UN English Text Part 1
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Text 1
June 12, 2015
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith
You are cordially invited to a formal dinner in honor of Abraham Gold on July 20 at 8 p.m. at the Bolton Hotel.
As you are an associate of Mr. Gold, we would like you to speak briefly about his work in the Lumber industry if this is possible, please let me know within the next week.
Please note that this is a black-tie event, RSVP with the names of the those attending by July 14.
Sincerely yours,
John Kussack
Chairman, Social Committee
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The Trade Ministry is preparing a franchise business roadmap as a guide to help small to medium firms top into international market.
Trade Ministry's director for enterprise development said on Thursday that the ministry had organized several meetings with the country's franchise association while designing the roadmap. The document, she said, would explain several aspects of business development.
"We are aiming for the roadmap to be available in 2016." said the Trade Ministry director.
In the past two years, the trade Ministry has assisted more than 400 would be entrepreneurs interested in franchise businesses. However, only 20 percent of them were ready to get started. The recent data from the Indonesia Frenchise Associated counts 698 franchise business in Indonesia, with 63 percent being local and 37 percent foreign in 2015. The association has 23,844 listed franchise outlets in the country.
The data also shows that franchise business turnover reached Rp172 trillion (US $ 12 billions) in 2015.
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