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When it comes to sales calls, the franchise recruitment team at Driver Hire within the Crewe franchise territory are leaders. And we’re not just talking locally; this is on a national scale. They recently collected Driver Hire’s National Sales & Recruitment winners’ award for topping the second (of three) 8-week competitions. “It’s all part of an annual incentive across the whole of the Driver Hire network designed to help each of us grow our business,” says joint franchisee, Lee Statham....

What is the end goal?The goal for any established business owner when considering franchising their pre-existing business is ‘expansion’. Franchising your business allows you to expand without incurring any risk of unnecessary debt or you won’t be using the cost of expansion against the equity of your business. In essence, any new recruited franchisees will in the first instance provide all of the required capital (franchise fee) to ensure they can adequately launch and operate one of your franc...

Newbury-based franchise owner, Mike Sheene, marked his three-year anniversary of running his professional domestic housekeeping franchise business, Bright & Beautiful, by celebrating the business’ expansion into Marlborough.Since taking over the successful franchise in 2016, Mike has doubled his workforce and now employs 30 local professional housekeepers, all DBS checked and working in teams of two and three to ensure reliability and client peace of mind. They provide a bespoke and tailored ser...

DREAM Doors’ six newest franchisees sold over £20,000 worth of kitchens within their first week of trading as Dream Doors Franchisees. Collectively, the franchise group turned over more than £125,000 in their first month with the UK’s #1 kitchen makeover franchise company. The new franchisees have launched territories within the Ayrshire franchise territory, Bolton franchise territory, Telford franchise territory and Dudley franchise territory and have taken over existing franchise resale terri...

With over 900 homes to clean and tidy every month across Cheshire and Greater Manchester, Bright & Beautiful Altrincham, part of the national domestic professional housekeeping franchise, is celebrating a significant milestone this month with its nine-year anniversary and 45% growth in turnover for this financial year. Award-winning franchisee, Faye Roddy, launched her franchise in 2010 and has since built a fully managed professional housekeeping service franchise with three office staff and 2...

Premier Education is the UK’s number 1 franchisor for delivering activities to schools. We’re at the forefront of providing sports, arts and wellbeing programmes to around 240,000 children a year. Since we were first established in 1999, we have a proven track record of building successful, multi-territory franchises throughout the UK. Thanks to our reputation, we have been able to partner with many sporting NGBs, including British Gymnastics and England Hockey. These partnerships mean we can g...

Bristol based Drain Doctor franchise, the UK's largest drain clearance and emergency plumbing franchise business, lent a helping hand for a third time to a newly adapted home in Barnstaple, Devon, for a family to be featured on BBC DIY SOS. Based within the Bristol franchise territory, Drain Doctor attended the Big Reveal on 1st August to welcome the well-deserved family into their new home.  They also had the opportunity to meet the family, as well as Nick Knowles and his DIY SOS team. T...

Yorkshire born and bred teacher Emma Bini has returned home to swap her career in education for a new national domestic housekeeping franchise business, Bright & Beautiful®, her designated franchise territory will be covering the areas of York, Wetherby, Boston Spa, Tadcaster and the surrounding areas. Prior to becoming a new franchisee for the cleaning franchise, Emma dedicated her time to teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) in secondary schools where she specialised in French and Spanish....

The state of the art ChipsAway auto repiar franchise Training Centre has been successfully assessed against the IMI Accreditation for approved centre and training standards, yet again! ChipsAway has received accreditation from the leading organisation for automotive learning and development, IMI, for its professional training processes, assessments and facilities. The ChipsAway training course is an IMI approved Quality Assured Programme [QAP] leading to a Quality Assured Award at the end [...

Holidaysplease has shrugged off any doom and gloom surrounding Brexit by recording its first ever week turning over more than £1 million. The number of homeworkers at the online agency has risen by around 15% since last January, but year-on-year sales are up 20% at the midway point of the month, said director Charles Duncombe. He said this was driven by repeat bookers with many of them seeking honeymoons and family holidays. Duncombe said: “The second week of January was our first even £...

Frank Milner is on a mission to change students’ lives. And following the study struggles he faced after his father’s death, you can bet it’s personal. Despite having already drained a bin’s worth of coffee cups, Frank Milner has poured a fresh one by the time he sits down to speak with us. “It’s been a very intense week,” he explains. “I flew over from India yesterday.” Sipping the hot brew in The Cavendish Hotel in London, the Tutor Doctor president reveals that the trip is part of the fran...

Despite the UK’s economy on the brink of recession, weakened by Brexit uncertainty, Drain Doctor, one of the UK’s largest drain clearance and emergency plumbing company, is optimistic about the growth of the industry having seen many of its businesses grow by a fifth in the first half of the year.Drain Doctor, which has over 60 franchise locations across the UK, has grown substantially in 2019 with an average increase of 20% from its top ten franchises when compared to the same period in 2018. M...