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OPPORTUNITIES ✓FRANCHISE Looking for your next franchise opportunity? Have we got the tools for you! Find April 27–29, 2016 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas CONFERENCES Multi-Unit ✓ Franchising Conference 2016! It’s time to mark your calendar and start planning to attend the annual Multi-Unit Franchising Conference. This year’s MUFC is from April 27–29 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The charity golf tournament the day before, on April 26, at the Arroyo Golf Club at Red Rock, means fun in the sun for a good cause. Last year’s attendance topped 1,300— including more than 550 franchisees who accounted for more than 12,000 operating units, more than $8.5 billion in annual revenue, and provided jobs for more than 100,000 people. Meet your peers, explore new brands, and soak up the educational sessions. Need a further reminder? Take a peek back at the 2015 conference at multiunitfranchisingconference.com ✓ONLINE Multi-Unit Community Grows Check out our community-based website for multi-unit operators. It’s your exclusive look into the world of multiunit franchising, your one-stop shop to find: • New brand opportunities • Exclusive interviews • Networking opportunities • Operator profiles • Online edition and archives • Financing resources www.franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees ONLINE VIDEOS ✓NEW EmpireBuilders.tv Expands Great entrepreneurs build great organizations. They possess a knack for making smart business decisions, building great teams, and creating successful companies. But as we’ve learned from years of interviewing successful multi-unit franchisees, they’ve also struggled, doubted, and made more than a few mistakes—yet they’ve soldiered on, persevered, and ultimately come out on top. To provide a deeper sense of their journeys, insights, and personalities, we’re selecting franchisees from our most inspiring print interviews and creating a new series of online videos of these franchisee leaders. We call them Empire Builders. www.franchising.com/empirebuilders 24 articles on companies, concepts, industries, trends, and profiles—and search our features. Find franchisors looking for multi-unit franchisees, area reps, and area developers. Search by top opportunities, alphabetically, investment level, industry, state, and more at www. franchising.com RANKINGS Check out our annual ✓ rankings of top franchisees and their multi- unit brands and find out “who’s on first.” This issue has our annual Multi-Brand 50 rankings. For the Multi-Unit 50 rankings go to franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees/ mu50.html. To see the Mega 99 rankings, go to franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees/mega99.html. ✓PUBLICATIONS “Don’t just survive, thrive!” Franchise Update Media’s 2016 Annual Franchise Development Report, and the best-selling book, Grow to Greatness by top franchise consultant Steve Olson, offer invaluable tips for franchise sales success and unit growth in today’s economy. To order, visit franchising.com/ franchisors/afdr.html and franchising.com/ franchisors/growtogreatness.html. ✓QUICKLINK For a one-click link to articles in this magazine and to past issues of Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine, visit franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees BOXING WORKOUTS TRANSFORM LIVES “Title Boxing Club is more than just helping people get back into an old pair of jeans or develop a six-pack. It’s more about transforming lives by creating a healthy and sustaining lifestyle.” —Bryan Scott, former NFL linebacker who operates 2 TITLE Boxing Clubs in Atlanta. MULTI-UNIT BUYER’S GUIDE 2016 mubg2016_frontmatter(2-26).indd 24 4/6/16 10:56 AM