Case Studies

After 16 years as a Prison Officer, last September Graham Kerridge made the big decision that the time was right for a change, so took the opportunity to invest in an Ovenclean franchise and hasn’t looked back since!“In the event, the voluntary redundancy I had been offered was revoked, but I liked what I’d seen so much I accordingly booked myself onto one of Ovenclean’s ‘find-out-more’ franchise open days at their head office in the Midlands. It’s fair to say I was even more impressed with the...

We are Dave and Maureen from Barnard Castle in the North East, just over four years into our Trophy franchise covering predominately the County of Durham franchise area with small incursions into north Yorkshire and Tyne & Wear franchise territory.For a number of years I’d been self employed as a sales consultant representing a variety of companies. Maureen was a former BT senior account handler. Trophy as a franchise business allows Maureen and I to work together to build a business specialisin...

Driver Hire franchisee, Rod Halling, looked at 600 businesses before deciding to buy his Driver Hire recruitment business. His in-depth research is further confirmation that this B2B management franchise is one of the leaders in the franchise industry. “My search had three key criteria,” says Rod. “I was looking for: a proven business with realistic potential for further growth; it had to be in the South West area and I wanted something that followed a sound business model -- a lower risk, secur...

Two more Coffee-Bikers have started their franchise operations: Stefan Kiefer in Regensburg, Southern Germany and Dirk Steilen in Bremen, North Western Germany. Stefan Kiefer has always been passionate about riding a bicycle and he just loves a good cup of coffee. Hence, it is hardly surprising that he cycled all across Italy in the summer of 2015. Stefan was delighted by all the people enjoying their coffee specialities always and everywhere. At a later time he came across an article featuring...

A new franchise in the UK, Second Cup café in Birmingham opened last November. We interviewed the franchise owner, Jags Manhota, on what it means to open such a franchise and how the first half year went. The third franchise of Second Cup Coffee Company in the UK, this Birmingham café opened after existing franchise territories in London and Manchester. Additional franchise territories will open in Putney, Harrow, Cardiff and another one in London. Jags talks about the expansion plans:"Second C...

Julie and Alan Parry are over the moon with their OSCAR Pet Food Franchise, and with a product that has given them the chance to prove that OSCAR Franchise mean what they say. Alan began by saying, “Our decision to elope was the happiest day in sealing our future together, but in the case of one thing leading to another, OSCAR Pet Food Franchise has been the icing on the cake in helping us to become Franchise partners too. “From many different walks of life in my career - the army, the police f...

After relocating from Australia with his family in 2015, teacher Matt Kerr couldn’t face the thought of returning to a profession marred by red tape and bureaucracy. He did what many of us can only dream of doing and pursued his lifelong goal of business ownership through franchising! He’s now able to channel his passion for education into a community business that makes a real difference in the lives of local families. And he’s building a great future doing it. Matt has been running his own fra...

EnviroGroup’s franchisee in Lancashire is approaching his 12 month anniversary with the franchise and says he hasn’t looked back since he started.Graham Coulston-Herrmann, of Preston, has built up his franchise over the last year and has plans to get another van, more staff and extra territory within the franchise. Graham is a retired senior officer for the Lancashire Constabulary, he retired and started his own deep cleaning business, after noticing that some of the kitchens he was cleaning wer...

A CHANGE FOR THE BETTERWhile needing to consider his career options, Richard Hebden found security in the OSCAR pet food franchise when planning his future. Richard comments on why he decided to opt for the Oscar Franchise. “Working in the drinks industry, I was always close to the risk of redundancy. Fifteen years, with ten of those years in retail, and under the pressure of constant targets was very stressful. There's always something to learn and working in that environment certainly gave me...

As a sergeant in the Army Craig gained valuable leadership skills and went from being in charge of 40 soldiers, to becoming the director of the Stoke-on-Trent Signs Express Franchise.With some previous knowledge of the signs and graphics industry, Craig was keen to look at setting up a business in an area he already had an interest in. Craig commented, “I love this industry, it’s incredibly rewarding taking someone’s ideas for signs and graphics and make them in a reality. Seeing their faces whe...

What made you decide to join TaxAssist Accountants franchise?I qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young in 1990 working primarily within their small business team. As well as gaining valuable experience in practice post-qualification I subsequently spent more than 20 years in industry working in a number of SMEs across a variety of industry sectors. One of these sectors was Franchising with ChipsAway where I joined as Finance Director in 2006. I became Chief Executive in 2007 lea...

Martin Thomas, Franchisee for TaxAssist Accountants in Victoria Central London finally purchased his own business after 25 years of working for others. Martin's career was focused around him looking after the finance in the marketing services industry and always harboured ambitions of owning his very own business. Martin had vast experience in working for big players within the PR and marketing services industry that included Weber Shandwick and Burson Marsteller. Martin actually spent a number...