Case Studies

Denise and Scott Watson, Northwood Wokingtham FranchiseWhen we were considering purchasing the Northwood Wokingham franchise we had endless questions about how everything worked. Eventually those questions condensed down to how we would cope with learning the business whilst running it, what the employees were like, how they’d react to the change and how much support we’d receive from the franchise office. I’m happy to say that all these worries turned out to be unfounded.Due to a lengthy period...

Name: Lingam Raghulan Location: Maidenhead Date launched: 24th Aug 2015 Tell us a bit about yourself and what you were doing prior to setting up your Northwood franchise business?I was working for McDonald’s as an Operations Manager. I did this for best part of 20 years and was ultimately in-charge of a patch of restaurants located in London, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. Why did you go down the franchise route? And why did you choose Northwood?I always had a passion for property and wan...

Lee Eaton, owner of Signs Express (Manchester) and the 2015 winner of the BFA (British Franchise Association) Franchisee of the Year award, shares the secret to running a successful franchise... A recent survey, conducted on behalf of the BFA in conjunction with Natwest, revealed that the franchising industry in the UK is stronger than ever. It now contributes £15.1 billion to the UK economy every year – an increase of 46% over the past 10 years and an increase of 10% since 2013. However, this i...

Gary Ross - Bright & Beautiful Franchisee Gary Ross was previously working as a senior executive in Retail before investing in his franchise and chose Bright & Beautiful because it was a cost effective business model and the franchise fitted with his values and ethics.Becoming a Bright & Beautiful franchise owner has changed his life because he now has more time to spend with family & friends. This is more than just a cleaning franchise! Gary says,“The Bright & Beautiful franchise group are diff...

It’s hard to believe that we are only two and a half years in to this incredible journey with Trophy Pet Foods. Following becoming very disillusioned with traditional employment, Jen (a Life Assurance Administrator for Zurich) and I (a Quality Manager for Europe’s largest PCB distributor) reached the decision that we need to do “something” about it. That something became a yearlong search for a suitable option and at last Trophy!So after starting with 4 existing mail order customers, (which incl...

OSCAR franchise has been a big step for Abi Russell – at nineteen, and with the backup support of her parents, she is running her own franchise business, which she combines with the opportunity to gain a recognised qualification in pet nutrition. Abi's mother Julie was eager to explain, “As parents, we wanted to help secure a career for our daughter. We knew Abi didn't have the self-belief to face the realms of university while wondering what the future held after years of study.” Julie goes on...

'Growth and profit whilst doing something that I love. Not many people can say that!'At just 30 years old, former teacher Leon is one of the youngest franchisees in the Tutor Doctor network. But don’t be fooled into thinking that makes business ownership less of a commitment for him. On the contrary, thanks to his drive and ambition Leon already has 12 clients and hope to achieve a turnover well in excess of £100k for the year.Leon has been running his Tutor Doctor franchise in Poplar, east Lond...

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...