A diverse range of businesses will compete for the biggest accolades in UK franchising after the British Franchise Association (bfa) revealed the shortlist for the bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards 2016.
“It’s the culture and people that make us No 1,” says Ruth Brown, Head of Franchise Development, Home Instead Senior Care. In this article we look at 5 reasons why we CAN say we ARE the UK’s number one homecare franchise.
The Trophy Pet Food franchise has continued its 2016 national growth with the announcement that 4 more new Trophy franchisees have joined the Trophy team in April.
TaxAssist Accountants is pleased to advise that it has launched its newly designed client and potential franchisee websites. Both sites have been redesigned with a clean new look, to improve the experience of users, and to enable clearer access to content from mobile devices.
Lloyd Evans and his team are celebrating a successful start to the year after seeing a dramatic increase in business. Lloyd, who has been a TaxAssist Accountants franchisee since 2012, services almost 700 individuals and small businesses from his two shops which cover Wolverhampton and Kingswinford in the West Midlands.
Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced franchisee Abdul Sattar Karami has opened the Company’s newest store in Hatfield. This takes Abdul’s portfolio of franchised Papa John’s to thirteen, including key locations such as: Harpenden, Leighton Buzzard, Hitchin, St Albans, Watford and Hemel-Hempstead.
The bfa/NatWest Franchise Survey 2015 has just been released and the findings are optimistic. In particular, franchising has contributed approximately £15.1 billion to the UK economy over the last 12 months and, of the franchises reviewed, the performances of these businesses have set a new benchmark with 97% profitability reported. To discover more about this thriving industry...
New research has shown the UK’s franchise sector is operating at record levels with all-time highs reported in turnover, employment and numbers of franchisee-owned businesses. Franchising contributed £15.1bn to the economy last year and employs 621,000 people, according to the independently researched British Franchise Association/NatWest Franchise Survey 2015. Both figures are up more than 10 per cent since 2013.
New research has shown the UK’s franchise sector is operating at record levels with all-time highs reported in turnover, employment and numbers of franchisee-owned businesses.
Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced the opening of the brand new Merthyr Tydfil store. Franchisees John O’Brien and brothers Clif and Dale Roberson are a trio of local school friends, turned entrepreneurs, who also plan to open three, further Papa John’s in Wales within the next year.