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Article: Second-generation franchisees: franchises run by the next generation can provide an outlet for their entrepreneurial energy.(Trends)(The IFA Educational Foundation)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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At a time when big box super marts are swallowing up decades-old filmily stores in many communities, franchises are offering parents a way to pass on successful community--supported businesses to their children. Today, second-generation franchisees make up about one-tenth (9.7 percent) of all franchisees.
For most franchise systems, the franchisor must consent before a unit can be transferred from one franchisee to another franchisee. About one-third (34 percent) of franchise outlets that are eligible to he passed on to a second generation are passed on from parents to their adult children or relatives. It may be that franchisors grant preferences to a ...