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Article: Outreach program enables veterans to tell their stories.(FW FOCUS: HONORING AMERICA'S VETERANS)(Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative program)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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The success of the Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative program or "VetFran" is being told by those who once served in the nation's Armed Forces. Many veterans are now turning their understanding of operating within a government system into operating a franchised business. More than 600 veterans have acquired franchises and more than 160 sales are in various stages of negotiation.
The military veterans' outreach program that was initiated in the 1990s and reinstated in 2002 under the International Franchise Association is receiving increasing media coverage in numerous news outlets. Veterans tell their stories of looking forward to the future with plans of ...