Alvarez, Marc Joshua L.

FRANCHISING November 20, 2017

201411230 Prof. Cypress Macapagal

1. Where do you think franchising started?

Franchising actually began in the United States in the mid-1800's with Albert Singer and the
Singer sewing machine. Albert Singer used franchising as a means of distributing his sewing
machines throughout the United States. He is credited as the first franchisor in the United
States and the first to develop a franchise contract.

2. Who is Thomas Whitmore Benjamin Franklin?

During the Civil War, Whittemore served as chaplain of the Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteers, and later with the Thirtieth Regiment, Veteran Volunteers. After the war was over,
he settled in Darlington, South Carolina. He served as delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1867 and was elected president of the Republican State executive board in 1867.
He founded the New Era in Darlington. He was elected to the State senate in 1868, but resigned
before the session to take a seat in Congress. He served as delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1868. Upon the readmission of South Carolina to the Union, Whittemore
was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 18,
1868, to February 24, 1870. He resigned, pending the investigation of his conduct in connection
with certain appointments to the United States Military and Naval academies. He
was censured by the House of Representatives on February 24, 1870, following his resignation.
He presented credentials of a second election to the same Congress on June 18, 1870, but the
House declined to allow him to take his seat.
During increasing violence by Red Shirts, paramilitary insurgents who worked to suppress black
voting, in 1870 Whittemore was elected to the State senate. He served until 1877, when he
resigned. Democrats had regained power in the state legislature and began to pass laws to
restrict voter registration and reduce the civil rights of freedmen.
Whittemore returned to Massachusetts, settling in Woburn where he became a publisher.
He died in Montvale, Massachusetts, on January 25, 1894. He was interred in the Salem Street
Cemetery, Woburn.
3. Who is Ray Kroc?

Born in 1902 to parents who were Czechoslovakian immigrants, Ray Kroc rose from humble
beginnings --including stints as a paper cup salesman and jazz musician -- to become one of
Time's "Most Important People of the Century" by building McDonald's into the most famous
and successful fast-food restaurant in the world.

4. What is IFA? Its purpose?

International Franchise Association is the world's oldest and largest organization representing
franchising worldwide IFA works through its government relations and public policy, media
relations and educational programs to protect, enhance and promote franchising and nearly
733,000 franchise establishments that support nearly 7.6 million direct jobs, $674.3 billion of
economic output for the U.S. economy and 2.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

5. FOD stands for?

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