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With the average span of time spent in a franchise across the industry being 8.5 years Chemex International will be celebrating one franchisee’s journey of a lifetime through three decades from the late Eighties to his contract renewal this month.It’s 1989 and tumultuous world events are unfolding with Britain in the Thatcher era, the Tiananmen Square uprising and the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the world changing a young dairy herdsman reading the Daily Mail also spots a piece on franchising...

David Hind has recently completed the initial franchise training with the First Vehicle Finance franchise team and starts the process of launching his vehicle and asset finance franchise business in the coming weeks. David comes from an IT Project Management background, but a shoulder injury meant that he couldn’t drive for a couple of years so had to change careers. David is now on the road to recovery, but the time out has helped him to assess his next steps and working for himself was what...

The Annual NatWest EWIF Awards event is over for another year, but the celebration of each of the category winners is only just beginning! Following on from an excellent event in London, here are the winners of this year’s awards for each category. We are Encouraging Women into Franchising (EWIF), an organisation focusing our time and energy on supporting women who are looking for a route into the franchising industry. Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower and one way we do this is by...

Bright & Beautiful, based within the Grays franchise territory is an ethical and eco-friendly professional housekeeping franchise business, hosted a tea party in April to reduce social isolation and loneliness for its elderly clients. Franchisee, Niamh Wakeling and her team of four housekeepers, invited more than a dozen of its elderly clients to a local café, May’s Catering Company, in Purfleet, Essex and threw them a lavish afternoon party of scrumptious cakes and sandwiches.  Not only...

Multi-award-winning chartered accountants and financial services franchise organisation, d&t, has announced it is helping performing arts franchisor Stagecoach optimise its performance and franchise network.  d&t, through its marketing partner Chantry, is currently working with Stagecoach to deliver a strategic franchise recruitment plan designed to broaden the appeal of the popular franchise to a wider marketplace, as part of its overall expansion throughout the UK. Dave Galvin, managing d...

To promote excellence in the UK, Neighbourly®, part of the world’s largest franchisor of home service brands, is raising the bar for quality and standards by streamlining its business processes and systems to increase efficiency and consistency across its six brands. Over the next coming months, Neighbourly will be looking to ensure all its UK brands are compliant and achieve ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 (International Organisation for Standardisation) accreditations in recognition of its...

Driver Hire, the leading specialist transport & logistics recruitment franchise, has been enjoying a successful spring in the London franchise territory, completing  two franchise re-sales and one greenfield territory covering the South West London franchise territory. Sisters, Sandy and Sindy Sohal are the latter. They are recruitment professionals with a combined 17 years’ experience, having both previously worked for London-based education sector recruiter, Smart Teachers. Commenti...

Less than a week since the Business Excellence Forum & Awards 2019 ended, 1,300 tickets for the 2020 event have already been reserved. A testament to the inspirational two-day conference organised by ActionCOACH, the 2020 Forum has secured Sir Bob Geldof to join their list of world-class speakers. Every year, ActionCOACH hosts the Business Excellence Forum & Awards to recognise and honour the innovation, passion, risk-taking and results of some of the best companies and business owners in the w...

There has never been a better time to look atfranchise opportunities with OSCAR with their exciting new launch of enhanced pet food, which places OSCAR at the height of nutritional excellence! Pet care lies at the heart of everything we do, and, here at OSCAR Pet Foods, we are in the fortunate position of being able to update our foods with the latest scientific developments in pet nutrition. Saying ‘thank you’ for the unconditional love that dogs bring into our lives isn’t easy but giving d...

Papa John’s, has announced it has teed-off with Abbeyford Leisure to bring the home of Pizza to the home of golf in St Andrews. The newest franchised Papa John’s store is located on Abbeyford Leisure’s St Andrews Holiday Park at Kinkell Braes, one of the most sought-after holiday locations on the east coast of Scotland. The new store will also deliver to residents of St Andrews, so the whole town benefits and not just the happy campers!David J Evans, chairman, Abbeyford Leisure explains: “As one...

Two of the Fizz Pop branches have made been named Finalist for the Prestigious Event Entertainment Awards. We have been chosen as a South West finalist for Best Entertainment Award at The Event Entertainment Awards 2019! David Reed Founder of Fizz Pop ScienceFizz Pop Science was set up by David Reed in 2011, after being made redundant. So it was then he decided to take control of his future and set up Fizz Pop Science, a company that has gone from strength to strength and has 9 branches th...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has named franchisee, Tofur Ali as the winner of the Highest Sale Growth Store 2018, for his Sheffield franchise territory pizza franchise store located on Prince of Wales Road.  The award win was announced at Papa John’s biggest ever UK franchise conference in Birmingham recently. Tofur Ali explains: “I was delighted with the award which underlines the hard work and commitment from every member of my team at the Prince of Wales, Sheffield store.&n...