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Ale brewers in Germany granted the exclusive privilege – which is what ‘franchise’ translates as in archaic French – to certain taverns to sell their ale in the 1840s. But it was the Singer Sewing Machine Company, which started granting distribution franchises in 1850, that was the precursor for the modern Franchise.
