made a list of the companies and posts that prompted the most comments from FranchisePick.Com readers.
#1 Snappy Auctions Franchise: 600+ Reader Comments
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Is Snappy Auctions a Great Franchise Opportunity? April 20th, 2007 - 601 Comments
#2 iSOLD IT Franchise: 590 + […]
From a recent Findley Group company press release:
Findley, former president and COO of world renowned women’s workout chain Curves, is the visionary who plotted the course for the fitness chain’s craze. Now, as the founder and chief executive officer of Findley Group, a leading U.S. franchise investment, sales and consulting firm, Findley is turning his […]
60+ Contours Express Franchise Owners Allege Fraud, Breach of Contract by Franchisor
(FranchisePick.Com) Curves for Women can be credited for setting off the fitness franchise gold rush.
In a little over ten years from the launch of their franchise program in 1995, express fitness franchise Curves for Women grew to over 10,000 locations. The consumer concept was […]
Do you own a Curves for Women franchise? Have you owned one, or know anyone who has? What are your thoughts on this franchise?
Curves For Women is one of the fastest growing franchise companies of the decade, having now topped 10,000 locations. I know in our area the concept seems to […]
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