of thesis "Legal aspects of franchising" Author: Ondřej Anděl Faculty of Law, Charles University Keywords: franchising, fracnhise contract, franchisora, franchisanta This thesis is about legal apsects of franchise contract, because in czech legislation has no legal regulation of franchising. Franchise contract is a complicated and comprahansive relation between franchisor franchisant and missing legal regulation can cause a lots of problems in fracnhise relation. This thesis describes the most important costitution, which have to be in every franchise contract.

The theme of the thesis is Franchising as a form of company development. The main aim of the work lies in the development of the franchising business model and its procedure that would be applicable to any other company. Another goal is to design the individual process steps and measures to ensure the proper functioning of the whole franchise system.

Diplomová práce se zabývá aspekty podnikání franchisingových společností. První část práce se zabývá zařazením franchisingu v rámci podnikatelských sítí, charakteristikou subjektů, které se věnují a působí ve franchisingu a dále popisu potravinářského odvětví v ČR. Další část je zaměřena na konkrétní aspekty podnikání ve franchisingu, tedy na výběr franchisora franchisantem, podnikatelský plán, financování tohoto plánu a náležitostmi franchisingové smlouvy.

The diploma thesis contains a description of the situation in franchising in the Czech Republic. The main part is focused on a franchising system and future strategy of the project Hračky Modré z nebe. It presents the company Eltsen a.s. which wants to realize the project in the future, its historical development and current situation. The thesis describes the way which the company would like to choose to be able to realize whole project.

V diplomové práci jsou popsány specifika řízení lidských zdrojů ve franchisingu. Jsou zde uvedeny reálné příklady firem Yves Rocher a Subway. Z těchto praktických znalostí a pomocí teoretického základu jsou vyvozeny tři druhy strategií řízení lidských zdrojů ve franchisingových systémech. Jeden z těchto modelů je aplikován na společnost Pompo, která se připravuje na podnikání pomocí franchisingu. Jsou zde rozpracovány jednotlivé činnosti personálního managementu. V práci je také navržen franchisingový balík, který by měla společnost Pompo nabízet jako součást franchisingové licence.

The aim of this diploma theses has been to assess the advantages, disadvantages, restrictions and opportunities of making business in the franchise system. This theses has been created in cooperation with concrete entrepreneur.

This diploma thesis is focused on a franchising business establishment, particularly on the business establishment of a fictive coffe house which could become a well known franchising concept on the Czech market. Primary advantage of franchise compared to the other types of business cooperation is mainly risk reduction for the investor (franchisee) who obtains proven model of the business. For the franchisor the franchise means an easier way how to widen his business without taking higher lability. The main reason for choosing this topic is an attractivity of this field. Correct preparation and serving of a cup of coffee is not an easy process and there is not a big number of coffee houses and restaurants which can offer such a coffee. By offering high-quality and delicious coffee at user acceptable price our company would like to achieve its objectives and be a successful. The primary objective of this diploma thesis is to analyse and define strategy, mission, vision, marketing activities, product strategy and price policy of a new coffee house. These factors should be used for successful enter to the market. Secondary objective is to determine necessary initial capital, planned costs analysis and investment rate of return.

This theses treats the question of business activities development of the company Adam Rujbr Architects s.r.o.. The company provides a complex range or architectural services including design and engineering and their aim is to be a respected, reliable and comprehensive service supplier. Based on analyses of the relevant company business information I have suggested a solution of further company development. My proposal includes suggestion of collateral business activities using a franchising model for run network of a multipurpose apartments.

The aim of this thesis is to propose the expansion plan of selected company through the creation of franchise chain. Before processing a franchise plan, I have prepared - based on a literature review - a structure of individual documents of the franchise package. As a part of practical research, I analyzed the external environment using STEP analysis as well as the case studies of one competitor, and further I analyzed the internal environment of the company using primary data obtained during the controlled interview with the owner of the chosen company. Based on the above mentioned information, I elaborated a SWOT analysis and - using the defined strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats - I determined the strategy for the expansion of the company consisting in selling of franchise license. This strategy is divided in two parts: the first part concerns the expansion within regional and district towns. In this case, the franchisor considers granting a licence to franchisees who will open always three appropriately allocated small business premises in order to achieve a minimum monthly revenue of 900.000, - CZK. Over 5 years, i.e. from 2016 to 2020, the franchise prospectus counts with the acquisition of five franchisees; each of them has to establish three business premises in the selected geographical segment. Gross franchisor profit of the franchise chain amounts to 1.284.457, - CZK for the five years. The thesis focuses on this part of the expansion strategy. The prediction of annual costs, revenues, profits and cash flow of franchisee is a part of the franchise prospectus. I derived a gross profit of a franchisee in the first business year amounting to 1.719.496, - CZK, while the return on investment for the franchisee takes 2 years and 7 months. The second part of the strategy proposes the expansion to the capital. In order to achieve the highest possible turnover, it is useful first to expand the current business concept to the counter sale including seating space with several tables. Given that this form of provision of community feeding is connected with stricter legislative requirements such as the need of sanitary facilities for the guests, the concept must be first validated by the franchisor during a pilot operation.

The aim of this thesis is to determine possibilities and conditions for extending the concept of franchising in the foregn market and develop a project of establishment of the chain process in the selected country. For the practical part I addressed Czech franchising chain. First, I analyzed the conditions for its extension chain and then I analyzed the conditions for entry to the selected country. In the last part I elaborated a project proposal for the entry of franchising chain Švejk restaurant to the Slovak republic.