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United
Country® Real Estate Named
To Entrepreneur’s 29th Annual
Franchise 500®
January 1, 2008 - KANSAS CITY,
MO - Entrepreneur’s Franchise
500®, the world’s first, best
and most comprehensive franchise
ranking, has recognized United
Country® Real Estate among its
2008 list of top franchises.
United Country® achieved the No.
101 overall ranking on the
Franchise 500® list, as well as
securing top rankings in three
separate sub-category lists,
including the No. 23 ranking in
the Low Cost Franchise category,
the No. 47 position for Fastest
Growing Franchise and the No. 95
ranking for America’s Top Global
Franchise.
“This recognition further
illustrates the value of United
Country®’s unique approach to
serving our franchisee partners
and providing advanced real
estate marketing systems that
differentiate our local
franchise offices in their
markets. We are honored to be
included in this prestigious
study,” said Dan Duffy, CEO.
This honor follows United
Country®’s inclusion on the Wall
Street Journal’s 2006 list of
“Top 25 High Performers,” a
study of more than 2,500 U.S.
based franchise systems.
Entrepreneur magazine has been
conducting the Franchise 500®
study since 1980. All companies,
regardless of size, are judged
by the same criteria: objective,
quantifiable measures of a
franchise operation. The
objective factors are plugged
into the exclusive Franchise
500® formula, with each
eligible
company receiving a cumulative
score. The 500 franchises with
the highest cumulative scores
become the official Franchise
500®, identifying today’s top
franchise opportunities.
United Country® Real Estate is
the only national real estate
and auction franchise system
specializing in residential,
farm and ranch, commercial,
retirement, second home and
recreational properties in small
cities and towns across America.
The company currently publishes
nine niche real estate magazines
and executes a marketing program
that attracts more than 2.4
million visitors a month to its
725 owned and operated web sites
including 925,000 visitors a
month to: www.unitedcountry.com,
the leading real estate web site
in its market. United Country®
reaches more than 90 million
homes each week through its
national advertising of
franchisee-listed properties in
various local, regional and
national print media outlets.
With a heritage that dates back
to 1925 and headquartered in
Kansas City, Mo., the company
supports 700 franchisees in 44
states and markets a national
database of properties valued at
over $9 billion at
www.unitedcountry.com.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
2820 NW Barry Road, Kansas City,
MO 64154
816-420-6200
www.unitedcountry.com |
