HEAL GROUP CLAIMS OF SKILLED FRANCHISING REFUTED BY FACTS

During the last year of the Allied Brands collapse, the defrauding of franchisees was assisted by the Heal Group Company, who paid cash to ABQ executives in order to sell shops on their behalf in the over saturated Brisbane market.

The Heal Group has now got the same kind of deal with Urban Burger, one of a dozen new burger bar franchises being touted in Australia.  The failure rate of this kind of business is extraordinarily high - in some cases more than 85% of these shops fail in the first two years due to high costs, crippling franchisee fees, and lack of a viable business model.

The current pricing of a new Baskin Robbins franchise since management was assumed by the US-based Dunkin Brands dropped to the $200K range from what the Heal Group was expecting - Heal Group still has a non-performing location in Morayfield for sale at $385,000, down from the original $440,000 it was demanding.  Current pricing of Baskin shops across Australia is now $220,000 or less, with Dunkin rightfully pointing out that a franchise company business model should not require the sale of shops for more than they cost to fit out.  The Heal Group shop at Morayfield is already proven to be a dog, but that doesn't stop them from hoping for a victim they can offload it on.

The Heal Group is one of the current group of "rogue franchisors" who sell franchises with fast talking salespeople, flashy promises, and in this case a has-been basketball player "celebrity"  - the exact formula that collapsed Allied Brands and their has-been footy player   Shane Radbone.  Heal often touts his American NBA experience, when in fact he was a bench player with lousy stats and a failed NBA career.  And Shane Heal like his mentor Shane Radbone is focused on his "motivational speaking career", an activity that doesn't take kindly to executives from corrupt companies.


Urban Burger is destined to fail.  Potential franchisees should run, not walk away from this disreputable Gold Coast-based company.  

"SHANE RADBONE" NOW MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER LAUGHINGSTOCK AT 7-ELEVEN AUSTRALIA

SHANE RADBONE CHEATING LITTLE CHILDREN
AND POCKETING THE CASH?

Shane Radbone, the CEO who was directly responsible for the criminality and ultimate collapse at Allied Brands Ltd (ABQ) has seen his reputation collapse as a result of his the corrupt operation of Allied Brands.  


Hiring errors at Australia's 7-Eleven company saw him appointed to the COO position at this company.  Reportedly their HR department didn't check his CV before recommending him, and they've now discovered their error.  7-Eleven franchisees however have been having a field day with emails circulating among them about his actions at Allied Brands and elsewhere.  He's 7-Eleven's biggest inside joke!


Likewise Radbone has seen his speaking engagements dry up as word of the Allied Brand's exploits become widely known.  Even many of his former Adelaide friends are steering clear of these people.  Shane and his wife Victoria Elise Radbone have still failed to pay back what many believe was a fraudulent loan to purchase Allied Brands shares, which of course are now worthless.  With interest, now approaching $1M.  About 1/3 of the cash missing from this company. 


Shane Radbone, in desperation, has hired an internet consultant in an attempt to mask his past.  The consultant has persuaded Radbone to put the same "self-promotion" website up under different web addresses, in the misguided idea that this will fool Google to show only these fraudulent, positive results.


As anyone knows, Google's smarter than Shane Radbone.  In fact, a used tampon is smarter than Shane Radbone.  

EX-MACCA'S CEO COMPARES BASKIN ROBBINS PROFIT MODEL TO THE BANKRUPT KRISPY KREME

23 year veteran of McDonalds Australia, Merrill Pereyra, has warned punters away from Baskin Robbins in Australia, comparing the failed profit model at Krispy Kreme donuts to Baskin Robbins in Australia.


STORY IS HERE


He points out the same issues franchisees in Australia have had over the years - "The franchise model must be geared to sales sustainability and supporting the franchisees to gain a return on investment as soon as possible"


A completely contrary condition to the current Baskin Robbins franchisees around the country.   

DUNKIN BRANDS ATTACKS INCOME OF AUSTRALIAN SHOP OWNERS BY KILLING CUSTOM BASKIN ROBBINS CAKES

Several Baskin Robbins franchisees have been gobsmacked with the order from new USA management that they will shortly be unable to produce custom ice cream cakes for their customers.  This is being done to push the sale of factory pre made cakes shipped to Australia by Dunkin Brands from their factory.


The sale of custom cakes has been much of the income for many shop owners in especially in regional areas right around the country.  


The factory cakes are said to be impersonal and carry higher profits for Dunkin and lower profits for the shop owners.    This would look to be the new face of the brand management; stripping more from the franchisees to compensate the investors of this now public company in the USA.  Dunkin has been raising prices to the franchisees in the USA at both Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins despite supplier pricing cuts.  Venture capital companies are still stripping money from the battlers and giving it to the under taxed rich people in the USA AND Australia!

DUNKIN BRANDS USES AMERICAN-STYLE TRICKS AGAINST THEIR LONG-SUFFERING BASKIN ROBBINS AUSTRALIA FRANCHISEES

While most Australian Baskin Robbins franchisees breathed a sigh of relief when the Allied Brands (ABQ) criminal enterprise went pear-shaped last October, many are now writing that Dunkin Brands (DNKN), who are operating the chain now directly from the USA, are proving just as ruthless at stripping money from the franchisees for product costs.


While some imported supplies have dropped slightly in price, ice cream pricing now direct from Dunkin has not declined despite the removal of Allied Brands from the supply chain, and the Australian dollar rising from 85 cents to now over $1.07.   With Dunkin now a public company in the USA (DNKN on the NASDAQ), their first report to the market, issued in part to paint a "rosy" picture and jack up the share price, discussed the massive profits being made in markets like Australia.


And with a business model that didn't work for most franchisees under Allied Brands, most expected some relief from the price paid to Dunkin directly for what used to come from a third party.  And if this isn't enough, Dunkin is now running a PR campaign to jack up the price further to Australia and other markets!


US franchisees have been given a report similar to that given to Coldstone franchisees that supposedly "justifies" the massive price increases.   This report has been refuted by most in the ice cream business, but clearly international locations like Australia, supplied directly from the USA, are going to get the worst of this mess.


The same issues that confounded Allied Brands (ABQ) are now in play with Dunkin - now a public company, with majority Ventura Capital owners who are using the public entity to cash-out big.  The same Venture Capital vultures that so thoroughly trashed the world economy two years ago.

They should go to hell.












With the Australian Baskin Robbins now trying desperately to grow the franchise numbers under the pressure of these Venture Capital criminals, it's hard to see how the 15 years of bad history and their disinterest in profitability are going to result in new Australian shop owners.

7-11 MANAGEMENT DISCOVERS THEIR TRAGIC MISTAKE WITH SHANE RADBONE, AS DOES TIMEZONE WITH TONY CAVANAGH

SHANE RADBONE AT HIS NEW JOB

Former Allied Brands Ltd. (ABQ) CEO Shane Radbone and his wife Victoria Radbone have continued to shun the repayment of their close-to MILLION DOLLAR sweetheart loan made to them while he was CEO.  Yes, essentially he signed-off on a loan to HIMSELF.  Radbone has been confronted with this ABQ larceny by franchisees at his new employer, 7-Eleven Australia and some of the 7-Eleven franchisees.  Radbone has already made some moves to erode 7-Eleven franchisee profitability, the same job he had at ABQ which resulted in the collapse of the company.  Anger has mounted with 7-Eleven CEO Warren Wilmot apparently shouting mad at HR Manager Michael Phillips who was charged with "checking Radbone out".  Something he now has discovered.  


Likewise one of the key "black hands" in the destruction of Allied Brands Ltd. was Tony Cavanagh.  Cavanagh too was able to secure another position on the other side of the continent in Perth, where he found a company too ignorant to run even a cursory check on his bonafides.  The LAI Group has brought Cavanagh in to fuck over the businesses of TimeZone franchisees, who are facing a virtual collapse of their business not unlike the video biz.   


Both of these men are the subject of active criminal investigations at ASIC and the ACCC for their actions in the collapse. 


One other "black hand" is reported to be hiding out in Fiji, attempting to stay out of the public eye in the hope he won't also be the subject of criminal indictment.  Investigations into this report continue and some further information should be available soon.

NEW PERTH SKANKS MOVE IN ON ALLIED BRANDS SHELL - CREDITORS TAKE IT UP THE ARSE - THE FIX IS IN WITH STILL NO ACCOUNTING FOR THE MISSING MILLIONS STOLEN FROM ABQ

Vincents Accountants, the "independent" administrators of the collapsed Allied Brands Ltd., (ABQ), yesterday allowed a reorganisation bid from Perth solicitor Roger Steinpreis to move forward. "NO" voters claimed the meeting was "rigged" with many of the creditors failing to show after a continual stream of scheduled and cancelled meetings by Peter Dinoris.

Steinpreis, name partner at Steinpreis Paganin lawyers, are known purchasers of ASX "shells" for which to back in a new company, many in the resources business. Steinpreis, along with cohort Richard Poole, is oft described as "less than reputable", to be kind. Much of the Steinpreis proposal (Blueknight Corporate Pty. Ltd., directors Steinpreis and Paganin) hinges on MORE capital raising for ABQ (a company that has allowed previous capital raising to disappear into director pockets) with the plan to use the money to SUE the billion dollar parent of Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Brands! Steinpreis and associates also control another virtually failed ASX-listed company, Apollo Consolidated Ltd. (AOP).  Once these shares were worth .50, now they're less than a penny at .006.  More business genius at work!

One reading of this blog which catalogues the day-to-day criminal activities of Allied Brands over the last several years has lawyers around the world collapsing in fits of laughter at the thought of such an action. Even with two of the henchmen in this ABQ fraud machine canned by Blueknight (Lachlan McIntosh and Peter "I'm outta money" Graham), the chance of any legal actions against Dunkin' Brands being successful is absurd.

So you've got to wonder what's really going on when one group of dodgy investors (Blueknight) replaces another (Allied Brands), with the cooperation of the administrator (Vincents).