CHD Expert North America and FRANdata Announce Partnership to integrate FRANdata’s franchise operator data into CHD Expert’s Easy2FIND platform This integration will link both individual and multi unit restaurant franchise owners with the chain locations they own, giving industry suppliers end-to-end visibility and access to 90,000 Franchisees nation wide. (Chicago, IL – March 15, 2017) […]
Salt Lake City, UT, November 14, 2016 – Celtic Bank is integrating FRANdata’s proven franchise scoring system (FUND Score) into their franchise portfolio management system. This integration ensures that both franchisees and franchisors who do business with Celtic Bank will benefit from franchise loans that are administered faster, are more transparent, and most importantly, adapted […]
When submitting loan packages to the SBA to obtain loan guarantee numbers, lenders need to determine if the loan meets affiliation standards. Franchise loans must meet both general borrower and franchise-specific affiliation tests. Most franchisors applied for and obtained franchise-specific eligibility approval. All a lender had to do was go to the SBA’s online pull-down […]
Kate Zhang Senior Research Analyst In ranking the top franchises within the lawn care and landscape industry for Landscape Management, we began by defining the universe of brands that will be evaluated. FRANdata is the only company that collects information on every franchise brand operating in the United States (3,500+ active franchise brands, 6,000+ total brands) in […]
The Most Credit-Worthy Brands in Franchising What makes a franchised business credit-worthy? The FUND report measure a franchise brands’ credit risk by analyzing key performance indicators from a credit risk perspective. Based solely on public information, it bridges the gap in a lender’s due diligence: where once they could closely assess only a borrower, now […]