Geotech have been mining their data to outline some post-pandemic shifts in New Zealand’s retail landscape

July 2016 - McDonald’s NZ has confirmed its McDelivery service will be trialled at its New Lynn and Glenfield restaurants in Auckland.

16 January 2019 ­– Josh Bradley (17) has graduated from Hell Pizza’s ‘Active in HELL’ programme, a scheme to support youths with intellectual disab...

24 May 2024 – Franchise New Zealand is very sorry to learn of the death of Al Dunn, the former CEO of McDonald's from 1993-2004.

March 2008 - TV presenter and cover girl Mary Lambie tells us what she's learned in her new career as a Subway franchisee.

2 July 2019 - 15 restaurants planned for five-year growth period

10 June 2020 - Taco Tuesday is about to get real for Auckland urbanites. Taco Bell will open their second New Zealand restaurant in the heart of th...

17 April 2022 – New Zealand’s Hell Pizza franchise is ready to cross the ditch and open in Australia

November 1999 - For the third time in five years, the Franchisee of the Year title has gone to Christchurch, while Green Acres finally took the Fra...

February 2011 - A plan by the Auckland District Law Society Inc to launch a standard format franchise agreement has drawn immediate fire from franc...

July 2020 - Over 5 kilometres of vinyl was used to rebrand the Fastway franchise fleet to Aramex

4 February 2016 - McDonald’s New Zealand is to invest millions of dollars in a nutritional improvement programme that will see reductions in sugar,...

What do you want from a franchise, and why? How and when are you going about getting it? We look at your expectations versus the reality of owning ...

March 2013 - This article is a pure indulgence. Let's say it's about work/life balance: after spending weeks working on the latest issue of our pri...

18 June 2019 – A new survey shows that running your own business can be stressful and frustrating. How does being part of a franchise help?

January 2021 – A new report from ABC Business Sales suggests that the current business sales market is experiencing a significant gap between suppl...

Hell Pizza is continuing to leave its controversial past behind as it builds a reputation as 'champion of the underdog’.

If you think it is hard to recruit staff or franchisees at the moment, spare a thought for the businesses of Westport.

Westpac and other major banks cut interest rates again after this week's OCR drop, with likely further cuts ahead

SEP 2019 - A large number of new franchises have launched on to the New Zealand market over the last five years. Simon Lord suggests some things to...

While franchising isn’t considered valuable enough to be taught in our universities, joining a franchise and working with franchisees can be a supe...

2 February 2009 - New research into franchisors' and franchisees' confidence levels in Australia shows the importance of confident leadership.

A new survey has some lessons for prospective franchisees as well as franchisors. Dr Callum Floyd and Adrienne Heard of Franchize Consultants and S...

As the weather improves at last, some people are already having to return to work. Would owning your own business give you more of what you desire?...

14 February 2018 – Shoppers at a suburban Four Square franchise will be the first in the world to trial new artificial intelligence technology that...

March 2009 - Simon Lord looks at the opportunities and issues facing franchise buyers and franchisors in the South Island

3 February 2016 - The unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since March 2009, Statistics New Zealand said today. The trend could pose so...

Changing times have created more opportunities for franchises and franchise buyers