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OPC franchise network reaps benefit of new systemsWe’re barely past the half way mark of 2016 and already we’ve celebrated our 25th birthday, welcomed new franchisees, settled in Keith, our new Financial Controller, helped a number of our franchisees purchase their second territory and launched our long awaited cloud and iPad based consignment system - phew!We just caught our breath during Easter before we begun the roll-out of the new systems, ConsignPak and FAST, to our franchise network in Ma...

From Germany to the world. With a master franchisee in India, Coffee-Bike coffee franchise is continuing its steady franchise growth and lays the foundation for entering the Asian franchise market. The cooperation with GIAAN Corporate Services Private Ltd. gives the German coffee all-rounder the franchise opportunity to establish their Coffee-Bike franchise brand in Asia. Ritesh Manchanda, Gopal Mohan Gupta and Charanjit Singh Arora (and other business partners), having decades of experience in...

Wishes Nominated in the Greeting Card ‘Oscars’The Original Poster Company (OPC) franchise group is delighted to announce that its Wishes greeting card range has been nominated for Best Traditional Words and Sentiments Range at The Henries 2016.Over 40 top greeting card retailer buyers gave careful consideration to over 14,000 greeting card and wrap designs to arrive at the finalists for The Henries 2016 greeting card awards.“The Henries are the ultimate accolades for the UK greeting card industr...

ECO-FRIENDLY BUSINESS LAUNCH FOR GLASGOW MUM Lynn Hutchinson has spent the past 16 years playing a major role in one of the country’s most vital medical services, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS). But now she is swapping healthcare for housekeeping as she launches her own eco-friendly domestic homecare franchise business, Bright & Beautiful which will be creating a number of jobs for local women and men in Glasgow, through her housekeeping franchise. Now Lynn, will set up...

Continual Growth for Oven Cleaning FranchiseOven wizards Cleaning Franchise have had a fantastic first 6 months in 2016. A further 6 new franchisees have joined the franchise oven cleaning network, from the Scottish Borders in the North to the Isle of Wight in the South. In addition to this a 100% franchisee renewal rate has been achieved from existing franchisees wanting to sign up for a further term.Warwick Bean, who owns and operates his Franchise Territory on the Isle of Wight, wasn’t too su...

New Franchisee for Pet Food Franchise Group The Trophy Pet Food Franchise network continues to grow in 2016 as they welcome another new franchisee to the team. David Godding is now covering the Cotswolds area as his Franchise Territory, having received his franchise training last week, bringing more pet owners the chance to benefit from David’s free nutritional advice and free home delivery. David, an accountant by trade, is also very passionate about dogs and wanted to leave accountancy behind...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced Planet Ice, the largest ice leisure brand in Europe, has added a new Papa John’s in its Peterborough ice rink. Now Planet Ice’s coolest customers can enjoy the tasty combination of skating plus fresh, hot pizza in venues around the UK including: Milton Keynes, Uttoxeter, Coventry, Basingstoke and now Peterborough.Andreas Petrakas, brand business development manager, Planet Ice explains: “Planet Ice now serves one million customers a year across...

Scottish TaxAssist Accountants franchisees Renee Mackay and Janet Mclean celebrate successful year and shop openingCorstorphine, Edinburgh based TaxAssist Accountants franchise, is celebrating a great business year with strong client and team growth. The 12 strong team, which has been providing tax and accountancy advice and services to local businesses for six years, has seen a 38% growth year-on-year and now serves 875 small business clients across the region.As the flourishing accountancy fra...

Busy ‘Bs’‘A’ might be the first letter in the alphabet, but when it comes to selling franchises at the recruitment specialists Driver Hire, the letter ‘B’ is number one. Summer 2016 has seen three new franchisees snapping up opportunities in Barnsley, Blackburn and Bournemouth.Joining Driver Hire’s franchise network are Matt Robinson (Barnsley), Gary Pugh (Blackburn) and James Craven (Bournemouth). Matt previously worked in recruitment; Gary has a wealth of experience in parcel delivery gained w...

Seller Success Franchise benefits from Amazon Prime Day The second annual Prime Day was the biggest day ever for Amazon. Amazon today announced customer orders surpassed Prime Day 2015 by more than 60% worldwide and more than 50% in the U.S. It was also the biggest day ever for Amazon devices globally and record Prime Day for each Amazon device category including Fire TV, Fire tablets, Kindle e-readers and Alexa-enabled devices. Prime Day was a great savings day too - members globally saved more...

Oven Wizards are pleased to report that one of their franchisees has recently successfully realised his investment by selling his oven cleaning franchise business to another well-established franchisee within the franchises groups network. Kevin Brown, formerly the franchise business owner of the Oven Wizards franchise territory within Colchester, has sold his oven cleaning franchise to Ian Keddie, a fellow franchise business owner of Oven Wizards Dartford. Kevin said of his time with Oven Wiza...

Brokerplan Franchise NewsBridging lender Funding 365 has saved a borrowers buy-to-let portfolio from being sold at auction after delivering an £8.5m loan in just three working days.The borrower required a quick refinance to avoid a number of properties being sold as their high street lender had appointed an LPA receiver following a dispute.Mike Strange, Managing Director of Funding 365, said: “We are very pleased that we were able to help the borrower retain ownership of their property portfolio...