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A book published in 2011 by Rosemary Hepözden tells the story of how McDonald’s came to New Zealand and documents its first 35 years here. In this ...

May 2011 - A US body called the Coalition of Franchisee Associations has called for the introduction of a ‘Bill of Rights’ for franchisees, while a...

June 2011 - A franchisee stripped bare an Auckland gym in an overnight raid that has left the franchisors with a bitter taste

Updated 27 October 2017 - Pre-election uncertainties caused a slow-down in business confidence which extended into the post-election period. How wi...

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

Colin Taylor lifts the lid on leases in this personal view of the retail property market

December 2010 - How realistic is it for New Zealand-based franchises to dream of global expansion? Simon Lord talks to two companies on the export ...

Some sectors have been doing it tough, some have never had it so good. Which franchises are looking forward to good times ahead – and what should b...

Good franchisees are hard to find, so should they be encouraged to own more than one outlet? Win Robinson considers the issues.

October 2016 – Deirdre Watson shares three lessons on the most recent High Court cases involving restraints of trade and good faith in franchising

3 November 2021 – A new Bill has seen commercial lease abatements implied into leases as a way of requiring landlords and tenants to agree fair ren...

June 2009 - The symposium on Franchise Law Reform held at the University of Auckland brought together some of the top legal minds in franchising to...

22 January 2015 - Fastway, one of New Zealand’s best-known home-grown franchises, has been sold to a global company based in Dubai but franchise ag...

10 November 2018 ­– Business-to-business franchises proved there’s more to franchising than burgers when they took out the top titles at the Westpa...

Too many businesses decline or fail to perform as well as they could because the owners or managers lack financial skills and the ability to pay at...

In the second part of our review of the last decade in New Zealand franchising, we look at the way that systems and perceptions have changed

December 2024 - Khushbu Sundarji and Stewart Germann review two recent franchising cases involving obtaining interim injunctions. 

The following material has been provided by Employment New Zealand to help business owners and franchisors understand the impact of the changes to ...

How buying a franchise can put you in control of achieving your personal and financial ambitions

The Franchising Survey 2003 is covered in detail below. For our report on the 2024 survey, see Franchising Health Check

June 2020 – Stewart Germann and Khushbu Sundarji review lessons from three recent cases involving well-known New Zealand franchises.

December – 2022 Might some franchisors’ attempts to help their franchisees with financing, pricing or selling cause them to fall foul of some unexp...

June 2013 - Two proposed changes with consequences for franchising are currently winging their way through the legislative channels