Business Management Case Study; Franchisor Responsibility to Update UFOC Exhibit Pages

Many executive management teams have chosen tois no longer a franchisee.Additionally the company
use franchising as an option to grow their businessesname that they use may not be their actual name
and sell more products and services, while receivingand it will be difficult to find out who they are or
additional royalties from the franchise outlets. Eachcontact them. I can tell you, as a former Franchisor
one of these outlets must be listed in the Uniformthat it is a major issue to keep the outlets pages
Franchise Offering Circular or UFOC, as required byorganized and all the phone numbers, as they change
both Federal and some State regulatory bodies. Theand sometimes when they are being built there is no
Uniform Franchise Offering Circular are to be given tophone number yet and people with unlisted numbers
each potential franchise buyer 10 days prior tomay ask NOT to have their numbers listed for
purchase.It is very important for the Franchisorprivacy reasons, I have had many such requests,
Business Management Team to have in place abecause too many people call and the franchisee
system, which can constantly update the informationwants to have a family life and run their business not
in the UFOC exhibits, which are attached to Theanswer testimonial phone call demands, how can you
Uniform Franchise Offering Circular. Often, thereblame them.There should be NO franchisees numbers
seems to be discrepancies between information andor addresses listed in my opinion, as it is only used by
the uniform franchise offering circular and thelawyers, competitors and those who wish to hurt the
franchise agreement with what is in the exhibit pagesfranchisor. A franchise buyer should be allowed to
where the number of outlets and names andrequest in writing the nearest franchises to his
addresses of each franchisee are listed. In thepotential location once qualified and not a minute
litigation section it is not required to cross referencebefore, the franchisor should have the option to say
the exhibit pages of franchise outlets names andNO for fear that the potential buyer might be a
phone numbers, although sometimes they do notcompetitor. The franchisee can go to the locations
match. This is because a franchise in litigation mayhim self or not buy the franchise. Simple. Please
have been terminated from the franchise systemconsider this in 2006.Lance Winslow - Online Think
and is no longer an outlet and therefore that personTank forum board.