Winmark Corporation Names Alan Majerko as Vice President, Corporate Development
January 18, 2017 at 12:16 pm EST
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Winmark Corporation announced that Alan Majerko has been named Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Majerko was with Buffalo Wild Wings for the past ten years, most recently as Director, Emerging Brands. Prior to that, he spent twelve years with Great Clips in marketing, financial analysis and franchise development roles. Mr. Majerko will lead an initiative to partner with emerging franchisors that can benefit from Winmark’s expertise in starting, growing and managing successful franchise brands. These efforts will be under the direction of Steve Murphy, Winmark’s President of Franchising.
Winmark Corporation is a franchising company. The Company offers licenses to operate franchises using the service marks Platoâs Closet, Once Upon A Child, Play It Again Sports, Style Encore, and Music Go Round. In addition, the Company sells point-of-sale system hardware to its franchisees and certain merchandise to its Play It Again Sports franchisees. It has developed an e-commerce platform that allows franchisees of its Music Go Round, Play It Again Sports and Style Encore brands to market and sell in-store product inventory online. It operates through the franchising segment, which franchises value-oriented retail store concepts that buy, sell and trade merchandise. It has over 1,319 franchises in operation in the United States and Canada and 2,800 available territories. It also operates as a middle-market equipment leasing business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Winmark Capital Corporation. Its subsidiaries also include Grow Biz Games, Inc., and Wirth Business Credit, Inc.