There is actually a corporation named "Fran, Inc." What follows is a speculative account of its creation.
We recently sought out information regarding former Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione in the hopes of obtaining some of the top secret newsletter material. If not the newsletters themselves, then at least some of the pertaining correspondence. Predictably, this was a dead end.
But not, in the end, a fruitless endeavor. It turns out all the useful information we needed was right there in the first paragraph of the termination agreement:
This Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into this 21st day of November, 2007, between Dennis Franchione ("Franchione"), Fran, Inc.