Subway Honors Franchisees And Developers

QSR magazine:

The SUBWAY restaurant chain announced that it has named six outstanding franchisees as recipients of its 2008 Franchisee of the Year awards and three highly respected members of its development community as recipients of its Development Agent of the Year awards during the company’s recent convention in Las Vegas.

This year’s SUBWAY Franchisee of the Year awards were presented to the overall winners of the multi-unit and single unit owner categories from North America and the chain’s international emerging and developed markets. Selected from among the chain’s more than 15,000 franchisees from around the world, the six recipients are: Morganna Barbosa of Brazil, Gustavo and Luis Ribeiro of Brazil, Christian Neipp and Monika Boden of Germany, Markku Jyrkiainen of Finland, Lyudmila Khononov of Brooklyn, New York, and Kent Yoder of Elkhart, Indiana.

“The franchisee is the heart and soul of the Subway family. We know that our success depends upon the initiative they take as individuals and their ability to work as a team. We take great pride in the hard work and effort made by the thousands of franchisees throughout the world and in the millions of customers that they serve,” says the SUBWAY restaurant chain’s Director of Development, Don Fertman.