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By Valerie Tort

Franchising is a way to maximize profits in less time. Franchising is the growing trend in the Philippine business industry. Fast food chains, bakeshops, and even clothing lines are part of the rising franchise business popularity in the country.

Franchise business is another option for those who would like to convert and expand their small-scale business into a large-scale industry. Franchise system may be hard on the budget at first due to the franchise fee and the percentage of royalties the company gets but as the business continues, the entrepreneur would understand why franchising is more profitable and successful than establishing his own business. Here are some reasons why.

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By Valerie Tort

Philippine business franchise is one of the most convenient ways to establish your own enterprise. Let Mang Inasal Philippines win your heart in the franchise business as it captured the taste of the Manileños.

Chicken Inasal business boomed several years ago due to its distinct and flavorful taste that passed the discriminating choices of the Filipino diners. Chicken Inasal is not just an ordinary barbequed chicken dish that gives the fresh-from-the-grill taste but also incorporates the achuete oil that spells the difference to other recipes. While the chicken was grilled, it was brushed with the achuete oil, the secret mix and spice for the chicken inasal.

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By Valerie Tort

For budding and experienced entrepreneurs with high spirits, Fruit Magic can be another choice for your own business since the Filipino people are more health- and nutrition-conscious these days. Let Fruit Magic be your cup of comfort and success towards a fruitful and successful business.

In a country flooded with fatty junk foods, low nutrition snacks, and sugar-laden drinks, Fruit Magic fills in the nutrient deficiencies of the Filipino people. Fruit Magic promotes wellness and health with every glass of fresh fruit shake and bottle of soy milk served to the customers.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

In the Philippine business arena that is characterised by cutthroat competition and unpredictable economic condition, perseverance will make a business stand out. And inidividual strength and determination will make the entrepreneur stand out the everyday challenges of business.

Leni Adriano, the woman behind Tacomio, spelled these ideas out when she retold to Magnegosyo.com her entrepreneurial story.

Tacomio started as La Salsa, a Mexican snack bar in E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave., in Quezon City. in 1997.

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Success stories of big companies may sound passe. But when successful companies scatter their entrepreneurial victory to budding businessmen, the story becomes more than interesting, it becomes doubly inspiring. Such is the story of Philippine Seven Corporation who continues to bring Filipino entrepreneurs to the limelight as partners in the growing network of convenience stores — the 7-Eleven.

As testament to its robust growth, Philippine Seven Corporation now has 285 stores, of which 110 are franchised stores.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

Baking bread to create an enterprise of Filipino taste at its finest is what Julie’s Bakeshop has in its ovens.

The first Julie’s Bakeshop stood in Mandaue City in January 1981. The woman behind the bakeshop chain, Julie Gandioco decided to put up the store to meet the growing demand for bread in her canteen in a rattan furtiture company.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

Innovation is one of the main ingredients for a successful business. However, it may be risky to put up a business in the untested market but when the business formula proved to be a hit, the success is sweeter. This, in a capsule is the story behind Ice Monster - the monster on the business of iced desserts.

With Ice Monster, the delicious possibilities are endless. The iced dessert mainly consists of ice shavings made more exciting by a variety of toppings such as mango, starwberry, brownie fudge, cookies and cream, blueberry and peach, choco banana, buko pandan, kiwi, Japanese kakigori, coffee jelly, mango pomelo, aloe honey, peanut, red grapes, saba langka, choco waffle, and taro red bean.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

Franchising has been a buzzword in the business community. Budding Filipino entrepreneurs who already have the capital to start an enterprise include franchising in the roster of its business options because of the tried and tested formula that runs the franchise business.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) defines franchising as a method of doing business where the buyer (the franchisee) runs a business by using the system and trademark of the seller (the franchisor).

The DTI noted that the franchise investment generally includes: franchise fee which ranges from P200,000 to P4 million, depending on the product or service of the business and the store or outlet set-up; marketing study; store design and layout assistance; training programs; leasehold improvements (outlet construction); equipment and signage; pre-opening marketing expense; and pre-opening supplies. It added that the recovery period of investment ranges from six months to three years.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

A problem can sometimes be transformed into an opportunity. For Aquabest, the problem of getting safe drinking water from the faucet turned out to be an opportunity to handle the business of providing the best source of water.

“We saw the problem of water, that people cannot depend on it for drinking. We saw the need for people to have access on the present technology of producing healthy pure water,” Aquabest Chief Executive Officer Carson Tan told Magnegosyo.com.

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By Carina Roncesvalles

Most Filipinos are well accustomed to the brands that they use that sometimes, they say the brand name first before the commodity that they need. In a sari-sari store, a buyer would ask for “Colgate” when he actually meant toothpaste. In the case of Internet cafes, Netopia has proven to be the “Colgate” in the market.

Starting with only four computers in its first branch in Katipunan Avenue using P100,000 initial capital, Netopia now has 180 branches, including four branches in Bangkok, Thailand. From this network of Internet cafes, 96 are company-owned while 84 are franchises.

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