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Vic Ciuffetelli has over 30 years of business growth experience having worked as a CEO for firms across the globe including 17 years as Global CEO and CEO Asia-Pacific for ActionCOACH. When Ian Christelow, ActionCOACH’s UK co-founder, heard that Vic was considering stepping down and returning to his home in Australia to start his own ActionCOACH coaching firm, he presented a new challenge to Vic. “Working with ActionCOACH’s Global Founder, Brad Sugars, I had helped to grow the franchise into...

While banks and other financial services continue to close branches across the UK, TaxAssist Accountants has been seeing High Street franchise growth. Karl Sandall, Chief Executive Director of TaxAssist Accountants franchise, which has more than 200 shops across the UK, said having a high-street presence remained a key part of the company’s strategy to get its name known and attract business. "For us, having our shops in central locations means our services are easily accessible to local busin...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it is building on the strength of its management team in order to drive the continued development and acquisition of new stores opening across the UK. New appointments include: Aman Virk and Matthew Brennan as acquisition managers responsible for finding new Papa John’s franchise locations, while Andy Malthouse, Susan Henley and Sarah Dellow join the project team to oversee the building of new franchise stores. John Mott, who joined Pa...

The Pet franchise sector is booming and there’s no surprise when it was estimated that 40% of UK households have pets! For a pet based franchise, these numbers are really encouraging and show the true potential of setting up a pet based franchise business within the UK. This isn’t a fad, our love affair with pets is here for good.  As the UK moves closer to half of all households in the country owning pets, the pet industry will only continue to grow. This then opens a huge opportunity wit...

Richard Chatten QFP, International Support Manager at TaxAssist Accountants’ Support Centre in Norwich, joins an elite number of professionals granted the Diploma in Franchise Management. To gain the prestigious industry-recognised qualification, Richard spent two years studying all key aspects of franchise management through a series of franchise workshops delivered by Paul Monaghan DiFM QFP, of The Franchise Training Centre (pictured with Richard). Richard said:  “I’ve really enjoyed...

After six years providing tax and accountancy services to the small business community across Leicestershire, Tej Gawera has expanded his accountancy franchise practice with the opening of a new shopfront office in Syston.Tej Gawera set up his TaxAssist Accountants franchise within the franchise territory of Uppingham Road in Leicester in 2011, and now looks after more than 400 small businesses across the region. He opened his second accountancy franchise shop within the franchise territory of M...

National accountancy franchise TaxAssist Accountants was named winner of the prestigious Smith + Henderson ‘Best Franchise 2017 Award’ in the Business to Business category.The award comes off the back of a network-wide survey, in which franchisees were invited to complete an anonymous Franchise Satisfaction Benchmark survey. Franchisees were asked to rate the training and support provided by TaxAssist, the franchise system and their overall franchise ownership experience.Having already been awar...

2017 turned out to be quite a year for Preston-based OSCAR Pet Foods as they continued their successful expansion across the UK. Founded in 1990, and now market leaders in pet food home delivery, OSCAR has a wealth of experience in franchising and the pet industry. Franchise Training for the OSCAR network of franchisees is comprehensive and well documented. Delivered in a variety of formats including in-house, online and field, it also covers a range of topics from nutrition, accounting and ma...

Having successfully established TaxAssist Accountants in Gloucester 11 years ago and expanding into Cheltenham last year, Chris Hutchings has sold his business to Rob Little. This franchise resale is TaxAssist Accountants’ fourth in the last 12 months, highlighting that after more than 20 years of continuous growth, franchisees are starting to retire, or realise the asset they have grown. Rob has taken over the shops on Bristol Road in Gloucester, and Hewlett Road in Cheltenham, and will cont...

Samantha Skyring, previously one of TaxAssist’s Technical Managers, moves to new positionTaxAssist Accountants has strengthened the support for its 200-strong network of accountants with Samantha Skyring joining Steve Mack and Phil Jesse in the Franchise Development Team. Samantha, who is ACCA qualified joined TaxAssist Accountants in 2014, having previously worked as a senior accountant in practice. For the past three years, she has gained an in-depth knowledge of the network, delivered traini...

TaxAssist Accountants delighted to have been named as a finalist in the Business to Business category of The Best Franchise Awards 2017 Following its recent '5 Star Franchise Satisfaction Award' and as a result of feedback from its franchisees gathered by Smith + Henderson, TaxAssist Accountants has been named as a finalist in the 'Business to Business' category of The Best Franchise Awards 2017, sponsored by Lloyds Bank.Having taken part in the Franchise Satisfaction Benchmark survey earlier i...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it has opened a franchise unit within the franchise territory of Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Former pizza delivery driver: Siddhartha Chirumamilla (Sid), became a franchisee five years ago and runs Papa John’s in the South East of England plus the Scottish Rutherglen, Glenrothes and now Kirkcaldy. Sid has plans to open four further Papa John’s franchise units in Scotland over the next few months.Phil Gaffer, QFP, franchise sales & busine...