{"id":9936,"date":"2021-06-04T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:32:39","slug":"alumnus-awarded-auntie-annes-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/04\/alumnus-awarded-auntie-annes-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus awarded Auntie Anne’s franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hayden Glaubius ’21 with Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development<\/p><\/div>\n

June 4, 2021–Hayden Glaubius, a 2021 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded an Auntie Anne\u2019s pretzel franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Center for Franchise Development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say thank you to all of the judges for taking the time to be here not only today and yesterday, but for letting us do an internship so we could learn more about the business and the daily operations,\u201d Glaubius said. \u201cI look forward to it and it\u2019s an awesome opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Glaubius, a management major from St. Joseph, was one of 14 students in a senior-level Applied Business Ownership class this spring. Students in the class prepared business plans, and the two finalists presented them to a panel of judges that included Steven L. Craig, creator of the franchise competition, and other business leaders, as well as representatives from Auntie Anne\u2019s and 大象传媒 Western graduates who won franchises in previous years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glaubius first heard about the program while a student in the business program at Central High School in St. Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always in the back of my head, and I was working towards it, and now seven years later, here we are today,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThink about a kid that says \u2018I\u2019m going to play major league baseball\u2019 when he\u2019s 12,\u201d said Seth Lyons \u201908, one of the judges and winner of the first franchise competition in 2009. \u201cHe\u2019s our major league baseball player. It\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The franchise awarded to Glaubius is the 32nd store to be awarded through the program. Alumni currently own 51 stores across the country, employing more than 600 people and generating annual sales of approximately $29 million. <\/span>The program provides initial capital for the stores, which the alumni pay back over five years. The entrepreneurs also receive ongoing support from faculty members, the Craig School of Business Advisory Council, Craig and each other. Additionally, the owners are expected to donate a portion of their store\u2019s proceeds back to the University. So far, the donations have totaled nearly $280,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

大象传媒 is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i>missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a>. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 4, 2021–Hayden Glaubius, a 2021 graduate of the Craig School of Business at 大象传媒, was awarded an Auntie Anne\u2019s pretzel franchise in the latest competition sponsored by 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Center for Franchise Development.\u00a0 \u201cI want to say thank you to all of the judges for taking the time to be here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}