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Franchisee’s Journey Leads to Culinary Innovation

Meet Stefan Pickerel — franchisee, chef, spice blender and now the corporate chef for the Spice & Tea Exchange. Stefan’s journey holds some important lessons for franchisees and franchisors across the industry.
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Highlighting International Women’s Day

Women are forces to be reckoned with, and every March their outstanding achievements are recognized during Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month was created as a way to revise a written and social American history that has largely ignored the contributions of women.
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Eileen Huntington Wins IFA Entrepreneur of the Year

First presented in 1992, this award is given to an individual who exemplifies the “entrepreneurial spirit” that franchising represents. Huntington Learning Centers CEO Eileen Huntington and her husband Ray opened their first location in 1977.
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