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Join Right at Home for an exclusive Discovery Evening with HSBC, to explore a management franchise that makes a really positive impact on your local community. Where? Crowne Plaza Hotel, Birmingham NEC, B40 1NT.When? Wednesday, October 12th from 6.30pm – 9.30pm. What?- An introduction to the Right at Home UK quality home care franchise- Financing a franchise – a short presentation by HSBC - Buffet, refreshments and a chance for one-on-one conversations.How? Pre-booking is essential as places are...

Nick Williams, an experienced franchise professional heads Ashtons Franchise Consulting, who are bfa affiliated experts, formed originally in 1981 and with decades of know how to shares some thoughts In principle, more or less every business, whether it is service, business to consumer, business to business, technical, professional or hospitality focussed can be franchised. But should you look to franchise your business? That’s the key question There is real opportunity when you grow a busines...

Franchising is one of three business strategies a company may use in capturing market share and to enhance its position with its competitors, in some cases franchising can be used to monopolise their sector. The others are company owned units or a combination of company owned and franchised units.Franchising is a business strategy for recruiting and retaining customers. It is a marketing system for creating an image in the minds of current and future customers about how the company's products an...

With our payroll franchise, you do not need to understand how to do payrolls or keep up to date with the latest legislation. Your only role is to visit businesses and get them to sign up to our fully-managed payroll service . Once you have done the hard work in securing the client, you get a recurring income stream from that client, without having to do any more work. Some accountants ask their clients to email or post them their payroll data. This is not secure & can be easily intercepted! Our...

ChipsAway, the UK’s original and market leading automotive franchise, is delighted to announce that demand for our services reached an all-time high in August, with a staggering 25,900 consumer leads being sent from Head Office out to the franchise network! ChipsAway is part of the Franchise Brands plc group which was listed on AIM on the 5th August 2016. Franchise Brands plc has a combined network of over 350 franchisees in 12 countries, but predominately operates in the UK.This astounding figu...

Sometimes the best things come in threes. That’s certainly the case at leading recruitment franchise, Driver Hire. They’ve recently calculated that growth in their nationwide franchise network is three times the franchise industry average. Figures from the bfa (British Franchise Association) show that, over the past five years, average turnover within the franchise industry has grown at 12%. By contrast, Driver Hire’s is 36% - three times greater.This impressive figure is reflected in individual...

Signs Express is the market leading sign and graphics franchise company in the UK and their network of over 60 centres is growing. With over 25 years of experience, this proven business model has some premium locations and franchise resale's of existing centres currently available. One such person who has taken advantage of the prosperous franchise and capitalised on the opportunity to buy an existing Signs Express franchise business in Telford is Martin Geddes-Smith. Buying an existing franch...

ActionCOACH welcomes three new recruits to the franchise support team to ensure over 150 franchise owners continue to be some of the most satisfied in the UK.“We’ve had such an uplift in enquiries for the franchise over the last two years, we wanted to ensure that we maintained the last few years of fantastic scores we’ve achieved with the Smith & Henderson Franchisee Satisfaction Benchmark Survey,” explains ActionCOACH’s UK Franchise Recruitment Director, Julie Wagstaff.Laura Thorburn takes on...

Louise Thompson joined Platinum Property Partners (PPP) franchise network in 2013 and now has a property portfolio of four Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in and around East London.What did you do prior to franchising?After leaving school I went on to train as a fashion designer at St. Martins College of Art and Design. Fashion had been a passion and a dream from an early age.After my degree I went on to do all sorts of jobs in fashion; from designing and styling for Virgin Records, working...

Out There Franchise, the local marketing company that launched its franchise opportunity in 2013 has grown to 23 active areas across the UK. With major national partnerships and an innovative new mobile app on the way the company has launched an innovative ‘pay as you earn’ franchise option in order to gain a greater national coverage.Managing Director Nicola Palmer said ‘Franchising has transformed our business. We have a great franchise network who are on target with our forecasts and who enjo...

The IPO raised £2.9m (net of expenses) and was well supported by both institutional and retail shareholders. I was particularly pleased with the level of support from our management team, employees and franchisees who subscribed for over 20% of the issue. I also note that none of the original shareholders who backed our buyout in 2008 sold any shares in the IPO process, meaning that all the net proceeds are available to the Group to support its ambitious growth plan.One of the key objectives of...

Research consultancy, Smith & Henderson, has recently completed a survey of 250 clients being coached by ActionCOACH franchise owners. Taking a cross section of clients from across industry sectors in the UK, the results show a staggering 94 per cent of business owners say their Action Coach makes a positive difference to their business.Data collected in a recent survey by Investec Private Banking found that a quarter of UK professionals are dissatisfied with their work-life balance. According t...