| Ian Gillespie! Our City columnist previews a stage production by and about homeless women
Further expansion by the NHL would be horrible because there are too many teams already. That said, there are markets that probably deserve an NHL team. What the NHL should do is admit that teams in certain markets -- such as Atlanta, Nashville and Florida -- have failed, and relocate them while keeping the league at 30 teams. Unfortunately, I guarantee the NHL will expand again because the owners can now charge $300 million for a new franchise, and the greedy owners will do it eventually in an effort to line their pockets while continuing to water down the league. Then they wonder why scoring and TV ratings continue to go down. The bottom line is the reason the NHL has struggled is because the people who run the game, the owners, continue to put short-term profits ahead of the long-term good of the game.
Kiwi Storage Company Franchises Operation NZ Wide
In a first-ever for a Kiwi-owned storage company, Smartbox has announced it will franchise its operation throughout New Zealand. Developed specifically for the New Zealand market by entrepreneurs Jonelle and Steve Phillips, Smartbox takes the traditional self storage concept to a new level, with a business and residential focus that delivers custom-designed mobile storage units straight to the home or office. .
P.B. Loco gets new name, new menu
TUPELO - OK, so maybe gourmet peanut butter didn't catch on after all.
But Joe and Hollie Moffatt think gourmet coffee - along with more food choices - will fare better at their restaurant in the Renasant Center for IDEAs business incubator.
In February, the couple opened a P.B. Loco franchise, one of six in the nation. It was the first in the South for the chain, which was tapped by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the fastest growing franchises in the country.
And while the Moffatts enjoyed initial success, there just wasn't enough return business to justify continuing with the concept.
"The problem was that the peanut butter was made in and shipped from Minnesota," Joe said. "The shipping costs were outrageous, and we had to keep our price points higher than we wanted ...
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