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CEFA Turned Preschool Into a $2.5 Million Franchise - Here Is the Lesson Plan
Natacha Beim Boserup could not persuade existing schools to adopt her early-learning ideas, so she opened one herself. Twenty-eight years later, CEFA packages curriculum, teacher training and a premium school experience into a franchise that costs roughly C$2.5 million to C$3 million to open.
Ivybrook Academy Bet Parents Would Pay More for Less School - Then Took the Half-Day Preschool National
A former first-grade teacher saw preschool treating different children the same. Her answer was a three-hour school day, a hybrid curriculum, and a franchise model now wrestling with the best kind of problem: how to scale something built to feel personal.
Max Mara Fashion Group
Max Mara Fashion Group is a privately held, family-owned Italian luxury house founded in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti. Credited with helping create Italian pret-a-porter, the group turned industrial precision toward high-quality women's ready-to-wear, becoming best known for its camel coats and outerwear. Today it operates a portfolio of brands - including Max Mara, Sportmax, Weekend Max Mara, Marella, Pennyblack, iBlues, MAX&Co. and Marina Rinaldi - across roughly 100 countries with about 6,000 employees and around 2,300 stores, while remaining wholly controlled by the Maramotti family.