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Perth-based business partners Steve Herlihy and Tricia Kingston are launching a new service for small business clients after acquiring the Master Franchise rights for TaxAssist Accountants in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.Keen to increase services within the buoyant small business sector, Steve and Tricia spotted the opportunity TaxAssist Accountants offers clients to benefit from standardised systems and processes, developments in integrated cloud-based technolog...

Bright & Beautiful domestic housekeeping services, part of the Dwyer Group, has appointed Julie Gelder as VP Operations to take the business into 2018, which it plans to make its most ambitious growth year to date. Launched in 2007, Bright & Beautiful now has 55 franchises nationwide, employing over 500 people, with a multi-million-pound turnover and delivering more than 10,000 home service cleans per month. In 2017 the company became part of the Dwyer Group, one of the world’s largest parent...

Danayal Zia had been advising clients for more than 17 years with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). He enjoyed the work but had lost the passion he once felt. When he found the ActionCOACH consultancy franchise, the buzz came back and he knew this was the franchise business for him. “My last assignment with the bank was in the City of London. The City culture just wasn’t for me and I started to look around for something different. When I came across ActionCOACH, I fell in love with the organisatio...

Everything great comes in tens, according to Clarriots Care who mark their 10 year anniversary in 2018! To celebrate 10 exciting years in business, Clarriots Care is offering new franchise owners £10,000 worth of specialist training equipment absolutely free as part of their franchise package to help get your new business off the ground. An Exciting Opportunity, 10 Years In The Making, Especially For You… This is an exciting business opportunity, packed with benefits for you and your...

Just a handful of months after taking over the Metro Rod van based franchise within the franchise territory of Aberdeen, Nick and Angela Langan, who also run hugely successful safety and compliance business ‘Safetest Compliance Services’, have started 2018 as they mean to go on, with expansion into franchise territories within Dundee and Perth, and the Highlands and Islands areas.Since becoming the new franchisees of Metro Rod Aberdeen last September, Nick and Angela got straight to work impleme...

Here Andy Hemming reveals his ‘warts ‘n’ all’ story of his decade with the ActionCOACH consultancy franchise, overcoming the 2008 recession and how he grew his franchise coaching business to £60,000 income a month on just three days’ work a fortnight, so he could free up time for his family. “After four years working in Hamburg on the global strategy for Nivea, I needed to move back to the UK to support my family - both my parents were diagnosed with cancer and we had been told my eldest son ha...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced franchisee and former mechanical engineer, Siddhartha Chirumamilla (Sid), has opened two more fast food franchise stores. The Franchise stores will be based within the franchise territories of  Falkirk north-east of Glasgow and Billericay in Essex, bringing Sid’s total Papa John’s portfolio of food franchise stores to 11 and he has plans to open more franchises before the end of the year.Sid explains: “I first experienced Papa John’s...

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Describing its offer as 'somewhere in between consultancy and coaching', the company provides hands on support to owners of small and medium sized enterprises in every sector. The Business Doctors Teeside franchise territory has been bought by former financial director Simon Grant. With a range of expertise from general management, HR, IT, supply chain management, internal audit, property management, acquisitions & mergers and fleet management, Simon will now use his internationally acquired s...

Clarriots Care Cheshire East, owned by Franchise Owners Paul & Jane Best, have been named as the 2017 winners of their top award ‘Franchise Of The Year’. We went to meet up with the team on their day of celebration. Paul Best, Managing Director of Clarriots Care from the Cheshire East franchise territory, his wife Jane Best and their franchise care team were presented with the trophy and certificates earlier this week. Reflecting on their success, Paul Best said:  “It’s a fantastic a...

If ever an OSCAR Pet Food franchise fell into the right hands it had to be those of franchisees Steve and Jill Tubbs! “Ten years ago, our lives were turned upside down when plans to close our shop/filling station and sell the property to redevelop a new business failed to work out,” Steve says, “The sale at least gave us time to consider retirement, and after one year we became restless: too young to give up work, too old to engage in employment. “That's when circumstances opened the door to f...

Surface Medic is a franchise team of professional repair specialists who can repair almost any internal or external surface...why replace when you can restore?About usSurface Medic is a team of professional repair specialists (franchisees) who can repair almost any internal or external surface. We use ultra-modern invisible repair techniques using highly advanced compounds, polymers and fillers which we then paint to perfectly match the surrounding area, even if that area is stone, glass, graine...