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20-February-2017

Papa John's smashes fundraising target for Save the Children

Papa John’s Pizza has raised a staggering £265,000 for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day in just six weeks over the festive period. The pizza-giant ‘dough-nated’ 50p to the children’s charity for every XXL pizza sold following its pledge to raise £250,000.

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14-February-2017

11th CQC Outstanding Rating for Home Instead Senior Care

Receiving the Outstanding Rating illustrates that franchisees don’t have to have a background in care to run a successful management franchise with Home Instead Senior Care. All the support, access to peer collaboration and expert counsel needed to steer a profitable business in the care sector is provided by Home Instead’s 42-strong National Office team and its 190-strong franchise family.

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14-February-2017

Preparing for the best year so far

ActionCOACH’s 2017 annual conference was one of their most successful to date with the largest group of franchise owners attending the two-day event in their 14-year history. Packed full of useful advice and fun activities, 120 franchise owners kicked off 2017 in style, planning to make this the best year ActionCOACH has ever had in the UK.

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14-February-2017

Bluebird Care provides home care across the whole of the South West England.

Bluebird Care are delighted to announce that they now provide home care and support services across the whole of the South West of England. Two current franchisees jointly purchased the last available territory of North and West Devon.

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14-February-2017

Papa John's turns-up the heat on marketing

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it has recruited two new marketing executives. Carrie Williams has now taken on responsibility for digital and social media and Fahmida Hussain who is focused on increasing local marketing support for franchisees. Both Carrie and Fahmida are based at Papa John’s European headquarters in Milton Keynes.

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14-February-2017

Signs Express Warrington gets fundraising off to a flying start

Signs Express (Warrington) has donated a generous £2,500 to Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) to kick start the team’s fundraising efforts. LJLA has vowed to raise £100,000 over the next 12 months for Alder Hey Children’s Charity, a cause that is also close to Signs Express (Warrington’s) heart.

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10-February-2017

InXpress franchise innovate again

Craig Atkins, franchise owner at InXpress Reading, has just expanded his business by adding a warehouse. The warehouse is designed for small e-commerce customers to free up their home space and store it at Craig’s premises where Craig and his team will also deal with dispatching their goods as the orders are completed. This is just one example of the ways in which franchisees can add additional revenue streams to their businesses in order to meet changes in market demand.

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07-February-2017

A Symposium not to be missed

Adam Thompson, Managing Director UK & Europe at InXpress will be speaking at the International Symposium on Franchising on 16th March. Adam will be sharing his knowledge of building and growing a business both nationally and internationally. His speaking slot ‘How to Enter the US Market’ will help to give other business owners inspiration and motivation to continue growing their businesses.

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07-February-2017

Trophy franchisees gain new visual aids to build sale success

Trophy Pet Food Ltd have been delivering their unique range of pet foods to pet owners homes as well as trade customers throughout the UK for 27 years now - British Made natural, premium foods of uncompromising quality.

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07-February-2017

TaxAssist moves up two places in Top 75 Accounting firms list

TaxAssist Accountants moved up two places from 24th into 22nd in Accountancy magazine’s Top 75 firms survey, with fee income continuing to grow for a seventh year running among the UK’s biggest accounting firms.

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