Brody Sweeney’s father was an “ideas guy”. A lawyer by training, he got bored quickly, dipped in and out of different enterprises, and had a habit of picking up curious hobbies – from collecting vintage cars to tracking down World War II flame throwers.  One of the ideas he stumbled across was franchising. Around 1980, without any experience in the sector or without anyone to manage the operation, he acquired the Irish franchise for Prontaprint, a UK-based print and copy shop chain. Sweeney, by his own admission not doing very well in college at the time, begged his father to…

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