Question: Two Men And A Truck is a franchised moving company, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, Franchising is the practice of the right to use a firm's business model and brand for a prescribed period of ?

Context articles: Two Men and a Truck
Gentle Giant Moving Company
Business model pattern
Aspen Dental
Mary Ellen Sheets
List of pizza franchises
MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery
College Hunks Hauling Junk
Statute of Limitations in Ireland
Franchising

Two Men And A Truck is a franchised moving company, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, with franchises in 41 U.S. states, as well as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland.
 The company is the largest franchised moving company in the United States with more than 410 locations.
Gentle Giant Moving Company, Inc. is a national moving company based in Somerville, Massachusetts.
 The company was founded in 1980 by Larry O'Toole.
 In its over 30-year existence, it has expanded from a single truck business in Massachusetts to opening offices across the United States, including New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Washington state, California, Chicago, Philadelphia, and its newest office in Miami, Florida.
 The company won the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award in 2002.
 On July 1, 2008, Gentle Giant announced its further expansion by purchasing the Seattle-based residential moving company TempStore Moving Company.
Business model patterns are reusable business model architectural components, which can be used in generating a new business model.
 In the process of new business model generation, the business model innovator can use one or more of these patterns to creating a new business model.
 Each of these patterns has similarities in characteristics, business model building blocks arrangements and behaviors.
 Alexander Osterwalder call these similarities the "business model pattern".
Aspen Dental Management, Inc. (ADMI) is a dental support organization (DSO)— a dental practice management corporation that provides business support and administrative services to contracted dental practices using the Aspen Dental brand.
 By 2016 Aspen Dental offered services in 33 states with 550 franchised dental facilities that serve over 15,000 patients a day.
 Its headquarters is in DeWitt, New York, East Syracuse.
 In the United States corporate dentistry or corporate dental practices such as Aspen's represents 30–40% of all dental practices.
 The United States Senate Committee on Finance, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, Frontline in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and the New York Times — among others — questioned Aspen's business model.
 Concerns included Aspen Dental's alleged targeting of older, low-income earners with unnecessary and costly services—offering them a finance program without fully disclosing the terms.
 In 2015 the private equity firm, American Securities led Aspen's recapitalization in partnership with Ares Management, Leonard Green & Partners and the existing management team.
Mary Ellen Sheets (born 1940) is the founder of Two Men and a Truck, a moving company located in Lansing, Michigan.
This is a list of pizza restaurant franchises.
 Franchising is the practice of the right to use a firm's successful business model and brand for a prescribed period of time.
MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery is a chain of independently owned and operated franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and other desserts.
 It is a franchise brand in the portfolio of Global Franchise Group.
 The first MaggieMoo's opened in 1989 in Kansas City, Kansas.
 According to the MaggieMoo's website, there are currently 49 locations in 23 states, Singapore, and Puerto Rico; at its peak, the brand had 400 stores.
 The brand had a goal of opening over 1,000 stores.
 Considering the brand's contraction, this goal now seems untenable.
 The brand's parent company, Global Franchise Group, has removed all franchising information for the brand from their website.
 The brand's headquarters are in unincorporated Fulton County, Georgia.
 When MaggieMoo's was an independent company, it had its headquarters in the Columbia CDP, unincorporated Howard County, Maryland.
College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving is a North American junk removal and moving company with headquarters in Tampa, Florida.
 The company provides junk removal, local and long distance full service moving and office relocation services including in home donation pickup services for non-profit partner organizations.
 The company became operational in 2005 and began franchising in 2007.
Limitation periods in Irish law are set out in a variety of statutes and in judicial decisions but primarily the limitations applying to civil actions are set out in the Statute of Limitations, 1957 and the Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act, 1991.
 These statutes impose a limit on the right of action so that after a prescribed period any action will be time barred.
 A list of cause of actions affected are listed under part two of the Statute of Limitations 1957.
Franchising is the practice of the right to use a firm's business model and brand for a prescribed period of time.
 The word "franchise" is of Anglo-French derivation—from "franc", meaning free—and is used both as a noun and as a (transitive) verb.