Not exact matches
Franchises have a number of controls to ensure uniformity, such as restrictions on goods and services you
sell, suppliers, how you operate (hours, employee uniforms, signs, bookkeeping and accounting procedures), sales area (limited to a specific territory) and
rights to termination and resale, and renewal.
Deep Silver
sold the film
rights for the Dead Island
franchise to Lions Gate in 2011, but then nothing happened and the
rights reverted to the mothership.
That's
right, 22 years ago Pokémon Red & Green launched in Japan, introducing the world to a
franchise that'd go onto become one of the best -
selling ever.
While we still have a
right to rant about the studio's off - putting cash grab to cleave author Suzanne Collins» final volume in her best -
selling trilogy in two, «Part 2» does show off this
franchise's better side.
Franchises:
Franchises are independent businesses that operate a business of branded product or service with the exchange of fees for getting license or
rights to
sell.
Until Nintendo
sells off it's
rights to the IP, the
franchise will forever stay on Nintendo's systems.
Word on the street is that Microsoft paid less that $ 100million USD for the
rights to Gears of War, and that's a good price for a
franchise that
sells millions of copies.
The WWE
franchise is no laughing matter, and since its humble beginning it has become one of the biggest
selling sports entertainment
franchises of all time,
selling out PPV's left and
right, making movies, music and yes, video games.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ended up being a hit and became the fastest
selling game in the
franchise, despite being a port from the Wii U. It's worth noting the Wii U had a strong attach rate
right out of the gate as well, but we know how that ended up faring for them.
Final Fantasy is the biggest -
selling RPG
franchise so it's a foregone conclusion that when it branched out into other mediums it would be a huge success,
right?
When it comes to
selling e-books, the Harry Potter
franchise is far from conventional: digital e-bookstore Pottermore has been
selling JK Rowling's e-books without digital
rights protection.
Last year, the HTC One boasted its Beats Audio sounds, but since HTC
sold back its
rights to the
franchise, the One now features HTC's own BoomSound speakers.
Re / Max International has just
sold a regional
franchise for Venezuela, and recently bought back
franchise rights for South Africa.
Once an investor or a group of investors has acquired the
rights to a territory or master
franchise, they can
sell franchises within that territory.
After more than a decade at the helm of Realty Executives B.C., Gerry Frechette has
sold his master
franchise rights to Phil Roy, who now adds B.C. to his master
franchises for Alberta and Manitoba.
HomeLife has
sold master
franchising rights for Quebec to Groupe Financier HomeLife Québec Inc., in Quebec City.
After more than a decade at the helm of Realty Executives B.C., Gerry Frechette has
sold his master
franchise rights to Phil Roy, who...
Internationally, the plan is to
sell master
franchises with
rights to an entire country.
Brinkley met with Engel & Völkers founder and CEO Christian Völkers and COO Anthony Hitt about a year ago during a NAR conference in the U.S. Brinkley offered to buy the master
franchising rights for Canada, but Engel & Völkers wasn't interesting in
selling them.