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TaxAssist Accountants Franchisee Barry McGougan reflects on 20 years of successfully building his franchise accountancy practice with TaxAssist Accountants. For accountancy franchisee Barry McGougan, franchising has been a real success story, enabling him to build a substantial franchise accountancy practice, close to his home in Galston in Western Scotland, which his daughter Lisa Foster has joined, with the aim of taking over later in the year. “When I look back to 2001, starting out as a fr...

Quality homecare franchise giant Right at Home has celebrated the launch of an additional three new franchise offices becoming fully operational, after they successfully completed the CQC registration process. UK care providers can only start to deliver personal care services once the industry regulator has completed a rigorous series of checks, to ensure they can deliver services safely and effectively. Right at Home has a dedicated franchise support team that coaches new franchisee and their...

Quality homecare franchise Right at Home has welcomed five new members of staff to its national support team, ensuring its franchisees benefit from an industry-leading support ratio. The Right at Home UK care franchise network is now approaching 70 franchise territories territories, operated by 63 franchisees, who are supported in all aspects of their franchise care business operation by a one to three ratio of National franchise support Office team. Between them they offer a wealth of experti...

OSCAR, the Pet Food Delivery franchise explain why teamwork and staying local promises continued success for 2021 and beyond for the leading pet franchise group. As lockdown continues, Leading pet franchise, OSCAR Pet Foods reflect on why the challenges of 2020 present its current network of franchisees with confidence for a bright and successful future with their respective franchise business.A winning combination of pet care being an essential business and franchising maintaining its long-hel...

To cater for demand, Lloyd Evans has moved to a larger and more prominent shop at 1-3 Moss Grove within the franchise territory of Kingswinford. Lloyd Evans joined TaxAssist Accountants franchise in 2012, and has, since then, gone on to build up a practice with more than 730 small business clients around the franchise territory that includes Halesowen, Wolverhampton and Kingswinford, alongside his team of eight staff. As part of his plans to expand his services in Kingswinford and surrounding...

Business for Sale - Honiton There is an opportunity to purchase a franchise business operating under the OSCAR Pet Foods banner. This job like more and more job roles these days is home based, OSCAR provides a pet care service that covers a wide range of benefits to pet owners, from British-made nutritious pet food, a comprehensive range of accessories and healthcare products to advice in nutrition and behaviour. Buying into a successful OSCAR franchise is an opportunity not to be missed,...

Are you looking to explore a new career opportunity in 2021, one that will allow you to finally fulfil that life-long ambition of becoming your own boss, but without the stress and complexities of building a new business from scratch? Buying into a well-established, thriving business model to become a franchise owner, would be a great pathway into self-employment, and that exact type of franchise opening is now available at Lakeland Verandahs, a decking, fencing and balustrades specialist that...

17 New franchisees join TaxAssist Accountants in 2020 Growth of franchise continues despite pandemic Throughout 2020, TaxAssist Accountants managed to continued its successful recruitment of new franchisees, with 17 new joiners, including two new partners to existing practices and one franchise resale, bringing the total number of franchise areas up to 244 in the UK. It also redesigned and hosted three virtual Initial Training Courses despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus...

As we head towards Brexit, with redundancies rising and an uncertain job market, figures published by the British Franchising Association confirm more and more people are seeking the security of being their own boss. It seems the shock of COVID and its devastating impact on employment figures is igniting many entrepreneurial sparks – and British franchising is fanning the flames. As one of the UK’s top pet industry franchisors, OSCAR Pet Foods know there are clear winners and losers in th...

Papa John’s Introduces Flexible Franchising Formats With 2020 well and truly behind us, going into 2021 Papa Johns the Leading pizza franchise has announced some new flexible franchising formats. Following the continued success of its franchised high street stores, Papa John’s is now aiming to expand its reach by providing even more convenience for customers, by opening in brand new locations such as holiday parks, stadiums, leisure attractions and other ‘non-traditional’ venues. Just...

Finding 'Dymonds' in the COVID environment Paul Dymond launched his Agency Express franchise in June 2020. Following a diverse career ranging from a Business Analyst for a FTSE 250 company to a local courier driver, Paul was ready for a new challenge and set his sights on becoming his own boss. He like many others, Paul had begun his journey in to franchising when the COVID-19 lockdown began, but confident in his decision to buy a franchise business and undeterred he continued on his path....

Meyers Estate Agents, the UK's first 24/7 home-based agency, have recruited three new franchisees as part of its new national recruitment drive.Meyers, which has been voted as in the top 3% of UK estate agencies, is focused on helping property owners sell fast with more affordable costs and was set up as a franchise seven years ago. Since launch, Meyers has instructed more than one billion pounds of properties and is looking to capitalise on the continued growth in the sector through further exp...