With a circulation of over 1.1 million as of 2003, Canadian Business has the largest paid circulation of any Canadian business magazine. It is published every second week, monthly in January, July and August. Its special annual issues include: the Rich 100 (highlighting the wealthiest Canadians), the Investor 500 (comparing the largest 500 publicly listed Canadian companies), All_Star Execs (about the best corporate executives), the MBA Report, and the Best and Worst Boards.
Its main direct competition comes from Report on Business Magazine, published by and inserted in The Globe and Mail newspaper, and National Post Business, formerly Financial Post Magazine, published by and inserted in the National Post newspaper.
Profit, targetting small and mid-sized businesses, is a sister title under the same ownership.
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Canadian Business (http://www.canadianbusiness.com/)
WSI's business is obviously directly related to the spectacular growth of the Internet, and to the growth of e-mail and websites, all vehicles that have revolutionized the way business is done in the twenty-first century.
In the food business, for example, the challenges of standardizing restaurant menus from one country to the next to respond to differing laws, cultures, religious requirements, ease of supply, etc. are intricate and expensive.
A restaurant business, for example, will require localized menus and translations of all printed items, a substantial expense to be sure, whereas in the case of an Internet-based business we have found that most items we distribute as a franchisor do not, in fact, need to be translated for all franchisees.