Dairy Queen (DQ)

American Dairy Queen Corp. is partnering with a rapidly growing sports entertainment franchise.

International Dairy Queen, Inc. (IDQ) has tapped a food industry veteran to oversee its American and Canadian stores.

Shake Shack Inc. has added a restaurant veteran to its C-suite.

A TJ Maxx-anchored center in Brookfield, Wis., was acquired by Newport Capital Partners. Sale price of the 137,816-sq.-ft. property was not disclosed.

People in rural counties like yoga and gourmet burgers, too, but towns like Quincy, Illinois, don’t show up on the population density charts of many hot new franchising companies.

The Neighborhoods at Butler

Location: Gainesville, Fla.

Size: 2.1 million sq. ft. (1.75 million sq. ft. with an additional 350,000 sq. ft. under development)

Developer/Owner: Butler Enterprises

Grocery anchor: Publix (West), Publix (Central), Trader Joe’s, Aldi, plus sizeable food components in Walmart, Sam’s Club and Target. Adding Whole Foods to anchor Butler Town Center (under construction with a planned opening winter 2018).

In today’s news cycle, it’s become somewhat standard fare to read reports of a significant breach in the retail world. From Target to Neiman Marcus, UPS to eBay and even restaurants like P.F. Chang's and Dairy Queen, 2014 resulted in major retail breaches totaling 100 million credit cards and 313 million personal records. But it’s not just the big names that have targets on their backs; as Verizon’s 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report details: “the attack methods are becoming more varied, even against small businesses.”

Minneapolis – American Dairy Queen Corp. (ADQ) is doing its best to freeze out hackers and other security risks with a managed firewall solution from Netsurion. The remotely hosted platform helps ADQ provide security across a network of corporate and franchised stores.