International Committee Chair and Past IFA Chair Mike Isakson and current IFA Board Member Tabbassum Mumtaz, President and CEO, Apex Restaurants Management, Inc. represented IFA at the inaugural "“The International Franchise Conference” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

With the current shutdown in Washington, Fox Business examines the problems that could arise in the franchise industry if people weren't able to get along and work together.

This week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation hosted its Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) 2013 Corporate Responsibility Conference, effectively themed The Network Effect: How Business Drives Progress. It was an opportunity for businesses and leaders of corporate responsibility to convene around a variety of issues including energy and water use, woman’s economic empowerment, nutrition, and disaster resiliency.

Entering its second week, the government shutdown continues to hurt the U.S. economy. Now, with the debt ceiling approaching, the International Franchise Association reiterates its call for Congress to pass a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal

Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing to address the future of union organizing and one particular strategy to build employee support for unionization, worker centers. Worker centers were examined

When one thinks about what a model franchise system should look like, you don’t typically need to look much further than PostNet.

The effort to pass patent litigation reform was recently reignited and has rapidly picked up momentum over the first half of the year.  The debate this Congress has a distinctly different tone from the debate over the America Invents Act, though.  Rather than the traditional industry divide of “big tech vs. big PhRMA,” there has been a broad based, cross-industry call for patent litigation reform, as evidenced by a letter to Congressional leadership from 50 trade associations stating that something must be done now.

IFA’s efforts to defeat Senate Bill 610 in California have been successful.  Last night, Senate Bill 610 was defeated for the year as the sponsor of the bill pulled the legislation off today’s California Assembly Business, Professions & Consumer Protections Committee docket when it became clear there was scant support for the bill by the Committee’s 10 Democrats and four Republicans.  

Yesterday, ADP and Moody’s released their inaugural National Franchise Report (NFR), a new barometer of the health and growth of the increasingly important franchise industry. The NFR measures the number of franchise jobs created on a monthly basis.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) presented VetFran Committee member and Founder and CEO of Sport Clips Haircuts Gordon Logan with the James E. Van Zandt Citizenship Award this week at its annual convention.