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Cruise Planners Corporate Office

Cruise Planners

Cruise Planners was founded in 1994 by current CEO Michelle Fee and two other travel industry co-founders in Coral Springs, Florida. Fee had already worked as a successful travel agent for many years. She and the other co-founders wanted to share their knowledge with others.

Today, Cruise Planners is America’s largest home-based travel agent franchise. The company currently has 1,000 franchise owners. Agents work from home selling travel packages such as cruises, land-based vacations, travel insurance, car rentals, and equipment rentals.

The company offers in-house financing to cover most franchising costs as well as special incentives for veterans.

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Cruise Planners is listed as #3 on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Franchises.

Dunkin’ Donuts Dipping into Customer’s Pockets Lawsuit Says

In a class action lawsuit filed Monday in state Superior Court in Hackensack, New Jersey, Dunkin’ Donuts is accused of ripping off their New Jersey customers by collecting sales tax on food items that should not be taxed, such as bottled water and pre-packaged coffee.

With more than 400 locations throughout New Jersey and New York, the lawyer who is representing a couple from the Fort Lee area states that Dunkin’ Donuts has overcharged customers to the tune of about $4 million. Lawyer Zachary Liszka and co-counselor Carl Mayer, have also filed a similar lawsuit in the state of New York. The lawsuit claims that, all charges combined from both states, totals about $14 million in illegal collection of fees over the past 3 years.

In an email statement from the company, Dunkin’ Donuts states that all of the approximately 1,000 stores in these two states are owned by franchisees, whom the company expects to comply with all federal and state regulations, including the collection of taxes. The company claims that they are trying to reach out to all of the franchisees in the light of this lawsuit to determine whether or not the proper taxes are being charged.

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The lawsuit states that all of the locations continue to charge tax on these items, in spite of customer complaints and exposure in both the media and social media sites.

It appears that even though Dunkin’ Donuts has been made aware of these illegal tax collections, they continue to do so, sticking it to their customers and dipping into their collective pockets. This must certainly be leaving a bad taste in the mouths of many customers, some of whom state that they have been complaining about this for several years.

Source: Asbury Park Press

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freshbenies Corporate Office

freshbenies

freshbenies was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team Reid and Heidi Rasmussen. After The Affordable Care Act was passed, the Rasmussen’s believed that health care was getting too complicated for the average person. They founded freshbenies, which is a non-insurance way to naturally lower health care costs.

The company sells memberships that offers subscribers medical advice over the phone, medical and dietary questions answered by email, discounts on eyewear, prescriptions, and dental services. The company also offers basic legal services and roadside assistance.

freshbenies is listed as #117 on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America. The company has a 3 year growth rate of 2,999% and annual revenue in 2014 of $3.5 million. The company has 16 employees with 14 of these jobs being added in the past 3 years.

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freshbenies is also listed as #9 on the Inc. list of Top Health Companies, #9 on the list of Top Dallas Companies, and the company takes the #10 spot on the list of Top Texas Companies.

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Even the Power of the Force Can’t Help Disney

After Disney just posted their biggest profit ever, much of it thanks to their new “Star Wars” movie, you would think that Exec’s would be on top of the world. So why is has Disney stock dropped 4% in after hours trading? Imagine, if you will, these initals: ESPN.

This mega-entertainment company posted their numbers on Tuesday and they are impressive; $1.63 per share for the quarter that ended January 2, 2016. This is an incredible $2.9 billion and far above industry analysts expectations of $1.45 per share. Much of this, of course, is due to their movie The Force Awakens, which has grossed $2 billion around the world, not to mention revenue from merchandising and licensing. In fact this Burbank, California, based company made $1 billion in profit last year just in their movie division.

So what is dragging down Disney stock? It’s Disney’s television division, of which ESPN is king. Although Wall Street is aware that Disney earns about $6 for every cable subscriber, the channel is very expensive to maintain. It’s the cost of ESPN that has investors jumpy and has caused a 6% drop in profit at Disney’s television division, the only division in this mega-corporation to lose money this quarter.

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It’s programming costs that make this channel so expensive. When you consider that NFL games cost $1.9 billion each year, NBA games run $1 billion, and college football a cool $470 million, it’s easy to see how those numbers add up. Add to these costs the fact that ESPN lost 3 million subscribers last year alone and this mega-channel doesn’t look quite as rosy. Fewer subscribers means less revenue to pay for the games people want to see.

To get ESPN’s financial house back in order, Disney plans to get into less heavily bundled channel setups which many cable companies are now implementing. When cable customers want to cut costs, sports is often one of the first things that get sliced out of the family budget. The company is also considering offering their channel through internet based-TV channel companies such as Sling-TV and Apple TV.

Almost all cable companies, including Time Warner and Viacom, have been hammered lately as subscribers cut the cord and turn to other entertainment options such as Hulu and Netflix. Although Disney is one of the most diverse corporations in the world, with toys, movies, theme parks, merchandising, clothing, and television channels, Mickey is still viewed as a whole, not individual sectors. In this case, as ESPN goes, so goes Donald, Pluto, and the whole gang. Not even The Force can contend with Wall Street investors when they get the jitters.

Source: Time

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Max Interactive Corporate Office

Max Interactive

Max Interactive was founded in 2011 by current CEO Cameron Moore. The company designs protective cases and accessories for iPads, Chromebooks, most brands of laptops, and other popular mobile devices. Max Interactive also designs special cases and holders for those with special needs or design requests.

Max Interactive is listed as #106 on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America. The company had a 3 year growth rate of 3,233% and annual revenue in 2014 of $4.8 million. The company currently has 8 employees with 6 of these jobs being added in the past 3 years.

Max Interactive is also listed as being # 10 on the Inc. list of Top Consumer Products and Services Companies as well as taking the #10 spot on the Inc. list of Top Los Angeles Companies.

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