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Quality homecare provider Right at Home swept the board at the franchise industry awards this week, picking up three national accolades including the prestigious Franchisor of the Year Gold at the bfa HSBC Franchise Awards. This year saw UK franchising’s two leading national awards presented at the same event – the British Franchise Association (bfa)’s annual conference – after their organisers launched a new partnership earlier this year. The conference took place at the Vox, Birmingham, on 30...

Leading pizza delivery franchise brand Papa John’s is celebrating after is was ranked as one of the UK’s top franchises. This year witnessed hundreds of entries across every franchise sector and the pizza franchise giant, Papa John’s has been ranked sixth overall, in the prestigious Elite Franchise Top 100 (EF100) – a title the pizza franchise giant will hold for the duration of 2022.The Elite Franchise 100, which was established in 2017 in association with HSBC, recognises the sector’s leading...

diddi dance picks up more prestigious awards by winning at What's on 4 Kids Awards night.Last Thursday diddi dance had the honour of attending a truly magical evening at the Warner Bros. Studios Tour London where the What’s On 4 Kids Awards 2021 took place celebrating the children’s activities industry, with headline sponsor Morton Michel.diddi dance are absolutely thrilled to announce that Anne-Marie Martin, founder of diddi dance, won ‘Industry Champion of the Year’ award and was highly commen...

Franchise Brands plc, a multi-brand franchisor, and today it is pleased to announce the acquisition of Azura Group Ltd (“Azura”), a leading franchise management software system developer, for a gross consideration of £1,000,000 in a combination of cash and shares within the Franchise Brands group.Having worked in partnership with Azura in recent years, this addition enables the Group to consolidate its software development and secure ownership of the related intellectual property (“IP”) created...

With a 3.75% increase in fee income, up from £45.3m to £47m, The TaxAssist Accountants Franchise Group is the 22nd largest accounting provider within the UK, as recorded by the highly regarded Accountancy Age industry league table.Celebrating excellence in accountancy practice, the Accountancy Age Top 50+50 spotlights the top accountancy providers in the UK, ranking them according to UK fee income for the last financial year.Daren Moore FCCA, Group Commercial Director at the TaxAssist Group, sai...

Premier League football club, Burnley F.C. is pleased to announce its new exciting collaboration with global pizza franchise chain, Papa John’s Pizza. The established Premier League outfit has introduced a new mobile food unit to serve up the delicious Papa John’s franchise top-quality pizzas to supporters in attendance at home matches at Turf Moor. Stuart Hunt, director of Burnley Football Club explains: “As president of PJ Restaurants, together with my valued team, we own and operate...

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is a government-funded programme that provides schools access to high-quality tutoring, at a heavily subsidised rate, to support students whose education has been affected by school closures from the pandemic. With the launch of the NTP to help students catch up from lost learning, it’s clear that tutoring is becoming a critical part of mainstream education. This government tuition funding for schools represents a big opportunity for Tutor Doctor franchis...

The challenges over the past two years have left many with high expectations when it comes to online shopping experiences – so it comes as no surprise to see OSCAR Pet Foods responding with the launch of a newly designed and impressively responsive website.  The industry-leading pet food specialist remains driven when it comes to delivering customer satisfaction and this sleek and efficient new website offers customers much more. Specifically designed to enhance the shopping experience o...

TaxAssist Accountants can reveal that its many business development activities have led to record breaking new client lead numbers in 2021, despite the social and economic disruption caused by COVID-19. Online investment, advertising campaigns, new initiatives and content and promotional materials help to support franchisees’ growth and profitability through the pandemic. The sixteen strong Business Development team at the TaxAssist Accountants Support Centre, assisted by specialist marketing...

Ovenclean puts down its increased influencer marketing and TV advertising in order to achieve its most successful month on record for new customer enquiries.In October, Ovenclean, one of the UK’s original oven cleaning companies, recorded a 36 per cent increase in customer enquiries compared to the same time last year. This also equates to over £5K worth of work per franchisee being generated in just one month.Backed by an influencer campaign encouraging new customers to get their ovens cleaned...

Amazon are celebrating Women's Entrepreneurship Day by encouraging women to look at logistics as a potential career path. By breaking down barriers and removing any fear or doubt associated with the roles or job vacancies within the logistics industry, Amazon are holding a three part series of events that will be showcasing the rewarding and prosperous roles they can have within the logistics sector. They are going to be looking at topics such as 'Imposter Syndrome', 'Active Listening & ...

Husse UK, the global leader in pet food home delivery, have got an exciting opportunity available for you to join their internationally recognisable brand as a sub-master franchise.  Husse UK are hunting for a strong candidate based in England & Scotland to become a sub-master franchise (Mega Franchise) and take over all procedures of Husse in the area. As a Sub-Master you have the exclusive rights to Husse’s brand, system, and product range for your territory you create...