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Our franchisor interviews have been designed to give you an insight into specific franchise businesses and how they were started. By interviewing the franchisor, we can arm you with their perspective on areas such as the business itself, why they chose to go down the franchising route, their achievements and challenges, and what they look for in a successful franchisee - vital information for those considering franchising their own business or becoming a franchisee themselves.
Amrit Dhaliwal, CEO and Founder of Walfinch homecare talks about his background, why entrepreneurialism has always been in his blood (from running his own Italian restaurant to becoming a care franchisee), setting up Walfinch and ultimately franchising it, to the support they offer franchisees and his plans for the growth of Walfinch.
Ty Clarke’s passion for fitness first started from a very young age. “I started training because I suffered a lot with my self-confidence as throughout my adolescent years, I was a lot smaller than most of my contemporaries. I became obsessed with bettering myself which came from having a sporting background. I was often told I was ‘too weak’ or ‘too small’ to play my chosen sport. In 2020, during the Pandemic, I had the opportunity to purchase Paragon Gym and I have not looked back since.”
Chris Rocker is the Founder and CEO of Just Shutters. It was a 25 year career working for fitted furniture companies, that led Chris to start his own shutter business in 2006. Chris built Just Shutters to become a successful and strong regional brand, but it was listening to Duncan Bannatyne talk about franchising that gave him his lightbulb moment. In 2009, Chris launched his Just Shutters franchise. There are now 18 successful businesses across the UK and Just Shutters is now the largest independent retail specialist in the country.
Garry Brown is the franchisor of PHC Service, a vacuum repair and service franchise. PHC is the first of its kind in franchising. Whilst this unique business is new to franchising, PHC has been running successfully in the South East for over 34 years. Demand from beyond the South East has led Garry to look at franchising as a means of expanding his already successful repair business. Read more about Garry journey and this unique opportunity that is now looking for franchisees across the UK.
Before starting The Drain Guys, Gavin Dimmock was a franchisee for another drainage franchise. During this time, Gavin learned a lot about being a franchisee and being part of a franchise network. He has also learned everything he needed to know about drainage! In 2015, Gavin decided to start his own drainage business, The Drain Guys. The business has become so successful in the South East that demand for their services in areas they currently can’t cover, has led them to franchising. Gavin is now looking to share his knowledge of running a successful drainage business with likeminded individuals across the UK.
Syeda Kayanath has a lot of experience in hospitality as well as working with brands to develop their business and identity, so much so that she decided to use that experience to create a business of her own, Mowchi. “Mowchi was everything that represented me but also related to many consumers in this generation, a clean, sleek and minimal bubble tea brand with a unique USP of food and frozen yoghurt making Mowchi an entire experience.”
Fish and chip shops have always been a big part of Bek Halil’s life. Numerous members of his family have owned them over the years with his grandfather being one of the first migrants from Cyprus to enter the fish and chip trade. His mother established Beks in 1989 but wanted Bek to go to university and do something different. “I had a great career in banking as well as working for food safety and health and safety firms. Whilst I was learning within my profession, I was implementing all these strategies into my mother’s fish and chip business.” Whilst Bek originally got involved to formulate an exit strategy for his mother who was approaching retirement age, he soon realised that the business had grown to such a scale that there was an opportunity to develop it further. This has led them to franchising their proven model!
Awesome Chips has successful stores from Leicester to London. We spoke to Roni Dalal, founder and CEO of the company to find out about Awesome Chips’ recent push to grow as a franchise.
The Travel Franchise (TTF) is the UK’s fastest growing travel franchise. It enables anyone – regardless of previous experience – to follow their dreams and become a home-based travel consultant operating under its customer-facing Not Just Travel (NJT) brand. In this interview we talk to the founders, Paul Harrison and Steve Witt. Paul and Steve talk about why they set up the business, how the business has grown over the years, challenges they have faced, what makes it a great investment and what they look for in a franchise partner.
We spoke to Vincent Anthony, Managing Director of Propertynest to find out more about the growth of the business, working in the property industry and the benefits of being a Propertynest franchisee.
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