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Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced its youngest franchisee, Abdul Kasana (27) has opened his fourth franchised store. The new centrally located franchise territory of Cleethorpes Papa John’s is on Grimsby Road and will employ around 20 local staff. Abdul who first joined the Company in 2016, also runs two Papa John’s in the franchise territory Nottingham plus one in Ilkeston.“I believe Cleethorpes represents a gap in the pizza market,” confirms former education consultant turn...

A review of business first quarter 2017 for the business networking franchise groupWe are pleased to announce that businesses across the country has grown this year through cooperation and contacts made as a result of networking and referral marketing.Business for Breakfast, the UK’s leading the referral marketing franchise platform, has grown its member base with new meetings launching across the country throughout the quarter. Through the cooperation of its members, new partnerships between me...

Trophy Pet Foods franchise, one of the World’s Ethical Brands as accredited by an independent audit by the Ethical Company Organisation.Our ethical accreditation is something we are incredibly proud of. The Ethical Company Organisation have designed a PR campaign around a new infographic from The Good Shopping Guide: ‘Celebrating the World’s Ethical Brands’, which includes Trophy Pet Foods. The Ethical Company Organisation say, 'Each year we publish an annual list of the world’s most and least e...

If you’ve been following our recent successes, you’ll know that we welcomed the dynamic Team Aujla in January to the Birmingham/Bromsgrove franchise territory, and the lovely Beverley Potts to the Teeside/Durham franchise territory in February.Now we have another addition to our OPC franchise family – the Cadwalladers!John and Michelle Cadwallader have purchased the North Wales franchise territory from previous franchisee Angela Lloyd – a longstanding franchisee with OPC. We’ll miss Angela and...

National award-winning property franchise HomeXperts are celebrating International Women’s Day by giving away a free franchise. A HomeXperts property franchise worth £10,000 will be up for grabs this week with one lucky future female entrepreneur taking the prize.Founder and Managing Director of HomeXperts property franchise group, Sussanne Chambers, is keen to find a franchising female in which to gift this opportunity of a lifetime. She described in a video about the offer, how she had always...

London 1-2-1 meetingsInterested in finding out more about joining the TaxAssist Accountants network?We will be hosting 1-2-1 meetings in London on the 31st March, to answer any questions you may have and discuss the benefits of joining the franchise network. The meeting will give you a taster of the Discovery Days we hold in Norwich. These meetings will last for 45 minutes and will be with Daren Tillson our Senior UK Recruitment Manager.The meeting will be a great opportunity to meet with us if...

Just wow… you’ll take note of the franchising sector after reading this piece. Before we get to the eye watering facts and figures, it’s imperative that you undertake thorough research before A) Deciding whether franchising is for you. B) What Franchise sector is right for you. &… C) What franchise offering meets your profile. Franchising is a truly wonderful concept, that in my opinion is underwhelmingly underrated, how often do you hear franchising pop up into a conversion? And we’re not...

Thirteen years after setting up small business franchise accountancy specialists TaxAssist Accountants in the franchise territory of Newbury, Richard Adams has handed the reins to local accountant Paul Greenan after a successful franchise resale.Paul, a qualified accountant, took over the business on Bartholomew Street in Newbury on 1st December, to look after the specialist small business needs of the local community. After working in various financial roles within the IT sector, Paul decided t...

What a start to the year!We just finished settling the Aujla Team in place in the franchise territory of Birmingham and we’re off to the franchise territory of Teeside/Durham to welcome the lovely Beverley Potts into the OPC greeting cards franchise family!Beverley has worked for the Durham County Council for over 14 years but has always yearned for a something she could do for herself and after a considerable amount of research; she decided that OPC was where she would be able to do just that –...

There’s another record trading year in the offing at leading recruitment franchise, Driver Hire. And that was reflected in the celebrations at this year’s annual conference, where the outstanding, award-winning individual performances of a quarter of its franchisees were recognised.Leading the way were franchisees from the Driver Hire franchise territory within Ayrshire & Dumfries. Following another outstanding performance, co-directors of the business, Donald McClymont and Gordon Hyslop, were o...

Richard Chatten QFP, International Support Officer at TaxAssist Accountants franchise group will be sharing his experience of providing support to a global network of franchisees, as a guest speaker at the International Franchising Symposium on 16th-17th March.Hosted by The British & International Franchise Associations with the European Franchise Federation, the event will be held at the prestigious Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London.With almost a decade of experience in the international...

ActionCOACH’s 2017 annual conference was one of their most successful to date with the largest group of franchise owners attending the two-day event in their 14-year history. Packed full of useful advice and fun activities, 120 franchise owners kicked off 2017 in style, planning to make this the best year ActionCOACH has ever had in the UK.All of the seminars were led by franchise owners sharing the most valuable insights and techniques to help grow their businesses. Franchise owner, Simon Buck,...