Home Instead is delighted that their franchisees in Sheffield and Barnsley, Jill and Bryn Evans, have just celebrated 15 years in business.
With the furlough scheme now ended, there are widespread fears that business owners still unable to welcome back their pre-pandemic workforces will be forced to make mass redundancies leaving millions more out of work. But this isn’t the only scenario seeing people exit their roles. Many have used the forced lockdown to reflect on their careers, leaving them wondering whether positions with greater autonomy might offer a better work/life balance. Annabel Wilson, Franchise Support Manager at the B2C Division of Franchise Brands, which includes nationwide networks ChipsAway, Ovenclean and Barking Mad, comments on how people can use the learnings from the pandemic to find a role which better suits their forever-changed outlook and needs from a job.
Wilkins Chimney Sweep is celebrating 10 years as a franchise operation by releasing a commemorative eBook. Full of photos, facts, figures and funny stories, the eBook has been designed to highlight the company’s journey to franchising success over the last 10 years.
As the UK's only nationwide Assisted Transportation & Companionship service Driving Miss Daisy delivers a very unique service to people who find it difficult to get out and about and live their lives as they would wish for reasons of age, physical or mental disabilities or acute or chronic health conditions.
X-Press Legal Services, the largest independent property search franchise, is celebrating a number of new franchisees, renewals and expansions across the past year.
David and Sallyann Gray, owners of Petpals Darlington and Yarm, are celebrating being shortlisted for a national business award. The husband-and-wife team, who have been running their pet-care services business for 15 years, has been selected by an expert panel to be in the running for the British Franchise Association’s (bfa) HSBC Local Focus Franchisee of the Year award - for their outstanding contribution to the North Yorkshire and Tees Valley communities.
Care at home business, Caremark (Worcester & Malvern Hills) have been highly commended in the Midlands Business Awards, in the category of "Service Provider of The Year".
Despite the national lockdowns, 80% of No Letting Go franchisees who joined during 2020 have hit a minimum monthly revenue of £4000 by August 2021. Our Tees Valley office hit a monthly revenue of £10,000 in April this year, by providing an adaptable service during the changing landscape.
Meyers Estate Agents has been nominated for three major awards. The leading home-based estate agency franchise has been shortlisted for The Negotiator Awards 2021 in the categories: Community Champion of the Year and Regional Agency of the Year for the Southwest, while Meyers’ franchisee Brad Hansford has been nominated for New Agency of the Year.
Knowing your franchisor is true to their word can come with a badge of honour, thanks to the British Franchise Association’s qualification. And InXpress wears theirs with pride.