{"id":6006,"date":"2012-04-13T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2013-07-26T19:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:20:51","slug":"the-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-top-100","title":{"rendered":"The Top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time every year, <strong>Franchise Direct<\/strong> publishes its very own <strong>Top 100 Global Franchise rankings<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a huge undertaking, so please show your appreciation to the team at Franchise Direct-both here in the US, and across the pond in the UK, by checking out their comprehensive report.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-top-100-global-franchises\">franchise reports<\/a> in the past, and it&#8217;s once again my pleasure do so now.<\/p>\n<p>But first, I want to make sure you know about the eligibility requirements for these 100 franchises;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Franchises must operate businesses in two or more countries. The exact rankings are compiled by collating a range of data, including information self-reported by franchises, FDD documents, SEC filings, published industry sources, on top of other information pertaining to the financial state of the franchise<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you ready to see what the Top 100 Franchises are?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisedirect.com\/top100globalfranchises\/top100globalfranchises2012\/158\/1432\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6005\" title=\"the franchise direct global 100 for 2012\" alt=\"franchise direct 2012 top 100 franchises\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture100.png\" width=\"159\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-2568962-10570509\" target=\"_blank\">Are you at risk of losing irreplaceable files? Onsite backup is not enough. Choose the Carbonite Online Backup Service!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lduhtrp.net\/image-2568962-10570509\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time every year, Franchise Direct publishes its very own Top 100 Global Franchise rankings. It&rsquo;s a huge undertaking, so please show your appreciation to the team at Franchise Direct-both here in the US, and across the pond in the UK, by checking out their comprehensive report. I&rsquo;ve pointed out their franchise reports in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[678,255,856],"tags":[857,858],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-franchise-trends","category-franchise-direct","category-the-top-100","tag-2012-top-global-franchises","tag-franchise-direct-rankings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Top 100 &#8212; The Franchise King\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Top 100\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-top-100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Top 100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Top 100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-top-100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Franchise King\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-13T02:07:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-07-26T19:20:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture100.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joel Libava\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Joel Libava\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b560fd324f6df9be52ac875e631beb66\"},\"headline\":\"The Top 100\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-13T02:07:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-26T19:20:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Capture100.png\",\"keywords\":[\"2012 top global franchises\",\"franchise direct rankings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"2012 Franchise Trends\",\"franchise direct\",\"the top 100\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2012\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thefranchiseking.com\\\/the-top-100\",\"name\":\"The Top 100 &#8212; 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