Lexicon
We provide you with a lexicon of the main technical terms used in organised trade. If you are looking for the definition of a term that is not included, you can use the contact section of the site to complete your information. To access the definition searched for, simply click on the word concerned, you will access the definition and content pages, very complete pages for certain terms, such as franchise for example.
A
- Assignment of lease rights
- Assignment of Franchise Agreement
- Approval clause
- Affiliate Commission
- Activity Exclusivity
- Advertising
B
- Bible (or operating manual)
- Branch agent manager (Article L 7321-2 of the Labour Code)
- Brand
- Brand License
- Brutal termination of established business relationships
C
- Central Purchasing
- Commercial leases
- Confidentiality clause
- Collaboration between franchisor and franchisees
- Counterfeiting
- Concession
- Cooperative
- Copyright
- Corner Franchise
- Comparative advertising
D
E
- Ensign
- Exclusive or near-exclusive procurement
- Exceptional lease
- European Code of Ethics for Franchising
- Entrance fee (or initial flat fee)
F
- French Franchise Federation (FFF)
- Franchisee Continuing Education
- Fraudulent trademark filing
- Franchise Agreement
- Franchise law
- Franchisee Initial Training
- Financial deductible
- Franchisor
- Franchisor Support
G
H
I
- Intuitu personae
- Industrial franchise
- Invalidity of the franchise agreement
- Imposed prices
- Intellectual property
K
L
M
- Mandate management
- Master Franchise and Master License
- Mandate of common interest
- Multi Franchisee
- Market research
- Minimum turnover
- Minimum Goal or Quota Clause
- Mandate Agreement
- Minimum sales prices charged
- Maximum imposed prices
- Merchant website
N
P
- Pluri-Franchise
- Pilot point
- Price tips
- Pledge of goodwill
- Patent
- Provisional accounts
- Precarious Occupation Agreement
- Pre-Contractual Information Document (PID)
R
- Royalty
- Requalification of the franchise contract into an employment contract
- Royalties
- Rental management
- Referral center
- Reservation contract
- Right of first refusal
S
- Succursalism
- Sales Promotion
- Significant Imbalance
- Selective distribution
- Sales Agent
- Sign Support Property Clause
- Service Deductible
T
- Traveler Representative and Placier
- Termination of Franchise Agreement
- Trademark filing
- Termination of Franchise Agreement
- Transfer of goodwill
- Transfer of networks
- Territorial exclusivity
U
V