Steve Mills - MRI Network
Mr Steve Mills of MRINetwork - MRI Network was at the time of the events described here, the Managing Director of MRI Worldwide. He had the responsibility for the franchise control of many MRINetwork franchised offices around the globe. Since then, CDI Corporation (the owners of MRI Network) have split part of the Network into a master franchise. Steve Mills was then appointed to be CEO of MRINetwork Ltd., the master franchisee. That meant that Mr Steve Mills of MRINetwork then had day-to-day franchisor responsibility for all MRI franchises around the globe with exception of the USA and Japan. Bearing in mind that MRINetwork claim to be represented in 35 countries (source MRINetwork web site), that means that Mr Steve Mills was then overseeing the MRINetwork franchise control of 33 countries worldwide (or approximately 95% of the countries that MRINetwork is currently represented in). On 30th November 2007, Steve Mills resigned. He has returned to the USA and will remain within the MRINetwork family as President of Bannister International.
The issues that I am going to raise here are based on my personal experiences with Mr Steve Mills and knowledge subsequently gained from internal documents that MRI were forced to release during 'discovery' (the legal process that precedes litigation) and on Mr Steve Mill's personal affidavits recorded under oath in Ohio Courts during the same process. There are a substantial number of ethical franchise issues that I will be raising in detail, but too much for one communication. Consequently I shall be writing a number of letters to Roger H Ballou of CDI Corporation detailing these ethical franchise issues over the coming weeks and months. The issues discussed are based on factual events that took place with my interaction with MRI Network - MRINetwork, mainly Steve Mills and their parent company CDI Corporation. I invite readers to review the facts and for their own opinion about the franchise ethics of MRINetwork - MRI Network and CDI Corporation as franchisors. See if you believe that MRINetworks business practices are fair and reasonable as a franchisor. Consider why Roger H Ballou of CDI Corporation keeps sidestepping the ethical franchise issues.
You can read my open letters to Roger H Ballou about the issues surrounding Steve Mills of MRINetwork - MRI Network by clicking on the links below as they are added.
MRINetwork - MRI Network Misrepresentation over a number of Years
Read about the years of misrepresentation by MRI Network. Read how they represented someone who's franchise agreement had expired years earlier and who was in astonishing (and growing) arrears on franchise royalty payment was misrepresented for years as a genuine franchisee by MRINetwork. See how MRINetwork's senior management behaved when they knew a genuine franchisee who was mislead by MRI Network's misrepresentation was about to work with him in the false belief that he was regular MRINetwork franchisee. Form your own opinion on the ethics of MRI Network and the ethics of CDI Corporation as a global recruitment franchise organisation.
Steve Mills of MRINetwork - MRI Network Denies Responsibility
The facts are discussed around the consequences of the years of misrepresentation by MRINetwork leading to Steve Mills denial of responsibility. Roger H Ballou of CDI Corporation, owners of MRINetwork is asked if he denies responsibility too. Read the facts and form your own opinion on MRI Network ethics as a recruitment franchisor.
More to be added soon........