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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...

Three Driver Hire franchisees – in the franchise territories of Brighton, Cardiff and Gatwick – have recently completed franchise renewal agreements securing further five year business partnerships with the leading transport & logistics recruitment franchisor specialists. Franchising for over 30 years, Driver Hire recruitment franchise offices mainly provide temporary and permanent drivers and other logistics staff to local and national organisations in both the public and private sector. If th...

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...

Driver Hire, the leading specialist transport & logistics recruitment franchise, has been enjoying a successful spring in the London franchise territory, completing  two franchise re-sales and one greenfield territory covering the South West London franchise territory. Sisters, Sandy and Sindy Sohal are the latter. They are recruitment professionals with a combined 17 years’ experience, having both previously worked for London-based education sector recruiter, Smart Teachers. Commenti...

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...