It has a franchising arrangement, and a web store.

Royal Mail was selling some of its branches to private companies under a franchising arrangement.

But it is putting the onus of success or failure on someone else's shoulders through an intricate franchising arrangement.

Adams switched from a trademark license of Kewpee to a full franchising arrangement in 1967.

There are two major franchising arrangements.

Expanding haulage firms, however, seem largely to have neglected the possibilities offered by a franchising arrangement.

The number of Kewpee locations dropped considerably in 1967 when the Kewpee Hotel Systems, Inc. demanded a full franchising arrangement and a percentage of the profits.

Marriott and Hilton own some of the hotels they manage, but analysts say most hotels are owned by groups of investors and operated under contract by a management company or via a franchising arrangement.

Relationships among terrorists and terrorist networks are complicated to track, Mr. Rumsfeld said, because "in many cases, they cooperate not in a chain of command but in a loose affiliation, a franchising arrangement almost."

Patents are rarely awarded for medical procedures, but Fertility & Genetics has already entered into a franchising arrangement with a group of doctors in Long Beach, Calif., and a hospital in Pasadena, Calif.

Strathclyde's chairman of highways and transport, Malcolm Waugh, has said he will give no blank cheque to ScotRail's future owners unless he gets assurances that the role of the council is written into franchising arrangements.

In an interview early last week, George Stone and Randall Katchis, the former co-owners of Julia B. Fee, said they had considered a franchising arrangement with Sotheby's, but ultimately decided to become wholly owned.

I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme.'

The restaurants are either operated by the company or more commonly under a Franchising arrangement, where the business is owned and operated by an individual to the standards set by McDonald's and with support from the McDonald's company.

In many cases companies were given exclusive licenses for the production of neon signs in a given geographical area; by 1931, the value of the neon sign business was $16.9 million, of which a significant percentage was paid to Claude Neon Lights, Inc. by the franchising arrangements.