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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 |
