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When Hachemi Aliouche wants to exercise, he uses the Planet Fitness in Portsmouth where he's been a member for several years...Planet Fitness is a winner in his book and Aliouche thinks it has huge potential beyond the 325 franchises it expects to have open by the end of this year.

Avis Budget Group and lodging firms gained market value while the restaurant sector slipped, according to a third-quarter study...from the Rosenberg International Center of Franchising at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

“Economic conditions have continued to improve in the United States and overseas, and it has become generally expected that the end of the current recession is near,” said Hachemi Aliouche, associate director of the Rosenberg International Center of Franchising at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

Foster's Daily Democrat - The Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index lost 11.6 percent of its value in the first quarter of 2009, pulled down by struggling financial markets.

UNH Franchise Index Falls 11.6% in first quarter

Original Publication Date: 06/08/2009
Foster's Daily Democrat - The Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index lost 11.6 percent of its value in the first quarter of 2009, pulled down by struggling financial markets.

UNH Media Relations - "By March 9, 2009, financial markets, as proxied by the S&P 500 Index, had dropped a shocking 25.1 percent from the beginning of the year, wiping out almost 15 years of gains. Most firms' share prices, including the components of the Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index, lost a large amount of their market value," said Hachemi Aliouche, associate director of the Rosenberg International Center of Franchising...

UNH Media Relations - Choice Hotel International topped the Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index..."Economic conditions worsened sharply this quarter with mounting job losses, tight credit, crumbling consumer and business confidence, declining consumer spending and business investment, falling home prices, and slumping exports.