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The University of Winchester recently invited the world’s largest franchisor of home serviced franchise brands, Neighbourly®, to an event by the Faculty of Business, Law and Digital Futures, of final year business students presenting their projects.  Over 20 students showcased their ideas and creativity to a panel of experts, including Joshua Barker and Daniela Healey of Neighbourly, and together they chose a worthy entrepreneurial winner who will now develop and launch their new busin...

The latest results are out from WorkBuzz, who have been gathering objective feedback from franchisees across 100 franchise brands since 2011, for their annual Franchisee Satisfaction Benchmark Survey. For the 7th consecutive year, ActionCOACH franchise partners have recorded 5-Star levels of satisfaction. Last year, ActionCOACH were joined by just three other franchisors who had achieved the 5-Star Franchisee Satisfaction status six years in a row. Now with 35 stars to their name, the world...

With the average span of time spent in a franchise across the industry being 8.5 years Chemex International will be celebrating one franchisee’s journey of a lifetime through three decades from the late Eighties to his contract renewal this month.It’s 1989 and tumultuous world events are unfolding with Britain in the Thatcher era, the Tiananmen Square uprising and the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the world changing a young dairy herdsman reading the Daily Mail also spots a piece on franchising...

The Drain Doctor Plumbing franchise network, part of Neighbourly – the world’s largest franchisor of home service brands, is celebrating 25 years in business, with plans to build on its success across the North West franchise territory.  franchisee Kevin Preston began his career at his grandad’s plumbing business in Blackpool and then went onto run it in 1994.  It was at this point that Kevin had a change in career, not industry, and bought a Drain Doctor franchise for his specific fr...

Less than a week since the Business Excellence Forum & Awards 2019 ended, 1,300 tickets for the 2020 event have already been reserved. A testament to the inspirational two-day conference organised by ActionCOACH, the 2020 Forum has secured Sir Bob Geldof to join their list of world-class speakers. Every year, ActionCOACH hosts the Business Excellence Forum & Awards to recognise and honour the innovation, passion, risk-taking and results of some of the best companies and business owners in the w...

The city of Manchester hosted Neighbourly’s third European Reunion from 27-30 March after being chosen over other European mainland destinations and brought together over 350 franchisees across eight brands from four countries, to collaborate, celebrate and have fun as one family. The 2019 theme ‘First Class’ celebrated the goals achieved and announced the new plans for all of the service brands in the year ahead. The convention was also a tribute to the world class service that the franchisees...