July 2010 Archives
"I've been hungry for this title for such a long time and it is just awesome to finally win it," Grewal says. "Like any great athlete, I've been practicing and practicing and now I am going to take a day off." The finalists represented Domino's Pizza stores from around the world, as far away as Malaysia.
"Independent retailers representing Bell Canada are suing Canada's largest telecommunications company, alleging "abusive, arbitrary" business practices.
Hubspot provides a number of useful tools to evaluate a website, and I like their website grader tool.
First up are BlueMauMau, the franchisee news site, and the International Franchisor Association's site.
AAHOA, being an umbrella trade association of hotel franchisees, counts on the financial support at its trade show from hotel franchisors. The hotel franchisors know that AAHOA members are not only franchisees, but they are buyers - changing the flag happens with some consistency in the hotel industry.
Congratulations on another great trade show!
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National hotel chain La Quinta has five hotels in Connecticut and hundreds more across the country operated under the "La Quinta Inn" and "La Quinta Inn & Suites" name.
The five Connecticut hotels are: La Quinta Inn in Windsor Locks, La Quinta Inn & Suites in New Britain, La Quinta Inn & Suites in New Haven, La Quinta Inn & Suites in Stamford and La Quinta Inn & Suites of Stonington.
Blumenthal's antitrust investigation into the hotel industry has found that the call-around practice is prevalent in the hospitality industry and raises serious antitrust concerns when competitors share current pricing and occupancy information because the information can be manipulated to raise or stabilize rates charged for hotel rooms.
The agreement can be read here.
La Quinta Hotels is one 10 hotels that participate in the AAOHA Fair Franchising program.
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The high-stakes argument comes just as a long-standing shareholder agreement between Maple Leaf's two largest shareholders, Teachers and McCain Capital Corp., expired Wednesday.
Teachers has already approached prospective buyers for its stake in the consumer products giant, according to sources. On Wednesday, the pension plan said the poison pill, or shareholder rights plan, blocks it from exercising its rights.
Jeff Lefler, the Executive Director of National Bread Network, says we raised our concerns on the change in controlling shareholders of Maple Leaf Foods when the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) announced that, after a 15-year relationship, they planned to sell their 35% interest.
"We have fears that hedge funds or other investors would only have a short-term interest in the company and a hostile takeover bid may be harmful to long-term stakeholders."
