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Discover how combining two common lending facilities—the SBA 7(a) loan and an equipment lease—creates an uncommon yet viable strategy for financing your franchise business with NO collateral required.

Pet Wants has landed a new investor and partner, the Franchise Funding Group, to help the Cincinnati-based pet food company develop a national franchise system. Michele Hobbs started Pet Wants in 2010 ...

A.J. Jafrey, founder and owner of Scoops N’ Scoops in Irvine, already had many of the elements needed to operate a franchise. He’d worked in a few franchises that his extended family owns, and he has ...

When a customer buys something at Taco Bell, they’re asked if they’d like to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar. They’re told it helps support their employees’ education, but of course, ...