AKB48 is highly popular japanese girl group in East Asia. In the last decade, the franchise as expanded from 1 group to 5 groups all across Japan including 7 overseas groups accross the East. Many of their overseas groups have found that the AKB expansion has brought a great oppurtunity to for enpowerment to young girls and has created many promotion based on this. With plans to also expand to Mexico, we wish to also be apart of their expansion into the West by establishing the first US franchise, ATL48, based in Atlanta, Georgia.