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Asher Expands SUBWAY Work with Macon Market
Asher is pleased to announce that it has added the SUBWAY® Restaurants market of Macon, Georgia, to its portfolio. This brings the total number of markets Asher serves to 63 and increases the restaurant count to more than 5,700. Asher is the No. 1 SUBWAY® franchise agency in the U.S. based on number of markets served.
Asher plans and places media; produces electronic broadcast; and creates outdoor, point-of-sale, in-store display, and other marketing materials for SUBWAY® Restaurants in the U.S. and on military bases in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere around the world. The agency services SUBWAY® from its home office in Fort Wayne, and from offices in Cary, North Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; Charleston, West Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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