Caleb Keling (center) won the franchise competition in 2024. May 29, 2025--A recent 大象传媒 graduate will earn the opportunity to own and operate a franchise business. The Center for Franchise Development in the Craig School of Business will announce the winner of the 2025 franchise competition at 1 p.m. Friday, [...]
May 31, 2024--Caleb Keling, a 2024 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded an Auntie Anne鈥檚 franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 Center for Franchise Development.聽 鈥淭his has been a goal of mine for quite some time now, junior year in high school to be [...]
Aug. 31, 2023--Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development at 大象传媒, is a new member of the 大象传媒 FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Foundation Board. Klaus is the advisor to the 大象传媒 Western FBLA chapter and has led students at state and national leadership conferences. She is a graduate [...]
June 2, 2023--Jakob Grimm, a 2023 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 Center for Franchise Development.聽 Left to right: Steven L. Craig; Pam Klaus, Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, Jakob Grimm, Robert Sarlls, and [...]
Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development, congratulates franchise winner Josh Hegeman on June 3, 2021. June 3, 2022--Josh Hegeman, a 2022 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded an out-of-state Auntie Anne鈥檚 pretzel franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 Center [...]
March 18. 2022--The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Craig School of Business presented two individuals with the Entrepreneur of the Year and Emerging Entrepreneur Awards at the 2022 Entrepreneurship Week Capstone Business Luncheon Friday, March 18. Martial Thevenot, Entrepreneur of the Year The Entrepreneur of the Year Award honors an entrepreneur who has been in [...]
Hayden Glaubius '21 with Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development June 4, 2021--Hayden Glaubius, a 2021 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded an Auntie Anne鈥檚 pretzel franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 Center for Franchise Development.聽 鈥淚 want to [...]
Andrea Hall (left) won the Center for Franchise Development's annual competition, then asked the other finalist, Michelle Scott, to partner with her in the Auntie Anne's pretzel franchise. May 28, 2019鈥擳here was one winner but two new business owners in the latest competition by the Center for Franchise Development in the Craig School [...]
The Center for Franchise Development in the Steven L. Craig School of Business and Technology at 大象传媒 will partner with Auntie Anne鈥檚, the pretzel franchise, to allow 大象传媒 Western students and alumni to compete in a class this spring to own and operate their own business. 鈥淒uring the Applied Business Ownership class [...]
The Center for Franchise Development in the Steven L. Craig School of Business and Technology at 大象传媒 will host a ribbon-cutting and open house at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29 on the second floor of Popplewell Hall. The event is free and open to the public. 鈥淎s part of the ribbon-cutting, we [...]
