Franchise Times ranks Home Instead Senior Care in Top 100 From Franchise Times Magazine, October 2009
According to the October 2009 edition of Franchise Times, Home Instead Senior Care was ranked 97 of the top 200 franchise companies by worldwide sales with $660M (872 total units; 604 domestic).
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Time Magazine calls Home Instead Senior Care "an international franchising dynamo" From Time Magazine, Sept. 14, 2009
In 1994, while keeping his grandmother company at his mom's house in Omaha, Neb., Paul Hogan hatched a business. Barely mobile when her children moved the 89-year-old in, Grandma Hogan, newly pumped up by attention, would live to be a lively 100. What, Paul wondered, did families without available kin do? Providing that answer has propelled Home Instead Senior Care into an international franchising dynamo that reaped $661 million last year and projects a 2009 jump to $738 million on domestic growth of 10% and 26% growth internationally.
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For Students, a Healthy Job Market Healthcare is giving many students an opportunity to pay their way through school.
By Steven Yaccino from U.S. News and World Report
While college students across the country scramble to find summer employment, Marie Getz, an art therapy grad student at Naropa University in Colorado, gets paid to sit in the living rooms of senior citizens and discuss life. As a part-time caretaker for Home Instead Senior Care, a nonmedical elderly services network, she works four days a week providing companionship to seniors and helping them with simple tasks like grocery shopping, meal preparation, and household chores. The job is far from glamorous, but it bends to fit her school schedule, giving Getz the reward of giving back while footing hefty tuition bills. "I'll have $60,000 in loans when I graduate," she admits. "If I didn't have this job, it would be a lot more."
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Franchising Helps Women Crack the Glass Ceiling From The Franchise Handbook, April 2009
Beginning with the feminine revolution of the 1960s, women have grown up thinking they could achieve just about anything they set their minds to. Singer Helen Reddy reflected the optimism of that generation with her hit song: "I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore..." But while women's contributions to the workforce are largely irrefutable, recent research indicates that their presence in the top ranks of the corporate world has been more of a whimper than a roar. David G. Thomson, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant and author of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth, reported in an April 22, 2008, USA TODAY article that only 43 women have climbed the traditional ladder to become CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies in the last 35 years.
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Franchise Leaders to Receive Top IFA Honors From IFA Franchising World, February 28, 2009
The International Franchise Association will bestow its highest honors this week during its 47th annual convention underway now at Caesars Palace. The association's top four awards will be presented to some of the most active sector leaders.
IFA is the oldest and largest franchising trade group and serves more than 1,100 franchisor, 8,000 franchisee and 400 supplier members.
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PRINCIPLE #7: Great Leaders Nurture Leaders The principle you dare not ignore if you want to succeed.
By Paul Hogan
From IFA Franchising
Most entrepreneurs don't set out to be leaders, but simply pursue a passion. They dream about ideas taking root and growing, but really don't picture themselves leading an international organization with hundreds of franchised units generating hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. And, as entrepreneurs, they struggle with the tendency to cash in successful businesses long before they get to this point.
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