Subway Bites

Subway is the world's largest submarine sandwich franchise, with more than 29,640 locations in 87 countries. Established in 1965 in Connecticut, its Australian headquarters are in Brisbane. It has an annual turnover of $600m.

• First Australian Subway store opens in Perth 1988
• Opening of 1000th store in Tarneit, Victoria: February 2007
• Franchise training centre in Brisbane launched in October 2000
• Regional head office opened in July 1999 in Brisbane with only a couple of staff. Today 40 staff are employed in the office.
• Subway healthy eating franchise brings on Adro, Australia's original biggest loser, as a brand ambassador in 2007 - to promote the '8 under 6g of fat or less' Sub range and the Fresh Fit menu launch
• There are about 10,000 different Subway sandwich combinations
• More than 12,000 staff work in 1060 stores in Australia
• Subway® was found to be the number one healthy QSR in the minds of Australian consumers - Research International study, October 2007
• The Subway franchise was named the top Global Franchising Opportunity by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2008

This article appears courtesy of Franchising Magazine